Tourism related papers at MESA 2023

[Waleed Hazbun]

Dear colleague and MESA attendees,

Planning for MESA I prepared a list of tourism-related MESA papers (or at least mention tourism in their abstracts) and thought I would share it.

I will not be able to attend all these papers, but I like to follow who is working on the topic. I will chair the III-12 panel noted below with 3 tourism related paper and welcome all to attend (it is unfortunately at 8:30 am on Friday).

Full details on all panels can be found at:
https://my-mesa.org/program

Of interest to some, I also continue to run an email list that is used exclusively to plan and publicize tourism related MESA panels. Let me know if you wish to add If not already.

https://groups.google.com/g/mena-tourism-net/


-Waleed



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2

3:00 pm

I-21 An Ethnography of Social Transformation in Saudi Arabia (By Philippe Thalmann)

I-24 Engendering the Tunisian Beach Vacation (By Dr. Claire T. Oueslati-Porter)

5:30 pm

II-7 Modernity, Identity, and the Architecture of Postcolonial Tourism in Downtown Tunis (By Dr. Daniel Coslett)

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3

8:30 am

III-12 Promising Baalbek: Tourism, Development & Anxieties in the Town of Baalbek, 1943-1975 (By Ms. Idun Hauge)

III-12 Iraqi Antiquities and Tourism Development, 1921-1932 (By Laith Shakir)

III-12 Tourism in Tunisia after Fifty Years of French Occupation: French Colonial Capitalism in Interwar Tunisia (By Juan Ramirez) [not able to attend]

III-12 Neoliberal Tourism: Difference, Desire and Dispossession in Revolutionary Cairo (By Dr. Elisa Wynne-Hughes)

III-24 “Whatever We Are Doing Here in Oman Goes Back to the Family”: Spatial Practices and Situational Identity of Young Urban Omani in Muscat (By Lara Cherbal)

11:00 am

IV-10 Between Renewal and Extraction: Ghiwanien Methodologies in Moroccan Heritage Pop (By Ms. Kendra Salois)

4:00 pm

VI-12 Counterinsurgent Urbanism: Mastering Heritage in Post-Conflict Diyarbakır (By Ronay Bakan)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4

11:00 am

VIII-9 Labor and Solidarity: Qatar's Campaign for the Arts at the 2022 World Cup (By Dr. Danielle Haque)

VIII-29 The Political Economy of Hosting Major Sports Events in the GCC: the Case of Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup (By Suzanne Morrison)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5

8:30 am

XI-15 Egypt in Palestine: National Participation at the 1933-34 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem (By Nadine Nour el Din)

11:00 am

XII-16 Introducing Stagecraft: The Case of Tourism Capitalism, Image Politics and Rule by Appearances in the Late Mubarak Era (By Karin Ahlberg)

XII-23 Drawn to Istanbul’s Distinctive Istiklal Caddesi, Will the Diversity Continue? (By Ms. Alison B. Snyder)

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Waleed Hazbun
Richard L. Chambers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Department of Political Science
University of Alabama
https://whazbun.people.ua.edu