Ana María Munar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana María Munar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana María |
| FAMILY NAME | Munar |
| SIGNATURE | MUNAR A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1887-2304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond the Smile
Central to the volunteer tourism experience is the encounter with the host community. Much of the existing literature privileges the voices of volunteers and organizations, with the perspectives of the local communities poorly represented. This study on the host–guest relationships of orphanage volunteer tourism in Nepal challenges the understanding of the stable and hierarchical configuration of power. It reflects on the multiplicity and particu…
Affective atmospheres in children’s museum experiences
Taking inspiration from ethnographic methods, this study presents the experiences of young children and their families, as they interact with a display at the Workers Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, analysing these through Ben Anderson's concept affective atmospheres. Adding to scholarship on emotion in leisure studies, the paper presents young visitor experiences as ongoing relational interactions between bodies, objects, and places, where atmosp…
Gender and Tourism Sustainability
This book examines the relationship between gender and sustainability in tourism. Whilst an extensive body of work exists in the areas of gender and sustainability, these two fields of knowledge are seldom combined to examine tourism phenomena. When we look at the evolution of tourism, we see that sustainability has become an essential element in educational programmes, policy making and strategic considerations for organisations and destinations…
Gender and tourism sustainability
It is long overdue for tourism research to move beyond the basic question of whether gender matters, because there is no humanity (or human phenomenon) without gender dimensions. Instead this article asks how does it matter? It does so by challenging tourism sustainability knowledges from the perspective of feminist epistemologies. It presents a broad and necessary conceptualization of gender which includes the spectrums of sex, sexuality, gender…
Digital Tourism Communication and Democracy
Political philosophy is applied to analyze the democratic potential of tourism social media. This study shows that while these media have deliberative potential, they also reflect the postpolitical and postdemocratic condition in tourism digital communication. This analysis is illustrated through the discussion of three metaphors: the menu, the stranger, and the tourist-light. The menu represents the increased invasion of lifeworlds by the commer…
Hybrid gender colonization
This study explores what can be learned from listening to and engaging deeply with muxes , the third gender of Mexico's indigenous Zapotec community. We examine indigenous peoples' forms of gender organizing, work, and activism through extensive fieldwork in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico and intellectual engagement with scholarship on gender, coloniality, and third space theory. The empirical case showcases how muxes organize and d…
Existential walking
Let me see new worlds through your eyes
Book review of: Asian Genders in Tourism / edited by Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore and Paolo Mura (Channel View Publications, 2016)
Tourism Research Paradigms
Surviving metamorphosis
Research Probe
Motivations for sharing tourism experiences through social media
Celebrating and Enhancing the Tourism Knowledge-based Platform
Tourism Social Media
This volume addresses the transformative power of tourism social media and offers novel theoretical and methodological approaches to its academic investigation. Acknowledging the collective value creation mechanisms of new media, the authors explore how technology nurtures, augments and modifies social or commercial interactions in tourism. The book emphasizes the role of fantasy and imagination in fluid tourism experiences and critically scrutin…
Digital Exhibitionism
Web 2.0 has expanded the possibilities of digital creative production by individuals and enabled the digitalisation of private life experiences. This study analyses how social media contributes to the making of personal biographies and discusses the shift towards a culture of digital exposure. This study uses netnography and a constructive approach to examine online communities and social networks. The findings illustrate that these new technolog…
Tourism Branding
Academic studies have predominantly treated destination branding as a marketing phenomenon that happens to involve tourists as customers in a marketplace. Tourism Branding: Communities in Action, the first volume in a new and exciting book series, considers a traditional marketing subject from multidisciplinary perspectives. Refreshingly this book attempts to free branding research and practice in tourism fields from the shackles of marketing tha…
Rethinking Globalization Theory in Tourism
Globalization has become the most popular term in social sciences since the beginning of the 21st century. The phenomenon is suffering under the paradox of inclusiveness and it is becoming clouded and useless. An effort to structure and focus on the meaning of the term is a necessity. The former debate between globalists and antiglobalists has shown to be a misleading one, and it is being surpassed by the study of three theoretical tendencies and…
Motivations for sharing tourism experiences through social media
Digital Exhibitionism
Web 2.0 has expanded the possibilities of digital creative production by individuals and enabled the digitalisation of private life experiences. This study analyses how social media contributes to the making of personal biographies and discusses the shift towards a culture of digital exposure. This study uses netnography and a constructive approach to examine online communities and social networks. The findings illustrate that these new technolog…
Hybrid gender colonization
This study explores what can be learned from listening to and engaging deeply with muxes , the third gender of Mexico's indigenous Zapotec community. We examine indigenous peoples' forms of gender organizing, work, and activism through extensive fieldwork in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico and intellectual engagement with scholarship on gender, coloniality, and third space theory. The empirical case showcases how muxes organize and d…
Existential walking
Affective atmospheres in children’s museum experiences
Taking inspiration from ethnographic methods, this study presents the experiences of young children and their families, as they interact with a display at the Workers Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, analysing these through Ben Anderson's concept affective atmospheres. Adding to scholarship on emotion in leisure studies, the paper presents young visitor experiences as ongoing relational interactions between bodies, objects, and places, where atmosp…
Rethinking Globalization Theory in Tourism
Globalization has become the most popular term in social sciences since the beginning of the 21st century. The phenomenon is suffering under the paradox of inclusiveness and it is becoming clouded and useless. An effort to structure and focus on the meaning of the term is a necessity. The former debate between globalists and antiglobalists has shown to be a misleading one, and it is being surpassed by the study of three theoretical tendencies and…
Tourism Branding
Academic studies have predominantly treated destination branding as a marketing phenomenon that happens to involve tourists as customers in a marketplace. Tourism Branding: Communities in Action, the first volume in a new and exciting book series, considers a traditional marketing subject from multidisciplinary perspectives. Refreshingly this book attempts to free branding research and practice in tourism fields from the shackles of marketing tha…
Digital Exhibitionism
Web 2.0 has expanded the possibilities of digital creative production by individuals and enabled the digitalisation of private life experiences. This study analyses how social media contributes to the making of personal biographies and discusses the shift towards a culture of digital exposure. This study uses netnography and a constructive approach to examine online communities and social networks. The findings illustrate that these new technolog…
Tourism Social Media
This volume addresses the transformative power of tourism social media and offers novel theoretical and methodological approaches to its academic investigation. Acknowledging the collective value creation mechanisms of new media, the authors explore how technology nurtures, augments and modifies social or commercial interactions in tourism. The book emphasizes the role of fantasy and imagination in fluid tourism experiences and critically scrutin…
Motivations for sharing tourism experiences through social media
Celebrating and Enhancing the Tourism Knowledge-based Platform
Tourism Research Paradigms
Surviving metamorphosis
Research Probe
Let me see new worlds through your eyes
Book review of: Asian Genders in Tourism / edited by Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore and Paolo Mura (Channel View Publications, 2016)
Existential walking
Gender and tourism sustainability
It is long overdue for tourism research to move beyond the basic question of whether gender matters, because there is no humanity (or human phenomenon) without gender dimensions. Instead this article asks how does it matter? It does so by challenging tourism sustainability knowledges from the perspective of feminist epistemologies. It presents a broad and necessary conceptualization of gender which includes the spectrums of sex, sexuality, gender…
Digital Tourism Communication and Democracy
Political philosophy is applied to analyze the democratic potential of tourism social media. This study shows that while these media have deliberative potential, they also reflect the postpolitical and postdemocratic condition in tourism digital communication. This analysis is illustrated through the discussion of three metaphors: the menu, the stranger, and the tourist-light. The menu represents the increased invasion of lifeworlds by the commer…
Hybrid gender colonization
This study explores what can be learned from listening to and engaging deeply with muxes , the third gender of Mexico's indigenous Zapotec community. We examine indigenous peoples' forms of gender organizing, work, and activism through extensive fieldwork in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico and intellectual engagement with scholarship on gender, coloniality, and third space theory. The empirical case showcases how muxes organize and d…
Gender and Tourism Sustainability
This book examines the relationship between gender and sustainability in tourism. Whilst an extensive body of work exists in the areas of gender and sustainability, these two fields of knowledge are seldom combined to examine tourism phenomena. When we look at the evolution of tourism, we see that sustainability has become an essential element in educational programmes, policy making and strategic considerations for organisations and destinations…
Beyond the Smile
Central to the volunteer tourism experience is the encounter with the host community. Much of the existing literature privileges the voices of volunteers and organizations, with the perspectives of the local communities poorly represented. This study on the host–guest relationships of orphanage volunteer tourism in Nepal challenges the understanding of the stable and hierarchical configuration of power. It reflects on the multiplicity and particu…
Affective atmospheres in children’s museum experiences
Taking inspiration from ethnographic methods, this study presents the experiences of young children and their families, as they interact with a display at the Workers Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, analysing these through Ben Anderson's concept affective atmospheres. Adding to scholarship on emotion in leisure studies, the paper presents young visitor experiences as ongoing relational interactions between bodies, objects, and places, where atmosp…
Sociology (11 works) · Tourism (10 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)