Joseph M Cheer
Biographic Data
| ID | 925257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph M Cheer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph M |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheer |
| SIGNATURE | CHEER J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wakayama University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5927-2615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Intersectional Emancipation for Biocultural Conservation: An Exploratory Neolocalism Framework
Ketchikan, Alaska, is a coastal gateway community that has experienced rapid changes, unearthing visceral realizations of biocultural vulnerabilities and bioregional interdependencies. Bordering the Tongass National Forest, the community embodies and endures complicated historicized impacts from neoliberalism, reproduced today by mass cruise tourism. During the COVID-19 global lockdown, remote field work was conducted employing qualitative, in-de…
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection
Evidence-informed decision-making in sustainable tourism: From Research to Action
On the Verge: The State-of-the-Art in tourism geographies
Rural revitalisation, rural tourism and countryside capital: A rural society redux
"Remembering "Hosts and Guests: A tribute to Valene Smith (1926-2024)
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: Towards a Decolonial Paradigm in Science and Practice
There is a growing scholarly interest in the potential of regenerative tourism approaches to address sustainability challenges. Drawing from an ecological worldview that interweaves Indigenous and Western knowledge systems, regenerative tourism approaches seek to increase the capacity of support systems for fulfilling net-positive social-ecological effects. We argue that Western scientific paradigms drive current tourism research methodologies an…
Recentering Tourism Geographies in the ‘Asian Century’
This book considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues in the world today, such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. The book critiques Anglo-Western centrism in tourism theory and calls on tourism scholars to make radical shifts toward more inclusive epistemology and praxis. From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s t…
Community art festivals and sustainable rural revitalisation
The links between art events and sustainable development in rural contexts where revitalisation is pressing is becoming increasingly obvious. The village of Mitarai is an example of a small peripheral community in Japan faced with the impacts of depopulation, ageing and socio-economic decline. The urgency to stem further regression has seen art emerge as an antidote for community strengthening. Since 2017, Shiosai, a week-long community art festi…
Tourism, the SDGs and partnerships
In 2019, Massey University in New Zealand hosted the world’s first research conference on tourism and the Sustainable Developments Goal (SDGs). The aims of this conference were to bring together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss (i) challenges to tourism contributing to the SDGs, and (ii) ways in which tourism can deliver on its potential to be more inclusive, equitable and sustainable. The need for diverse actors to work in partnership to …
Handbook of Niche Tourism
Carbon emission reduction and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Mega sports events must respond urgently to the climate crisis. • COVID travel restrictions reduced Tokyo Olympics Games transport CO 2 emissions. • Reduced attendance of Olympics-related personnel saved 129,686.0 tCO 2 emissions. • This reduction equates to 38.1% of the travel emissions of overseas spectators. • Minimising event-related personnel reduces gross sports event emissions
Humanising research: A citizen social science agenda
Cultural ecosystem services and placemaking in peripheral areas: A Tourism Geographies Agenda
Global Tourism and Covid-19: Implications for Theory and Practice
Community art festivals and sustainable rural revitalisation
The links between art events and sustainable development in rural contexts where revitalisation is pressing is becoming increasingly obvious. The village of Mitarai is an example of a small peripheral community in Japan faced with the impacts of depopulation, ageing and socio-economic decline. The urgency to stem further regression has seen art emerge as an antidote for community strengthening. Since 2017, Shiosai, a week-long community art festi…
Masculinities in the Field: Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research
Travel and Tourism in the Age of Overtourism
Global tourism in crisis: Conceptual frameworks for research and practice
Purpose The aims of this Editorial are twofold: (i) synthesise emergent themes from the special issue (ii) tender four theoretical frameworks toward examination of crises in tourism. Design/methodology/approach The thematic analysis of papers highlights a diversity of COVID-19 related crises contexts and research approaches. The need for robust theoretical interventions is highlighted through the four proposed conceptual frameworks. Findings Cris…
Visitor diversification in pilgrimage destinations: Comparing National and International Visitors Through Means-End
In contemporary society, spirituality has dissociated from the tenets of organized ‘official’ religion, resulting in a rise of ‘private’ spirituality, defined by each individual’s beliefs. In this context, visitors from a great variety of national backgrounds are increasingly visiting pilgrimage sites across the globe, even if they have little to no cultural connections to them, bringing with them a diverse range of values to the pilgrimage site.…
Tourism geographies in the 'Asian Century
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce, 1999; Scott, 2008; Shenkar, 2006). This paper considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues of our time such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. We critiqu…
Overtourism and degrowth: A social movements perspective
Tourism and Its Discontents in the Global South
Rather than assuming that host communities must serve the industry, expectations should be adjusted so that tourism genuinely aligns with those communities' own priorities
Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the Covid-19 pandemic
Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region
Visions of travel and tourism after the global Covid-19 transformation of 2020
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor RooseveltThis special issue is a reflection by tourism scholars on the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, with travel and tourism being among the most significant areas to bear those impacts.However, instead of an analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism places and sectors, as is the emphasis for many other journal special issues this year, th…
Human flourishing, tourism transformation and Covid-19: A Conceptual Touchstone
As the planet remains in the grips of COVID-19 and amidst enforced lockdowns and restrictions, and possibly the most profound economic downturn since the Great Depression, the resounding enquiry asks—what will the new normal look like? And, in much the same way, tourism aficionados, policy makers and communities are asking a similar question—what will the tourism landscape, and indeed the world, look like after the pandemic? As casualties from th…
Overtourism and degrowth: A Social Movements Perspective
Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon, rapidly evolving and underlined by what is evidently excessive visitation to tourist destinations. This is obvious in the seemingly uncontrolled and unplanned occurrence of urban overtourism in popular destinations and arguably a consequence of unregulated capital accumulation and growth strategies heavily associated with selling cities as tourism commodities. The vested interests of social movements has …
Transformative epistemologies for regenerative tourism: Towards a Decolonial Paradigm in Science and Practice
There is a growing scholarly interest in the potential of regenerative tourism approaches to address sustainability challenges. Drawing from an ecological worldview that interweaves Indigenous and Western knowledge systems, regenerative tourism approaches seek to increase the capacity of support systems for fulfilling net-positive social-ecological effects. We argue that Western scientific paradigms drive current tourism research methodologies an…
Geographies of marginalization: Encountering Modern Slavery in Tourism
Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the Covid-19 pandemic
Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region
Colonial heritage and tourism: Ethnic landscape perspectives
The revival of colonial heritage is a particular feature of former British and French colonies in Pacific and Asian settings. This is exemplified by the redevelopment and rejuvenation of what were exclusive ‘comfort zones’ for the ‘colonial classes’ and is central to the consumption of colonial nostalgia via tourism. The political and semiotic implications of renewing colonial era constructions for tourism are manifold. The key argument is that t…
Tourism geographies in the 'Asian Century
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce, 1999; Scott, 2008; Shenkar, 2006). This paper considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues of our time such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. We critiqu…
Tourism in Pacific island countries: A status quo round‐up
In the 21st century, Pacific island countries (PICs) continue to leverage for tourism the attributes that have imbued them, including appeals to their cultural, geographical, and climatic allure. However, the question raised more frequently by many is why despite the many decades of tourism across the region, development impacts from the sector remain largely muted. The key remit of this paper is to offer a status quo round‐up of tourism in PICs …
Cultural ecosystem services and placemaking in peripheral areas: A Tourism Geographies Agenda
Visitor diversification in pilgrimage destinations: Comparing National and International Visitors Through Means-End
In contemporary society, spirituality has dissociated from the tenets of organized ‘official’ religion, resulting in a rise of ‘private’ spirituality, defined by each individual’s beliefs. In this context, visitors from a great variety of national backgrounds are increasingly visiting pilgrimage sites across the globe, even if they have little to no cultural connections to them, bringing with them a diverse range of values to the pilgrimage site.…
Evidence-informed decision-making in sustainable tourism: From Research to Action
Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Carbon emission reduction and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Mega sports events must respond urgently to the climate crisis. • COVID travel restrictions reduced Tokyo Olympics Games transport CO 2 emissions. • Reduced attendance of Olympics-related personnel saved 129,686.0 tCO 2 emissions. • This reduction equates to 38.1% of the travel emissions of overseas spectators. • Minimising event-related personnel reduces gross sports event emissions
Roots Tourism: Blackbirding and the South Sea Islander Diaspora
Roots tourism and diaspora travel are inextricably aligned and embody more than just another avenue for the expansion of tourism. This article, using Vanuatu as the context, argues that roots tourism has far broader implications for diaspora, especially in so far as geopolitical relationships between colonial powers and their former outposts are concerned. The return sojourns of Australia's South Sea Islander diaspora are used in this article to …
Rural revitalisation, rural tourism and countryside capital: A rural society redux
Tourism and Traditional Culture: Land Diving in Vanuatu
Tourism and Islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change
If, as according to Robin (2015: online), "islands are idealised ecological worlds, the Edens of a fallen planet'", the rationale underpinning tourism expansion should acknowledge MacLeod's (2013) notion of "cultural realignment" that calls for optimal and resilient encounters. This introductory article to the subsequent theme section of the journal on sustainable tourism acts as a bridge toward the development of emergent themes that describe ho…
Tourism and Traditional Culture: Land Diving in Vanuatu
Roots Tourism: Blackbirding and the South Sea Islander Diaspora
Roots tourism and diaspora travel are inextricably aligned and embody more than just another avenue for the expansion of tourism. This article, using Vanuatu as the context, argues that roots tourism has far broader implications for diaspora, especially in so far as geopolitical relationships between colonial powers and their former outposts are concerned. The return sojourns of Australia's South Sea Islander diaspora are used in this article to …
Colonial heritage and tourism: Ethnic landscape perspectives
The revival of colonial heritage is a particular feature of former British and French colonies in Pacific and Asian settings. This is exemplified by the redevelopment and rejuvenation of what were exclusive ‘comfort zones’ for the ‘colonial classes’ and is central to the consumption of colonial nostalgia via tourism. The political and semiotic implications of renewing colonial era constructions for tourism are manifold. The key argument is that t…
Tourism and Islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change
If, as according to Robin (2015: online), "islands are idealised ecological worlds, the Edens of a fallen planet'", the rationale underpinning tourism expansion should acknowledge MacLeod's (2013) notion of "cultural realignment" that calls for optimal and resilient encounters. This introductory article to the subsequent theme section of the journal on sustainable tourism acts as a bridge toward the development of emergent themes that describe ho…
Tourism, Resilience and Sustainability: Adapting to Social, Political and Economic Change
World Heritage sites and tourism: Global and local relations
World Heritage sites and tourism: global and local relations." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 13(4), pp. 374–375
Cinematic diplomacy and the exotic other in the film Tanna: Implications for bilateral relations and tourism
The term the exotic other is invoked in this paper via the 2016 film, Tanna (Bentley Dean and Martin Butler). Set in the South Pacific nation Vanuatu, Tanna is an emblematic rendering of the exotic other through ethnography-inspired film. Film and narrative analysis is a fundamental method used to scrutinise and ponder the discernible and latent discourses evident and this is leveraged through the theoretical framework of cultural diplomacy. Cult…
Tourism in Pacific island countries: A status quo round‐up
In the 21st century, Pacific island countries (PICs) continue to leverage for tourism the attributes that have imbued them, including appeals to their cultural, geographical, and climatic allure. However, the question raised more frequently by many is why despite the many decades of tourism across the region, development impacts from the sector remain largely muted. The key remit of this paper is to offer a status quo round‐up of tourism in PICs …
Geographies of marginalization: Encountering Modern Slavery in Tourism
Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: Accentuating temporal overtourism
Global tourism growth is unprecedented. Consequently, this has elevated the sector as a key plank for economic development, and its utility is deeply embedded in political, economic and social-ecological discourse. Where the expansion of the sector leverages natural and cultural landscapes, this applies pressure to social and ecological underpinnings that if not reconciled, can become problematic. The way this plays out in Australia’s Shipwreck C…
Overtourism: Excesses, discontents and measures in travel and tourism
This book is concerned with the various dimensions of overtourism, including the social and economic impacts of excessive tourism and the management and policy measures to address it. The 10 chapters present case studies contributing to the overtourism discussion from diverse perspectives and contexts including urban, coastal and rural destinations. As an accompaniment to the detailed cases in this volume, four shorter exposés in the form of 'In …
Modern Day Slavery and Orphanage Tourism
This paper is about volunteer tourism in orphanages, more specifically in Nepal. While well-known for its mountainous landscapes, this country is one of the most popular destinations for this activity where business and humanitarianism contract a paradoxical union that is illustrative of the neo-liberal time. The commoditization of orphanages has increasingly raised serious ethical concerns, especially about the use of children as a tourist attra…
Overtourism and Tourismphobia: A Journey Through Four Decades of Tourism Development, Planning and Local Concerns
Over the past four decades, while the increasing demand for mobility, leisure and unique experiences have been examined as key factors in the growth of tourism, the attendant growth paradigm has hi
Overtourism and degrowth: A Social Movements Perspective
Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon, rapidly evolving and underlined by what is evidently excessive visitation to tourist destinations. This is obvious in the seemingly uncontrolled and unplanned occurrence of urban overtourism in popular destinations and arguably a consequence of unregulated capital accumulation and growth strategies heavily associated with selling cities as tourism commodities. The vested interests of social movements has …
Overtourism and degrowth: A social movements perspective
Tourism and Its Discontents in the Global South
Rather than assuming that host communities must serve the industry, expectations should be adjusted so that tourism genuinely aligns with those communities' own priorities
Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the Covid-19 pandemic
Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region
Human flourishing, tourism transformation and Covid-19: A Conceptual Touchstone
As the planet remains in the grips of COVID-19 and amidst enforced lockdowns and restrictions, and possibly the most profound economic downturn since the Great Depression, the resounding enquiry asks—what will the new normal look like? And, in much the same way, tourism aficionados, policy makers and communities are asking a similar question—what will the tourism landscape, and indeed the world, look like after the pandemic? As casualties from th…
Visions of travel and tourism after the global Covid-19 transformation of 2020
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor RooseveltThis special issue is a reflection by tourism scholars on the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, with travel and tourism being among the most significant areas to bear those impacts.However, instead of an analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism places and sectors, as is the emphasis for many other journal special issues this year, th…
Global Tourism and Covid-19: Implications for Theory and Practice
Community art festivals and sustainable rural revitalisation
The links between art events and sustainable development in rural contexts where revitalisation is pressing is becoming increasingly obvious. The village of Mitarai is an example of a small peripheral community in Japan faced with the impacts of depopulation, ageing and socio-economic decline. The urgency to stem further regression has seen art emerge as an antidote for community strengthening. Since 2017, Shiosai, a week-long community art festi…
Masculinities in the Field: Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research
Travel and Tourism in the Age of Overtourism
Global tourism in crisis: Conceptual frameworks for research and practice
Purpose The aims of this Editorial are twofold: (i) synthesise emergent themes from the special issue (ii) tender four theoretical frameworks toward examination of crises in tourism. Design/methodology/approach The thematic analysis of papers highlights a diversity of COVID-19 related crises contexts and research approaches. The need for robust theoretical interventions is highlighted through the four proposed conceptual frameworks. Findings Cris…
Visitor diversification in pilgrimage destinations: Comparing National and International Visitors Through Means-End
In contemporary society, spirituality has dissociated from the tenets of organized ‘official’ religion, resulting in a rise of ‘private’ spirituality, defined by each individual’s beliefs. In this context, visitors from a great variety of national backgrounds are increasingly visiting pilgrimage sites across the globe, even if they have little to no cultural connections to them, bringing with them a diverse range of values to the pilgrimage site.…
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