Margaret Byrne Swain
Biographic Data
| ID | 186456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Byrne Swain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret Byrne |
| FAMILY NAME | Swain |
| SIGNATURE | SWAIN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Travels with Nelson
An intergenerational dialogue about gender in tourism
Where did the article “Gender in Tourism” (Swain, 1995) come from and where is it going? These questions shape our commentary which grew out of conversations by emails and Zoom meetings between Margaret Swain (Peg), Erica Wilson, Elaine Yang and Donna Chambers
Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches
It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting inn…
Myth Management in Tourism’s Imaginariums: Tales from Southwest China and Beyond
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Gender in tourism
The Cosmopolitan Hope of Tourism: Critical Action and Worldmaking Vistas
This paper examines the role and practice of cosmopolitan action – that is as a mediating vision which closely parallels the active discourse of worldmaking. Tourism is an industry built on distinctions between strangers and friends, with inherent potentials for both oppression and empowerment. Critical cosmopolitan theory offers ideas that give us hope for the progressive potential of tourism to transform differences into equity. In popular disc…
Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif
Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif contains…
Women producers of ethnic arts
Developing Ethnic Tourism in Yunnan, China: Shilin Sani
Yunnan Province is developing scenic, geographically distinct minority areas for tourism including Shilin, “limestone forest” home of the Sani ethnic group. The Sani provide an example of indigenous tourism, a subtype of ethnic tourism differentiated by the control a group exerts in marketing their own culture and territory, resulting in sustainable development. Worldwide, ethnic minorities involved in tourism must face a paradoxical push for cha…
Creating Modernity by Touring Paradise: Domestic Ethnic Tourism in Yunnan, China
After China's rapid economic and urban shifts, many Chinese tourists now seek out environmental beauty and prefer to travel outside of major urban centres to tour China's periphery. This desire often combines with a desire to tour the ‘Others’ within China's borders. China's southwestern province of Yunnan has cornered a large share of domestic tourists by successfully marketing itself as a land of exceptional environmental beauty as well ethnic …
An Ecofeminist Approach to Ecotourism Development
This paper raises the question of what an ecofeminist approach may contribute to ecotourism development. It addresses shared discourse in the international literatures of these distinct ecologically based fields of study. Concepts such as sustainability and environmental justice inform both bodies of work. We illustrate this through the words of ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and ecotourism researcher Tej Vir Singh. Uses of ecofeminist-based gender an…
Tourism and Gender: An Evolving Agenda
This introduction reflects on the gender agenda in tourism thus far and attempts to position the following collection of six papers within it. Drawing on the editors' earlier work advocating a gender-aware framework for re-conceptualization processes of change and development within tourism, it affirms the importance of gender studies in tourism by arguing that tourism experiences are grounded in, and influenced by, our collective understanding o…
An intergenerational dialogue about gender in tourism
Where did the article “Gender in Tourism” (Swain, 1995) come from and where is it going? These questions shape our commentary which grew out of conversations by emails and Zoom meetings between Margaret Swain (Peg), Erica Wilson, Elaine Yang and Donna Chambers
Kuan-yin Pilgrimage
Developing Ethnic Tourism in Yunnan, China: Shilin Sani
Yunnan Province is developing scenic, geographically distinct minority areas for tourism including Shilin, “limestone forest” home of the Sani ethnic group. The Sani provide an example of indigenous tourism, a subtype of ethnic tourism differentiated by the control a group exerts in marketing their own culture and territory, resulting in sustainable development. Worldwide, ethnic minorities involved in tourism must face a paradoxical push for cha…
Kuan-yin Pilgrimage
Lecture Summaries
Ten lecture summaries:The Excavations of the Baroque palace and garden of the Earls of Mar at AlloaThe Neolithic settlement of Eilean Domhnuill, Loch Olabhat, North UistThe furnishing of the Palace of Holyroodhouse for the French Princes in 1796Disease in Scotland's past: the evidence from the bonesScottish Place-Names: signposts to the pastThe Sources of the Early Medieval Animal Ornament of the British IslesThe Norse, the Northern Isles and the…
Women producers of ethnic arts
Gender in tourism
The Lochleven and Linlithgow hangings
Discusses the original location of the wall-hangings thought to have been made in an Edinburgh workshop in the early-seventeenth century
Coping with the Anthropology of Tourism
Coping with Tourists: European Reactions to Mass Tourism. Jeremy Boissevain. ed. Oxford, England: Berghahn Books, 1996. 264 pp.International Tourism: Identity and Change. Marie- Frangoise Lanfant, John B. Allcock. and Edward M. Bruner. eds. London: Sage Publications Ltd, 1995. 246 pp
Tourism and Gender: An Evolving Agenda
This introduction reflects on the gender agenda in tourism thus far and attempts to position the following collection of six papers within it. Drawing on the editors' earlier work advocating a gender-aware framework for re-conceptualization processes of change and development within tourism, it affirms the importance of gender studies in tourism by arguing that tourism experiences are grounded in, and influenced by, our collective understanding o…
An Ecofeminist Approach to Ecotourism Development
This paper raises the question of what an ecofeminist approach may contribute to ecotourism development. It addresses shared discourse in the international literatures of these distinct ecologically based fields of study. Concepts such as sustainability and environmental justice inform both bodies of work. We illustrate this through the words of ecofeminist Vandana Shiva and ecotourism researcher Tej Vir Singh. Uses of ecofeminist-based gender an…
Creating Modernity by Touring Paradise: Domestic Ethnic Tourism in Yunnan, China
After China's rapid economic and urban shifts, many Chinese tourists now seek out environmental beauty and prefer to travel outside of major urban centres to tour China's periphery. This desire often combines with a desire to tour the ‘Others’ within China's borders. China's southwestern province of Yunnan has cornered a large share of domestic tourists by successfully marketing itself as a land of exceptional environmental beauty as well ethnic …
The Cosmopolitan Hope of Tourism: Critical Action and Worldmaking Vistas
This paper examines the role and practice of cosmopolitan action – that is as a mediating vision which closely parallels the active discourse of worldmaking. Tourism is an industry built on distinctions between strangers and friends, with inherent potentials for both oppression and empowerment. Critical cosmopolitan theory offers ideas that give us hope for the progressive potential of tourism to transform differences into equity. In popular disc…
Pere Vial and the Gni-p'a: Orientalist Scholarship and the Christian Project
Civilizing projects of various ruling centers have formed a complex pattern of interactions with distinct linguistic/ethnic groups settled in Southwest China's peripheries.During the late nineteenth century, European and American missionaries introduced variations of the Christian civilizing project into the region (see Harrell, Introduction; and Cheung, this volume).Some of these missionaries were practitioners of Orientalist scholarship, which …
Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950
The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries. Although a diverse lot, all believed in objective, progressive, and universally valid science; a close association between scientific and humanistic knowledge; a lack of conflict between science and faith; and the union of the natural world and the world o…
Stereopticon: Entry to a life of travel and tourism research
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Political science (13 works) · Tourism (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works)