Can-Seng Ooi
Biographic Data
| ID | 72694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Can-Seng Ooi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Can-Seng |
| FAMILY NAME | Ooi |
| SIGNATURE | OOI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0824-3766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Constructing a Social Reality of Luck in the Art World
This article examines how artists attribute luck in their everyday lives and careers, and in particular to their artist lifestyle. Drawing on Berger and Luckmann’s Social Construction of Reality and Becker’s concept of art worlds, the study reveals the artists’ references to luck are socially meaningful acts and create a social reality of ‘being lucky’. It demonstrates that this social reality is shaped by and reinforces cultural narratives of wh…
Decolonisation as difficulty – dialogic analysis and institutional practice
It Is Not What You Know, but Who You Know”: The Challenges of Attracting and Retaining Talent in a Rural Australian Region
This paper investigates the social dynamics of rural regions and how these dynamics link to efforts to attract and retain creative talent. Research on talent attraction and in particular retention of in‐migrated talent in peripheral regions is still limited. Based on a case study in the Cradle Coast region of Tasmania, Australia, we argue that, although local stakeholders are working towards attracting more creative talent, they are also reproduc…
Managing tourism in Antarctica: Impacts, Forecasts, and Suitable Economic Instruments
Rapid growth in tourism to Antarctica has led the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties to launch a multi-year process to develop a framework for managing Antarctic tourism. Managing tourism in this region poses particular challenges, given the remoteness, ecological sensitivity and complex institutional systems. Approximately 65% of the current 120,000+ Antarctic cruise tourists travel on ‘expedition’ vessels that allow landfall. Landings are co…
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are key elements in the physical and biological Earth system. Human-induced climate change, and other human activities in the region, are leading to several potential interacting tipping points with major and irreversible consequences. Here, we examine eight potential physical, biological, chemical, and social Antarctic tipping points. These include ice sheets, ocean acidification, ocean circulation, species redi…
Affective values of cheese: Exploring producer sentiments of ‘felt value’ in Tasmania’s artisanal cheese industry
This article investigates producers’ sentiments of ‘felt value’ used to convey the sense of value of artisanal cheeses. Focusing on producers’ perspectives, the article explores three key windows into the affective value of cheese— storytelling , embodiment , and validation —as the settings where producers ‘felt value’ is attributed to products and conveyed to consumers. Ethnographic research was conducted in the Australian state of Tasmania betw…
Is Antarctica subject to overtourism? Views from expedition ship passengers and workers
The ethnographic turn in regenerative studies: Co-Creation as a Collaborative Learning Process
Purpose This study aims to establish that (1) an ethnographic turn in researching regenerative practices and processes is underway and (2) in engaging with regenerative practices and processes, ethnography itself is undergoing a regenerative turn. Design/methodology/approach To demonstrate how the paradigm shift toward regenerative practices across fields may translate into an equally regenerative approach in ethnographic research, this article d…
Restaurant food waste among Chinese consumers in a group context: An extended value-attitude-behaviour (VAB) hierarchy with information publicity
Purpose The objective of this study is to examine Chinese consumers' behavioural intentions to reduce restaurant food wastage (i.e. intentions to order moderate meal size, and to pack leftovers) in a group context from both psychological and cultural perspectives. Design/methodology/approach This paper used an online self-administered survey for data collection. The measurements were either adopted or adapted from prior studies on pro-environment…
Negotiating Entanglements and the Emotion Market: Tourism and Society Relations in Tasmania
This study draws lessons from Australia to suggest that tourism–society entanglements are negotiated, dynamically woven, and the processes may subvert established relations in tourism and society. Entanglements assume separateness, as in a compartmentalized reality. Yet, the processes of entanglement involve bargaining and are dynamic. We contend that entanglements between tourism and society are selectively negotiated within the emotion market. …
Entangling with Keith Hollinshead’s Work: A Tribute
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Chinese Outbound Tourists and the Changing Political Economies of Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore
The global tourism industry was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. New economic, social and political realities have emerged, and destinations are facing the changes. This research compares three popular destinations among Chinese tourists (i.e. Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore) to illuminate key political economic shifts of tourism in Southeast Asia in relation to China amid of the unfolding 'new normal.' By conducting a qualitative rev…
The microbiopolitics of artisanal cheese: A case study of Tasmania, Australia
This article investigates the "microbiopolitics" of artisanal cheesemaking as manifested in the use of pasteurized, raw (unpasteurized) milk, and plant-based varieties.Drawing on Heather Paxson's study of artisanal cheese in the United States, it examines how the microbiopolitics of conventional and alternative milks are produced, challenged, and redefined by artisanal cheesemakers.The research is based on qualitative, empirical research conducte…
They just get on with it: How innovating firms in a rural region navigate issues of market access
Autoethnographic reflections on creating inclusive and collaborative virtual places for academic research
PurposeThis paper explores the collaborative dynamics and dimensions within a virtual multi-cultural and interdisciplinary workplace. The study focusses on the use of online communication technologies to enhance social inclusion and networking within academia.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses an autoethnographic approach to draw on the personal experiences of a team of four scholars, including three early-career researchers and a senior …
Representing Sweden: Packaging Swedish identity through curators of Sweden
In 2011, the Swedish national tourism organisation, Visit Sweden, together with the Swedish Institute, launched a campaign – Curators of Sweden (CoS) – on Twitter, which ended in 2018. Each week a ‘Swedish’ person was chosen as a curator to tweet whatever they liked through the @Sweden account. All the curators were chosen because they represented ‘values, skills, and ideas’ which, according to the campaign, ‘all combined, makes up Sweden’. In th…
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry
Regenerative tourism has gained ground during the pandemic crisis as a set of practices and processes that have the potential to refashion the industry. Based on a co-created ethnographic case study focussing on a local restaurant in a popular tourism region in Tasmania, this study raises the question as to what business strategies offer opportunities for regenerative practices to materialise and mitigate concomitant challenges in a post-pandemic…
Natural disaster on Instagram: Examining representations of the 2018–2019 Tasmanian fires
This paper performs analysis of Instagram posts for the 2018–2019 Tasmanian wildfires to identify the key ways that locations were visually and textually represented. It identifies key themes and it looks at visual and photographic forms and genres typical of the survey. The findings add complexity to known ideas about mass media representations of natural disaster: whereas visual depictions of disaster are generally considered to represent traum…
Examining young Chinese consumers’ engagement in restaurant food waste mitigation from the perspective of cultural values and information publicity
The dialogic negotiation of justice
The purpose of the paper is to reveal the complexities of negotiating justice. We present the case of workers’ experiences during a long-running industrial dispute at Australia’s first legal casino. First, we consider the concept of justice, drawing on discussions from tourism studies. This notion is considered in relation to an industrial dispute at the casino. Second, we use Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination to explore the issues, primarily throug…
Cultural Complexity and Situated Mediation: Chinese Visitors at Port Arthur Historic Site
The tourism industry and research community are cognizant of the importance of mediation in creating desirable tourist experiences. This paper argues that the mediation process should not be general but needs to be situated, that is a tourism mediator must take into account the nature of the tourist product, the specific social and environmental circumstances of consumption, the background of tourists and the inter-personal dynamics during the ac…
Food safety and tourism in Singapore: Between microbial Russian roulette and Michelin stars
Drawing on multiple culinary traditions, foodways, and networksof trade, food is both good and important in Singapore. BrandSingapore relies on food culture to market itself to the world, butalso to its citizens. Hawker food, that is, street foods, are at thecore of that marketing, becoming a by-word for Singaporeanculinary culture. Cheap and delicious food was used to shiftSingapore from a stop-over to a destination. But this also reinforces ide…
The Changing Role of Tourism Policy in Singapore's Cultural Development: From Explicit to Insidious
In the last three decades, Singapore has transformed from a cultural desert to a global arts city, thanks significantly to tourism. The Singapore Tourism Board was proactively shaping the cultural dynamics and policy of Singapore until 2012. But since then its official role in the country's arts and cultural development almost disappeared. The disappearance of tourism interests in cultural development stems apparently from years of resistance, di…
Researching Chinese Tourists on the Move
Time is scarce for most tourists. This posts challenges for fieldworkers when conducting face-to-face interviews with them. This is particularly pertinent to Chinese tourists. This paper explores the use of the social media app WeChat for mitigating the time pressures faced by researchers and tourists as subjects. Hugely popular in China, WeChat has rarely been explored within the literature as a tool for data collection. This paper addresses thi…
Production and consumption of stories, images and fantasies: Heritage, screen and literary tourism
Heritage, screen and literary tourism , by Sheela Agarwal and Gareth Shaw, Bristol, Channel View Publications, 2018, 317 pp., USD49.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1845416232
Re-Investing Authenticity: Tourism, Place and Emotions
Political pragmatism and the creative economy: Singapore as a City for the Arts
Can the arts and culture prosper under a less than democratic political regime? This paper looks at the soft authoritarian Singaporean government and the making of Singapore into a ‘City for the Arts’. Many scholars advocate that a culturally vibrant and creative city must also celebrate diversity, tolerance and experimentation. This implies that a democratic space is needed for creative energies to flow. Singapore is not known for its democracy.…
State– Civil Society Relations and Tourism: Singaporeanizing Tourists, Touristifying Singapore
In Singapore, the government has been able to close, absorb, re-define and open up civil spaces. The line separating state and civil society is blurred. This article examines how tourism in Singapore has not only played a central role in shaping Singaporeans' own understanding of their national and ethnic identities, but it has also helped open up important civil and social spaces. This paper offers three examples — the re-branding of Singapore, …
Contrasting strategies
Autoethnographic reflections on creating inclusive and collaborative virtual places for academic research
PurposeThis paper explores the collaborative dynamics and dimensions within a virtual multi-cultural and interdisciplinary workplace. The study focusses on the use of online communication technologies to enhance social inclusion and networking within academia.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses an autoethnographic approach to draw on the personal experiences of a team of four scholars, including three early-career researchers and a senior …
Global aspirations and local talent: The development of creative higher education in Singapore
This paper explores higher education development and policy shifts inSingapore over the last decade, within a landscape of an increasingly globalisedcreative economy and international cultural policy transfer. Using qualitativeinterviews with key players in policy and higher education institutions, thepaper aims to explain the push and pull factors behind investment in creativehigher education. It considers the emerging dynamics and diverse patte…
Subjugated in the Creative Industries: The Fine Arts in Singapore
The arts and culture are considered core in a creative industries strategy. But the promotion of the creative industries brings about revised notions of creativity. These revised notions are being applied to the arts. Creativity is now seen to be largely manageable. All individuals are made to believe that they can be creative. Not only that, creativity is seen to be a money spinner. Workers should tap into their creativity and bring about innova…
Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism. Doing business differently in Tasmania’s regional hospitality industry
Regenerative tourism has gained ground during the pandemic crisis as a set of practices and processes that have the potential to refashion the industry. Based on a co-created ethnographic case study focussing on a local restaurant in a popular tourism region in Tasmania, this study raises the question as to what business strategies offer opportunities for regenerative practices to materialise and mitigate concomitant challenges in a post-pandemic…
Natural disaster on Instagram: Examining representations of the 2018–2019 Tasmanian fires
This paper performs analysis of Instagram posts for the 2018–2019 Tasmanian wildfires to identify the key ways that locations were visually and textually represented. It identifies key themes and it looks at visual and photographic forms and genres typical of the survey. The findings add complexity to known ideas about mass media representations of natural disaster: whereas visual depictions of disaster are generally considered to represent traum…
Food safety and tourism in Singapore: Between microbial Russian roulette and Michelin stars
Drawing on multiple culinary traditions, foodways, and networksof trade, food is both good and important in Singapore. BrandSingapore relies on food culture to market itself to the world, butalso to its citizens. Hawker food, that is, street foods, are at thecore of that marketing, becoming a by-word for Singaporeanculinary culture. Cheap and delicious food was used to shiftSingapore from a stop-over to a destination. But this also reinforces ide…
Culture, Work and Emotion
No abstract available
Un-Packing Packaged Cultures: Chinese-ness in International Business
Auto-communicating micro-Orientalism: Articulating ‘Denmark’ in China at the Shanghai Expo
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are key elements in the physical and biological Earth system. Human-induced climate change, and other human activities in the region, are leading to several potential interacting tipping points with major and irreversible consequences. Here, we examine eight potential physical, biological, chemical, and social Antarctic tipping points. These include ice sheets, ocean acidification, ocean circulation, species redi…
Affective values of cheese: Exploring producer sentiments of ‘felt value’ in Tasmania’s artisanal cheese industry
This article investigates producers’ sentiments of ‘felt value’ used to convey the sense of value of artisanal cheeses. Focusing on producers’ perspectives, the article explores three key windows into the affective value of cheese— storytelling , embodiment , and validation —as the settings where producers ‘felt value’ is attributed to products and conveyed to consumers. Ethnographic research was conducted in the Australian state of Tasmania betw…
They just get on with it: How innovating firms in a rural region navigate issues of market access
Examining young Chinese consumers’ engagement in restaurant food waste mitigation from the perspective of cultural values and information publicity
Cultural Complexity and Situated Mediation: Chinese Visitors at Port Arthur Historic Site
The tourism industry and research community are cognizant of the importance of mediation in creating desirable tourist experiences. This paper argues that the mediation process should not be general but needs to be situated, that is a tourism mediator must take into account the nature of the tourist product, the specific social and environmental circumstances of consumption, the background of tourists and the inter-personal dynamics during the ac…
Creativity Unbound - Policies, Government and the Creative Industries
No abstract available
Introduction: Stability, Risks and Opposition in Singapore
Contrasting strategies
Identities, museums, and tourism in Singapore: Think regionally, act locally
Udgivelsesdato: March
Introduction: Changing Asia
State– Civil Society Relations and Tourism: Singaporeanizing Tourists, Touristifying Singapore
In Singapore, the government has been able to close, absorb, re-define and open up civil spaces. The line separating state and civil society is blurred. This article examines how tourism in Singapore has not only played a central role in shaping Singaporeans' own understanding of their national and ethnic identities, but it has also helped open up important civil and social spaces. This paper offers three examples — the re-branding of Singapore, …
Introduction: Stability, Risks and Opposition in Singapore
Un-Packing Packaged Cultures: Chinese-ness in International Business
Introduction: The Business of Identity
Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore
Political pragmatism and the creative economy: Singapore as a City for the Arts
Can the arts and culture prosper under a less than democratic political regime? This paper looks at the soft authoritarian Singaporean government and the making of Singapore into a ‘City for the Arts’. Many scholars advocate that a culturally vibrant and creative city must also celebrate diversity, tolerance and experimentation. This implies that a democratic space is needed for creative energies to flow. Singapore is not known for its democracy.…
Re-Investing Authenticity: Tourism, Place and Emotions
Cacophony of Voices and Emotions: Dialogic of Buying and Selling art
The importance of galleries as go-betweens for artists and art buyers is acknowledged in art world research. Using a Bakhtinian dialogic approach, this article examines social encounters of three artists, two art buyers and one gallery sales executive in Singapore. Specifically, it looks into the social interactional dynamics of artists and art buyers when they trade directly. Situational ambiguities and emotional ambivalence arise during such me…
Culture, Work and Emotion
No abstract available
Subjugated in the Creative Industries: The Fine Arts in Singapore
The arts and culture are considered core in a creative industries strategy. But the promotion of the creative industries brings about revised notions of creativity. These revised notions are being applied to the arts. Creativity is now seen to be largely manageable. All individuals are made to believe that they can be creative. Not only that, creativity is seen to be a money spinner. Workers should tap into their creativity and bring about innova…
Creativity Unbound - Policies, Government and the Creative Industries
No abstract available
Awkward encounters and ethnography
Purpose Researchers rarely present accounts of their awkward encounters in ethnographies. Awkwardness, however, does matter and affects the ethnographic accounts we write and our understanding of social situations. The purpose is to bring these hidden sides of organizational ethnography to the fore, to discuss the consequences of ignoring awkward encounters, and to improve our understanding of organizational realities. Design/methodology/approach…
Auto-communicating micro-Orientalism: Articulating ‘Denmark’ in China at the Shanghai Expo
Poetics and Politics of the European Capital of Culture Project
The European Capital of Culture (ECoC) project was designed to promote European identity and integration. Hosting cities have since carried a variety of visions and objectives, ranging from the improvement of material infrastructure and urban revitalization, over the enhancement of cultural life to the alleviation of poverty through increasing employment, and the attraction of more tourists. This variety of hopes is repeatedly articulated, as cit…
Global aspirations and local talent: The development of creative higher education in Singapore
This paper explores higher education development and policy shifts inSingapore over the last decade, within a landscape of an increasingly globalisedcreative economy and international cultural policy transfer. Using qualitativeinterviews with key players in policy and higher education institutions, thepaper aims to explain the push and pull factors behind investment in creativehigher education. It considers the emerging dynamics and diverse patte…
The business of politics, commerce and culture in East Asia
Review of: "Cultural Policies in East Asia: Dynamics Between the State, Arts and Creative Industries". Edited by Hye-Kyung Lee and Lorraine Lim. Basingstoke: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2014. 229 pp
Production and consumption of stories, images and fantasies: Heritage, screen and literary tourism
Heritage, screen and literary tourism , by Sheela Agarwal and Gareth Shaw, Bristol, Channel View Publications, 2018, 317 pp., USD49.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1845416232
The Changing Role of Tourism Policy in Singapore's Cultural Development: From Explicit to Insidious
In the last three decades, Singapore has transformed from a cultural desert to a global arts city, thanks significantly to tourism. The Singapore Tourism Board was proactively shaping the cultural dynamics and policy of Singapore until 2012. But since then its official role in the country's arts and cultural development almost disappeared. The disappearance of tourism interests in cultural development stems apparently from years of resistance, di…
Researching Chinese Tourists on the Move
Time is scarce for most tourists. This posts challenges for fieldworkers when conducting face-to-face interviews with them. This is particularly pertinent to Chinese tourists. This paper explores the use of the social media app WeChat for mitigating the time pressures faced by researchers and tourists as subjects. Hugely popular in China, WeChat has rarely been explored within the literature as a tool for data collection. This paper addresses thi…
The dialogic negotiation of justice
The purpose of the paper is to reveal the complexities of negotiating justice. We present the case of workers’ experiences during a long-running industrial dispute at Australia’s first legal casino. First, we consider the concept of justice, drawing on discussions from tourism studies. This notion is considered in relation to an industrial dispute at the casino. Second, we use Bakhtin’s dialogic imagination to explore the issues, primarily throug…
Cultural Complexity and Situated Mediation: Chinese Visitors at Port Arthur Historic Site
The tourism industry and research community are cognizant of the importance of mediation in creating desirable tourist experiences. This paper argues that the mediation process should not be general but needs to be situated, that is a tourism mediator must take into account the nature of the tourist product, the specific social and environmental circumstances of consumption, the background of tourists and the inter-personal dynamics during the ac…
Food safety and tourism in Singapore: Between microbial Russian roulette and Michelin stars
Drawing on multiple culinary traditions, foodways, and networksof trade, food is both good and important in Singapore. BrandSingapore relies on food culture to market itself to the world, butalso to its citizens. Hawker food, that is, street foods, are at thecore of that marketing, becoming a by-word for Singaporeanculinary culture. Cheap and delicious food was used to shiftSingapore from a stop-over to a destination. But this also reinforces ide…
Sociology (27 works) · Political science (23 works) · Tourism (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (11 works)