Luigi Tomassini
Biographic Data
| ID | 696918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luigi Tomassini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luigi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomassini |
| SIGNATURE | TOMASSINI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9660-966X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Animal ethnography and a relational approach to sustainability: Methodological challenges and opportunities in wildlife tourism
We adopted a collaborative research approach involving two tourism scholars, a biologist and a photojournalist to discuss ethnography and sustainability from a posthuman ecofeminist perspective. We focused on ethnography as a potentially fruitful methodology for supporting justice in wildlife tourism. We reviewed the literature on more-than-human methodologies, including emerging studies on animal ethnography, critical legitimacy and science issu…
Animal photojournalism and the animal gaze in tourism research
In this study, we explore the role of animal photojournalism in advancing our understanding and practice of animal in tourism by incorporating the animal gaze. Acknowledging that current literature lacks empirical tools to capture non-human perspectives – and largely reduces animals to passive objects – this study calls for the exploration, conceptualisation, and inclusion of the ‘animal gaze’ in tourism studies. We analyse extant literature in t…
Humour and comics for academic change and well-being
Considering recent calls for change towards a more liveable tourism academia, we combined \ncritical participatory action research with duoethnography to develop The Academic Line—a \nhumorous comic project about academic life. We used traditional theories of humour to leverage \nthe effectiveness of comics as communicative devices and explored how and to what extent our \nproject promoted solidarity, reflexivity, well-being, and change. This stu…
Posthumanism and animal geography: The case of Freya the walrus on media
Biodiversity loss, climate change and depletion of natural habitats urge a critical reflection on the human conceptualisation of wildlife space. Within the context of tourism, this study critically discusses the (lack of) space for wildlife in a sociological and physical space that is increasingly human, built, and touristified. Drawing on concepts of animal geography, this study adopts a posthuman lens to examine the media’s understanding and re…
Rethinking the space of tourism, its power-geometries, and spatial justice
This article critically reflects on the space of tourism and its intersection with spatial justice. Despite the urgency to embrace a more just, sustainable, tourism the space of tourism has not yet received a sufficiently forceful reflection. Our study contributes to filling that gap by proposing a novel theoretical framework that combines Massey’s spatial turn in the social sciences, with the posthuman, affirmative ethics of Braidotti, while dra…
Global Citizenship & Parrhesia in Small Values-Based Tourism Firms
In this paper we focus on the relationship between justice and tourism and the tension between consumerism and citizenship within the context of small values-based tourism firms. We combine Foucault’s concept of parrhesia, the speaking of “truth to power”, with Latour’s Actor-Network Theory to show how those businesses are situated in an interconnected world, where the global/local distinction is flattened. This qualitative study adopts a narrati…
The human gaze at animals and the missing animal gaze in tourism studies
This research letter critically reflects on the missing animal gaze in tourism studies and elaborates on the urgency of including it in the discussion about the relationship between human and non-human animals. Drawing on the Foucauldian gaze and on the John Urry’s tourist gaze, we reflect on the unproblematised power imbalance between human and animal gazes that is inherent in tourist representations. Inspired by posthuman thinking, we use featu…
Organisational effectiveness for ethical tourism action: A phronetic perspective
This paper explores how small tourism firms driven by an ethical approach to tourism narrate their organisational effectiveness. The study frames the ethical approach articulated in the first-person accounts of these firms’ owner-managers using Aristotle’s notion of phronesis, that is the process of identifying “good” actions consistent with living well and with an ethical telos. The research consists of a narrative approach via unstructured inte…
Circular economy, circular regenerative processes, agrowth and placemaking for tourism future
Purpose This conceptual paper explores the possibility to envision circular regenerative processes embracing agrowth and placemaking within tourism; an industry remarkably connected to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impacts on the planet. Drawing on theorisations of circular economy, on the concept of agrowth, and on theories of placemaking, this viewpoint offers a novel conceptual framework to imagine a regenerative future for tourism. Des…
The space of animal justice in wildlife sanctuaries: A Posthuman Perspective
The growing debate on the Anthropocene epoch urges a critical reflection on the relationship between human and non-human animals. This paper reflects on the space of animal justice in wildlife sanctuaries from a post-human perspective. Our perspective on wildlife sanctuaries relies on posthumanism and its potential in terms of offering both a new epistemology and a theoretical grounding for an approach to justice that is not anthropocentric. In s…
‘Doing the right thing’: Organizational effectiveness & phronesis in small tourism firms
Drawing upon the Drucker’s ([2006]. The effective executive. Harper Paperbacks.) definition of effectiveness as ‘doing the right thing’, this paper explores how small tourism firms driven by an ethical approach to tourism, here named as ‘values-based’, understand their organizational effectiveness. This study is guided by Aristotle’s notion of phronesis (practical wisdom) aimed at developing and exercising an attitude towards ‘good’ actions. Usin…
Reconnecting the space of tourism and citizenship: The case of tourists’ hubris
Purpose The rapid growth of tourism prior to the COVID-19 pandemic prompts the need for critical reflection of tourism’s “local-global” responsibility in the wake of that pandemic. Conceptually driven by the ancient Greek notion of hubris, this study reflects on the perception of tourists as actors disconnected from citizens’ necessities, safety and well-being. In so doing we develop further knowledge on the relationship between the spaces of tou…
The case for linguistic narrative analysis, illustrated studying small firms in tourism
We advocate the adoption of more expansive and creative methodological approaches the study of tourism. More specifically, we argue that by examining how individuals narrate their experiences and social practices, researchers can gain an insight into the meanings actors attach to their actions. Considered from this perspective, narratives become performative; they prompt actors to take actions that (they feel) actualise the story they are seeking…
Narrating values-based entrepreneurs in tourism
This paper adds to previous conceptualisations of lifestyle entrepreneurship in tourism by framing the identity construction of such enterprises in terms of their ethical commitment to global issues, social and economic inequalities, and radical criticism of neoliberal capitalism. The study addresses a gap in the tourism studies literature which usually conceptualises entrepreneurs as either commercially oriented or lifestyle oriented. Such dicho…
The novel spaces and power-geometries in tourism and hospitality after 2020 will belong to the 'local
The global crisis we have experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency challenges our perception of the global and local context in which we live, travel, and work. This crisis has spread nov
Pope Leo XII’s death: The twist to a longstanding dispute by novel historical documents and paleopathographic analysis
1829 after a short illness, particularly struck the public. Suspicions of poisoning or surgeon's guilt or inexperience and even the shadow of a venereal disease, contributed to create a "black legend" on his pontificate and death. On the contrary, the present paleopathographic analysis points toward a new conclusion. The regular use of catheterization with a silver syringe provided an easy access for bacterial superinfection, confirmed by the obs…
The co-creation of diverse values and paradigms in small values-based tourism firms
Although small firms characterise the tourism sector, there is currently insufficient critical understanding of firms that do not define themselves in commercial terms but through the non-profit values they pursue and the ethical vision they are committed to. This paper refers to such firms with the expression ‘values-based’ and examines their co-creation of diverse values and paradigms. Through a social constructionist perspective, the research …
Alberto Angrisani. Immagini della guerra di Libia. Album africano
The birth of the Italian Photographic Society
From the Renaissance until Unification in 1861, Italy was divided into a series of small independent states, each with a capital, a court, intellectuals and scientists, and structures for the dissemination of information and printed books. This context, which was marginal to the larger currents of thought, and the economic and scientific development in contemporary Europe, meant that Italy, in practice, was not involved in the critical phases of …
Esercito e città dall'unità agli anni trenta: Atti del Convegno nazionale di studi, Spoleto, 11-14 maggio 1988, volumes 1 and 2. Giovanni Antonelli
Industrial mobilization and the labour market in Italy during the first world war
On Industrial Mobilization in Italy the most important studies remain those edited in the I930S, when the classic work by Luigi Einaudi, La condotta economica e gli effetti sociali della guerra italiana (Bari and New Haven, I933) was published; and the more specific study by V. Franchini, La Mobilitazione Industriale dell'Italia in Guerra I9I5-18 (Rome, I932). Apart from their historiographical value the two works show the contrast between the la…
The novel spaces and power-geometries in tourism and hospitality after 2020 will belong to the 'local
The global crisis we have experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency challenges our perception of the global and local context in which we live, travel, and work. This crisis has spread nov
The case for linguistic narrative analysis, illustrated studying small firms in tourism
We advocate the adoption of more expansive and creative methodological approaches the study of tourism. More specifically, we argue that by examining how individuals narrate their experiences and social practices, researchers can gain an insight into the meanings actors attach to their actions. Considered from this perspective, narratives become performative; they prompt actors to take actions that (they feel) actualise the story they are seeking…
The space of animal justice in wildlife sanctuaries: A Posthuman Perspective
The growing debate on the Anthropocene epoch urges a critical reflection on the relationship between human and non-human animals. This paper reflects on the space of animal justice in wildlife sanctuaries from a post-human perspective. Our perspective on wildlife sanctuaries relies on posthumanism and its potential in terms of offering both a new epistemology and a theoretical grounding for an approach to justice that is not anthropocentric. In s…
The human gaze at animals and the missing animal gaze in tourism studies
This research letter critically reflects on the missing animal gaze in tourism studies and elaborates on the urgency of including it in the discussion about the relationship between human and non-human animals. Drawing on the Foucauldian gaze and on the John Urry’s tourist gaze, we reflect on the unproblematised power imbalance between human and animal gazes that is inherent in tourist representations. Inspired by posthuman thinking, we use featu…
Posthumanism and animal geography: The case of Freya the walrus on media
Biodiversity loss, climate change and depletion of natural habitats urge a critical reflection on the human conceptualisation of wildlife space. Within the context of tourism, this study critically discusses the (lack of) space for wildlife in a sociological and physical space that is increasingly human, built, and touristified. Drawing on concepts of animal geography, this study adopts a posthuman lens to examine the media’s understanding and re…
Narrating values-based entrepreneurs in tourism
This paper adds to previous conceptualisations of lifestyle entrepreneurship in tourism by framing the identity construction of such enterprises in terms of their ethical commitment to global issues, social and economic inequalities, and radical criticism of neoliberal capitalism. The study addresses a gap in the tourism studies literature which usually conceptualises entrepreneurs as either commercially oriented or lifestyle oriented. Such dicho…
Humour and comics for academic change and well-being
Considering recent calls for change towards a more liveable tourism academia, we combined \ncritical participatory action research with duoethnography to develop The Academic Line—a \nhumorous comic project about academic life. We used traditional theories of humour to leverage \nthe effectiveness of comics as communicative devices and explored how and to what extent our \nproject promoted solidarity, reflexivity, well-being, and change. This stu…
The co-creation of diverse values and paradigms in small values-based tourism firms
Although small firms characterise the tourism sector, there is currently insufficient critical understanding of firms that do not define themselves in commercial terms but through the non-profit values they pursue and the ethical vision they are committed to. This paper refers to such firms with the expression ‘values-based’ and examines their co-creation of diverse values and paradigms. Through a social constructionist perspective, the research …
Industrial mobilization and the labour market in Italy during the first world war
On Industrial Mobilization in Italy the most important studies remain those edited in the I930S, when the classic work by Luigi Einaudi, La condotta economica e gli effetti sociali della guerra italiana (Bari and New Haven, I933) was published; and the more specific study by V. Franchini, La Mobilitazione Industriale dell'Italia in Guerra I9I5-18 (Rome, I932). Apart from their historiographical value the two works show the contrast between the la…
Industrial mobilization and the labour market in Italy during the first world war
On Industrial Mobilization in Italy the most important studies remain those edited in the I930S, when the classic work by Luigi Einaudi, La condotta economica e gli effetti sociali della guerra italiana (Bari and New Haven, I933) was published; and the more specific study by V. Franchini, La Mobilitazione Industriale dell'Italia in Guerra I9I5-18 (Rome, I932). Apart from their historiographical value the two works show the contrast between the la…
Esercito e città dall'unità agli anni trenta: Atti del Convegno nazionale di studi, Spoleto, 11-14 maggio 1988, volumes 1 and 2. Giovanni Antonelli
The birth of the Italian Photographic Society
From the Renaissance until Unification in 1861, Italy was divided into a series of small independent states, each with a capital, a court, intellectuals and scientists, and structures for the dissemination of information and printed books. This context, which was marginal to the larger currents of thought, and the economic and scientific development in contemporary Europe, meant that Italy, in practice, was not involved in the critical phases of …
Alberto Angrisani. Immagini della guerra di Libia. Album africano
Pope Leo XII’s death: The twist to a longstanding dispute by novel historical documents and paleopathographic analysis
1829 after a short illness, particularly struck the public. Suspicions of poisoning or surgeon's guilt or inexperience and even the shadow of a venereal disease, contributed to create a "black legend" on his pontificate and death. On the contrary, the present paleopathographic analysis points toward a new conclusion. The regular use of catheterization with a silver syringe provided an easy access for bacterial superinfection, confirmed by the obs…
The co-creation of diverse values and paradigms in small values-based tourism firms
Although small firms characterise the tourism sector, there is currently insufficient critical understanding of firms that do not define themselves in commercial terms but through the non-profit values they pursue and the ethical vision they are committed to. This paper refers to such firms with the expression ‘values-based’ and examines their co-creation of diverse values and paradigms. Through a social constructionist perspective, the research …
Narrating values-based entrepreneurs in tourism
This paper adds to previous conceptualisations of lifestyle entrepreneurship in tourism by framing the identity construction of such enterprises in terms of their ethical commitment to global issues, social and economic inequalities, and radical criticism of neoliberal capitalism. The study addresses a gap in the tourism studies literature which usually conceptualises entrepreneurs as either commercially oriented or lifestyle oriented. Such dicho…
The novel spaces and power-geometries in tourism and hospitality after 2020 will belong to the 'local
The global crisis we have experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency challenges our perception of the global and local context in which we live, travel, and work. This crisis has spread nov
‘Doing the right thing’: Organizational effectiveness & phronesis in small tourism firms
Drawing upon the Drucker’s ([2006]. The effective executive. Harper Paperbacks.) definition of effectiveness as ‘doing the right thing’, this paper explores how small tourism firms driven by an ethical approach to tourism, here named as ‘values-based’, understand their organizational effectiveness. This study is guided by Aristotle’s notion of phronesis (practical wisdom) aimed at developing and exercising an attitude towards ‘good’ actions. Usin…
Reconnecting the space of tourism and citizenship: The case of tourists’ hubris
Purpose The rapid growth of tourism prior to the COVID-19 pandemic prompts the need for critical reflection of tourism’s “local-global” responsibility in the wake of that pandemic. Conceptually driven by the ancient Greek notion of hubris, this study reflects on the perception of tourists as actors disconnected from citizens’ necessities, safety and well-being. In so doing we develop further knowledge on the relationship between the spaces of tou…
The case for linguistic narrative analysis, illustrated studying small firms in tourism
We advocate the adoption of more expansive and creative methodological approaches the study of tourism. More specifically, we argue that by examining how individuals narrate their experiences and social practices, researchers can gain an insight into the meanings actors attach to their actions. Considered from this perspective, narratives become performative; they prompt actors to take actions that (they feel) actualise the story they are seeking…
Organisational effectiveness for ethical tourism action: A phronetic perspective
This paper explores how small tourism firms driven by an ethical approach to tourism narrate their organisational effectiveness. The study frames the ethical approach articulated in the first-person accounts of these firms’ owner-managers using Aristotle’s notion of phronesis, that is the process of identifying “good” actions consistent with living well and with an ethical telos. The research consists of a narrative approach via unstructured inte…
Circular economy, circular regenerative processes, agrowth and placemaking for tourism future
Purpose This conceptual paper explores the possibility to envision circular regenerative processes embracing agrowth and placemaking within tourism; an industry remarkably connected to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impacts on the planet. Drawing on theorisations of circular economy, on the concept of agrowth, and on theories of placemaking, this viewpoint offers a novel conceptual framework to imagine a regenerative future for tourism. Des…
The space of animal justice in wildlife sanctuaries: A Posthuman Perspective
The growing debate on the Anthropocene epoch urges a critical reflection on the relationship between human and non-human animals. This paper reflects on the space of animal justice in wildlife sanctuaries from a post-human perspective. Our perspective on wildlife sanctuaries relies on posthumanism and its potential in terms of offering both a new epistemology and a theoretical grounding for an approach to justice that is not anthropocentric. In s…
Rethinking the space of tourism, its power-geometries, and spatial justice
This article critically reflects on the space of tourism and its intersection with spatial justice. Despite the urgency to embrace a more just, sustainable, tourism the space of tourism has not yet received a sufficiently forceful reflection. Our study contributes to filling that gap by proposing a novel theoretical framework that combines Massey’s spatial turn in the social sciences, with the posthuman, affirmative ethics of Braidotti, while dra…
Global Citizenship & Parrhesia in Small Values-Based Tourism Firms
In this paper we focus on the relationship between justice and tourism and the tension between consumerism and citizenship within the context of small values-based tourism firms. We combine Foucault’s concept of parrhesia, the speaking of “truth to power”, with Latour’s Actor-Network Theory to show how those businesses are situated in an interconnected world, where the global/local distinction is flattened. This qualitative study adopts a narrati…
The human gaze at animals and the missing animal gaze in tourism studies
This research letter critically reflects on the missing animal gaze in tourism studies and elaborates on the urgency of including it in the discussion about the relationship between human and non-human animals. Drawing on the Foucauldian gaze and on the John Urry’s tourist gaze, we reflect on the unproblematised power imbalance between human and animal gazes that is inherent in tourist representations. Inspired by posthuman thinking, we use featu…
Humour and comics for academic change and well-being
Considering recent calls for change towards a more liveable tourism academia, we combined \ncritical participatory action research with duoethnography to develop The Academic Line—a \nhumorous comic project about academic life. We used traditional theories of humour to leverage \nthe effectiveness of comics as communicative devices and explored how and to what extent our \nproject promoted solidarity, reflexivity, well-being, and change. This stu…
Posthumanism and animal geography: The case of Freya the walrus on media
Biodiversity loss, climate change and depletion of natural habitats urge a critical reflection on the human conceptualisation of wildlife space. Within the context of tourism, this study critically discusses the (lack of) space for wildlife in a sociological and physical space that is increasingly human, built, and touristified. Drawing on concepts of animal geography, this study adopts a posthuman lens to examine the media’s understanding and re…
Animal photojournalism and the animal gaze in tourism research
In this study, we explore the role of animal photojournalism in advancing our understanding and practice of animal in tourism by incorporating the animal gaze. Acknowledging that current literature lacks empirical tools to capture non-human perspectives – and largely reduces animals to passive objects – this study calls for the exploration, conceptualisation, and inclusion of the ‘animal gaze’ in tourism studies. We analyse extant literature in t…
Animal ethnography and a relational approach to sustainability: Methodological challenges and opportunities in wildlife tourism
We adopted a collaborative research approach involving two tourism scholars, a biologist and a photojournalist to discuss ethnography and sustainability from a posthuman ecofeminist perspective. We focused on ethnography as a potentially fruitful methodology for supporting justice in wildlife tourism. We reviewed the literature on more-than-human methodologies, including emerging studies on animal ethnography, critical legitimacy and science issu…
Sociology (15 works) · Tourism (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (7 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works)