Jim Butcher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 230148 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jim Butcher |
| PRENOMES | Jim |
| SOBRENOME | Butcher |
| ASSINATURA | BUTCHER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Canterbury Christ Church University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5754-3562 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A commentary on regenerative tourism’s moral claims
Regenerative tourism has recently emerged as an influential concept in the academic writing around tourism and its future. Since 2020 over 30 articles have been published focused on this concept, and the field continues to grow. Much of the writing is characterised by advocacy for, rather than simply research about, a regenerative future for tourism. This advocacy resides on a number of contestable moral claims that are made, thus far, without co…
Volunteer tourism in the context of development thinking
Volunteer tourism is sometimes discussed as contributing to development goals in economically impoverished countries. Others argue that it contributes little if anything at all to material development, and others again claim that this is simply not its aim. Putting aside its contribution (or lack thereof), there is little doubt that volunteer tourism influences how development issues are constructed and mediated to the general public, framing the…
Debate on de-growth in tourism
This note is a reply to Higgins-Desbiolles and Everingham, commenting on their response to an original 2021 article published in Tourism Recreation Research titled ‘Covid-19, tourism and the advocacy of degrowth’. It counters some of their claims as reflecting a partial reading of the original article, and takes issue with others
Covid-19, tourism and the advocacy of degrowth
This article reviews the advocacy of degrowth in tourism, principally in relation to the emerging debates taking place in the light of the impact of Covid-19. It reviews the origins and meaning of degrowth as a development philosophy in order to place the discussion in a broader context. It proceeds to question some of the economic, environmental and cultural assumptions implicit and often explicit in degrowth advocacy with regard to tourism. The…
Debating tourism degrowth post Covid-19
Discourses, Bodies, and Questions of Sharedness in Kenya’s Wellness Communities
This article contemplates the construction of sharedness that underlies the success of alternative lifestyle communities in Eastern Africa. In Kenya, a new tourism niche market that focuses on yoga, mindfulness, and alternative medicine is flourishing. Tourists travel to East Africa to practice yoga, but also to introduce local communities to ‘alternative lifestyles’. By considering Western and Kenyan practitioners’ discourses about the benefits …
Constructing mass tourism
The term ‘mass tourism’ can simply be an empirical description of tourism enjoyed by many in modern, industrial societies. However, in context, it often refers to more than this. The ‘mass’ involves an aggregation of individuals, and involves assumptions and inferences about those individuals and their society. Hence mass tourism is, in an important sense, a social construct. It is therefore surprising that there is little consideration of this a…
Social licence to operate” and the human services
Externalised service provision is now an embedded feature of Australia's service delivery architecture. However, the lessons drawn from two decades of contracted service delivery suggest that “competition” is an imperfect platform for the delivery of public services, especially where issues of trust in government come into play. Could the concept of a “social license to operate” (SLO), which has been in use in the natural resources sector for ove…
Tourism Management in the Caribbean
(2018). Tourism Management in the Caribbean. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 254-283
Slumming It
Fabian Frenzel’s Slumming It sets out to examine slum tourism – travel to poor, slum areas as a form of leisure travel. It presents both extensive research and insight into the phenomenon and devel
What meaning for sustainability? The politics of ‘good development’
CONTEXTThis section of the journal encourages discussion between several authors on a policy-related topic. The same question may, therefore, be addressed from different theoretical, cultural or spatial perspectives. Dialogues may be applied or highly abstract. The Dialogue in this issue starts with Xavier Font’s contribution here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2016.1258514.
Making Sense of Tourism 1
Citizenship, global citizenship and volunteer tourism
This paper reflects on the association of volunteer tourism with global citizenship and argues that it involves outsourcing citizenship to ‘the globe’ in a manner unlikely to benefit global understanding or development politics. Volunteer tourism is strongly associated with global citizenship. Global citizenship, in turn, is associated with a better world. A key claim made about global citizenship is that it enables people to discharge their resp…
Volunteer tourism, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship
Volunteer tourism, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship." Tourism Recreation Research, 42(2), pp. 127–128
Investing in Not‐for‐Profit Sector Capacity
In 2013 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government's Community Services Directorate (CSD) initiated a suite of projects designed to address the not‐for‐profit (NFP) community services sector's capacity to adapt to a rapidly changing policy and operational environment. In common with other Australian governments, the ACT relies upon NFP organisations to deliver a wide range of community‐based human/social services. The procurement of servic…
Squaring the Virtuous Circle
During his May 2014 visit to Australia Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization, urged ‘public institutions, civil society, and global businesses’ to forge ‘creative coalitions’ for the purpose of engaging constructively and positively with the complex problems standing in the way of achieving social and economic sustainability. Lamy's visit was but the first of several occasions during 2014 in which intense public dis…
Ethical tourism and development
Over the last 25 years, ethical tourism has become an important point of reference for social scientists, business specialists, campaigns and significant numbers of ordinary people. Yet, just a generation ago, prior to the pervasive influence of consumer politics, the consumption of holidays seemed problem free – you really could ‘leave your cares behind'. Political and moral interventions in society were posed in a different way and within a dif…
The third sector and government in Australia
The emergence of ‘compacts’ between government and the ‘third’ or ‘not-for-profit’ sector is intimately linked to the comprehensive transformation of the welfare state. The first compacts in the United Kingdom in 1998 spawned similar policy instruments in other jurisdictions, including Australia. In 2006 the Labor opposition led by Kevin Rudd undertook to repair a ‘broken’ relationship between the federal government and the not-for-profit sector.…
New Zealand's Relationship Accord
In New Zealand the Clark Labour government (1999-2008) advocated entering into a compact with the country's community and voluntary sector. However, owing in part to the reticence of New Zealand's national umbrella organisations, a bilateral framework agreement between government and the sector was never formalised. It was not until May 2011 that a framework document - Kia Tūtahi Standing Together: The Relationship Accord between the Communities …
Cross-sector partnership and human services in Australian states and territories
Under Australia's federal system subnational governments fund the delivery of a wide range of public services. In particular, state and territory governments have increasingly looked to the non-profit sector to deliver human services under contract. Over time, the contracting regimes employed by public sector commissioners have taken on more ‘relational’ characteristics, accompanied by a gradual softening of public sector resistance to non-profit…
Real Tourism
An Australian National Compact - Something old, something new
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) formed government under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2007 promising to consult with the not-for-profit sector on the development of a national compact. It was the government’s aim to forge a new settlement with the sector after eleven years of Liberal/National Coalition government during which contractual governance rather than relational governance was the norm. The provenance of the National Compact, launched in…
Competition and Collaboration in the Contracting of Family Relationship Centres 1
In 2005–06 the Australian government announced the establishment of 65 Family Relationship Centres (FRCs) – a ‘gateway’ service assisting separating couples to reach agreement about child custodial arrangements without recourse to courts. The use of a multi‐round competitive contracting regime for the purpose of selecting service providers gave rise to a number of tensions amongst not‐for‐profit organisations (NFPOs) which, to a degree, compromis…
Volunteer Tourism May Not be as Good as It Seems
Much volunteer tourism is characterized by a highly circumspect view of economic development in parts of the world in which the latter is most needed. As the lead article mentions, ‘small is beautiful’ is all too often taken as gospel, and a hostility to big business is meat and drink to some of the foremost academic advocates of volunteer tourism
The Moralisation of Tourism
Introduction Chapter 1. Mass Tourism Chapter 2. What's new? - Traveller, tourist and the moral debate Chapter 3. The hosts: fragile places, fragile people? Chapter 4. The tourists: too much freedom? Chapter 5. The cultural sensibilities of the New Moral Tourist Chapter 6. Travelling for a change: global culture and the ethical tourist Chapter 7. The moralisation of tourism, the Third World and development, Postscript: Re-presenting tourism
Making a Difference’
In recent decades there has been a boom in international volunteer tourism, mainly in the form of the growth of gap-year companies offering placements, linked to conservation and community well-being goals. This paper makes two points: firstly, it argues that the growth of volunteer tourism is in part a product of the politics of the current period—the decline of grand narratives and the growth of ‘life political’ alternative forms of agency. Hen…
Volunteer Tourism May Not be as Good as It Seems
Much volunteer tourism is characterized by a highly circumspect view of economic development in parts of the world in which the latter is most needed. As the lead article mentions, ‘small is beautiful’ is all too often taken as gospel, and a hostility to big business is meat and drink to some of the foremost academic advocates of volunteer tourism
Covid-19, tourism and the advocacy of degrowth
This article reviews the advocacy of degrowth in tourism, principally in relation to the emerging debates taking place in the light of the impact of Covid-19. It reviews the origins and meaning of degrowth as a development philosophy in order to place the discussion in a broader context. It proceeds to question some of the economic, environmental and cultural assumptions implicit and often explicit in degrowth advocacy with regard to tourism. The…
Cross-sector partnership and human services in Australian states and territories
Under Australia's federal system subnational governments fund the delivery of a wide range of public services. In particular, state and territory governments have increasingly looked to the non-profit sector to deliver human services under contract. Over time, the contracting regimes employed by public sector commissioners have taken on more ‘relational’ characteristics, accompanied by a gradual softening of public sector resistance to non-profit…
The United Nations International Year of Ecotourism
The United Nations International Year of Ecotourism (IYE) of 2002 marked out the rise of ecotourism from new niche market opportunity in the 1980s to being regarded by its advocates as an exemplary form of sustainable development in the rural developing world. This paper briefly situates the IYE in the context of wider ideas on development and conservation. It identifies and critically considers three key themes featured in the documentation from…
Debating tourism degrowth post Covid-19
Citizenship, global citizenship and volunteer tourism
This paper reflects on the association of volunteer tourism with global citizenship and argues that it involves outsourcing citizenship to ‘the globe’ in a manner unlikely to benefit global understanding or development politics. Volunteer tourism is strongly associated with global citizenship. Global citizenship, in turn, is associated with a better world. A key claim made about global citizenship is that it enables people to discharge their resp…
Ethical tourism and development
Over the last 25 years, ethical tourism has become an important point of reference for social scientists, business specialists, campaigns and significant numbers of ordinary people. Yet, just a generation ago, prior to the pervasive influence of consumer politics, the consumption of holidays seemed problem free – you really could ‘leave your cares behind'. Political and moral interventions in society were posed in a different way and within a dif…
Competition and Collaboration in the Contracting of Family Relationship Centres 1
In 2005–06 the Australian government announced the establishment of 65 Family Relationship Centres (FRCs) – a ‘gateway’ service assisting separating couples to reach agreement about child custodial arrangements without recourse to courts. The use of a multi‐round competitive contracting regime for the purpose of selecting service providers gave rise to a number of tensions amongst not‐for‐profit organisations (NFPOs) which, to a degree, compromis…
Constructing mass tourism
The term ‘mass tourism’ can simply be an empirical description of tourism enjoyed by many in modern, industrial societies. However, in context, it often refers to more than this. The ‘mass’ involves an aggregation of individuals, and involves assumptions and inferences about those individuals and their society. Hence mass tourism is, in an important sense, a social construct. It is therefore surprising that there is little consideration of this a…
The third sector and government in Australia
The emergence of ‘compacts’ between government and the ‘third’ or ‘not-for-profit’ sector is intimately linked to the comprehensive transformation of the welfare state. The first compacts in the United Kingdom in 1998 spawned similar policy instruments in other jurisdictions, including Australia. In 2006 the Labor opposition led by Kevin Rudd undertook to repair a ‘broken’ relationship between the federal government and the not-for-profit sector.…
Volunteer tourism in the context of development thinking
Volunteer tourism is sometimes discussed as contributing to development goals in economically impoverished countries. Others argue that it contributes little if anything at all to material development, and others again claim that this is simply not its aim. Putting aside its contribution (or lack thereof), there is little doubt that volunteer tourism influences how development issues are constructed and mediated to the general public, framing the…
Tourism Management in the Caribbean
(2018). Tourism Management in the Caribbean. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 254-283
Squaring the Virtuous Circle
During his May 2014 visit to Australia Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization, urged ‘public institutions, civil society, and global businesses’ to forge ‘creative coalitions’ for the purpose of engaging constructively and positively with the complex problems standing in the way of achieving social and economic sustainability. Lamy's visit was but the first of several occasions during 2014 in which intense public dis…
The Mantra of ‘Community Participation’ in Context
This Department has been spedfically created to include findings of special significance and problem areas of subtle nuances in tourism research. Insightful contributions presenting the state-of-the-art, preferably from the developing societies, will be appreciated. It will also encourage scholars and authors to think against the grain, probing the consistency of theoretical notions and research trends whose heuristic value is all too often taken…
Debate on de-growth in tourism
This note is a reply to Higgins-Desbiolles and Everingham, commenting on their response to an original 2021 article published in Tourism Recreation Research titled ‘Covid-19, tourism and the advocacy of degrowth’. It counters some of their claims as reflecting a partial reading of the original article, and takes issue with others
Social licence to operate” and the human services
Externalised service provision is now an embedded feature of Australia's service delivery architecture. However, the lessons drawn from two decades of contracted service delivery suggest that “competition” is an imperfect platform for the delivery of public services, especially where issues of trust in government come into play. Could the concept of a “social license to operate” (SLO), which has been in use in the natural resources sector for ove…
An Australian National Compact - Something old, something new
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) formed government under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2007 promising to consult with the not-for-profit sector on the development of a national compact. It was the government’s aim to forge a new settlement with the sector after eleven years of Liberal/National Coalition government during which contractual governance rather than relational governance was the norm. The provenance of the National Compact, launched in…
Ethical’ Travel and Well-being
This article looks at the 'well-being' claims made for ethical tourism and argues that this comprises little in the way of development
Volunteer tourism, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship
Volunteer tourism, cosmopolitanism and global citizenship." Tourism Recreation Research, 42(2), pp. 127–128
Investing in Not‐for‐Profit Sector Capacity
In 2013 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government's Community Services Directorate (CSD) initiated a suite of projects designed to address the not‐for‐profit (NFP) community services sector's capacity to adapt to a rapidly changing policy and operational environment. In common with other Australian governments, the ACT relies upon NFP organisations to deliver a wide range of community‐based human/social services. The procurement of servic…
Real Tourism
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball
The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming
List of Tables - List of Maps - List of Figures - Preface - Notes on Weights and Currencies - Notes on Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: THEMES AND PERSPECTIVE - A Fresh Approach to Southeast Asian History H.Dick - Revenue Farming and the Changing State in Southeast Asia J.Butcher - Revenue Farming in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on Taxation, Social Structure and Development in the Early-Modern Period I.Copland & M.R.God…
The Moralisation of Tourism
Tourism is no longer an innocent pleasure. It has been interpreted and reinterpreted as an activity which is ultimately damaging to receiving cultures and the environment. 'New' forms of tourism, such as ecotourism, alternative tourism, community tourism and ethical tourism, have been presented as morally superior alternatives to the package holiday, yet ironically, even advocates of these new, ethical tourism brands are increasingly subject to c…
The United Nations International Year of Ecotourism
The United Nations International Year of Ecotourism (IYE) of 2002 marked out the rise of ecotourism from new niche market opportunity in the 1980s to being regarded by its advocates as an exemplary form of sustainable development in the rural developing world. This paper briefly situates the IYE in the context of wider ideas on development and conservation. It identifies and critically considers three key themes featured in the documentation from…
Ethical’ Travel and Well-being
This article looks at the 'well-being' claims made for ethical tourism and argues that this comprises little in the way of development
Australia Under Construction
of New South Wales Michael has taught on social theory, the media and the public sphere, economic ideas, and, most recently, on quality of life in
Australia Under Construction
The Australian nation is a work in progress. So conclude the authors whose views are represented in this most recent offering in the ANZSOG monograph series, Australia Under Construction: Nation-building past, present and future. From its beginnings as a settler society through to present day concerns about 'broadbanding the nation', the nation-building narrative has resonated
Against ‘Ethical Tourism’
A Frog in a Well Shaft
Understanding the interplay among experience, beliefs, and contexts of teaching in preservice and inservice teachers' learning to teach is crucial to improving teacher quality for diverse populations. This study examined the impact of a summer camp English teaching experience in China on the ideas and practice of two White, middle-class female teacher education students with varying backgrounds and experience. Data sources included surveys, inter…
Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services
The Mantra of ‘Community Participation’ in Context
This Department has been spedfically created to include findings of special significance and problem areas of subtle nuances in tourism research. Insightful contributions presenting the state-of-the-art, preferably from the developing societies, will be appreciated. It will also encourage scholars and authors to think against the grain, probing the consistency of theoretical notions and research trends whose heuristic value is all too often taken…
Making a Difference’
In recent decades there has been a boom in international volunteer tourism, mainly in the form of the growth of gap-year companies offering placements, linked to conservation and community well-being goals. This paper makes two points: firstly, it argues that the growth of volunteer tourism is in part a product of the politics of the current period—the decline of grand narratives and the growth of ‘life political’ alternative forms of agency. Hen…
Global perspectives in the geography curriculum
Competition and Collaboration in the Contracting of Family Relationship Centres 1
In 2005–06 the Australian government announced the establishment of 65 Family Relationship Centres (FRCs) – a ‘gateway’ service assisting separating couples to reach agreement about child custodial arrangements without recourse to courts. The use of a multi‐round competitive contracting regime for the purpose of selecting service providers gave rise to a number of tensions amongst not‐for‐profit organisations (NFPOs) which, to a degree, compromis…
Volunteer Tourism May Not be as Good as It Seems
Much volunteer tourism is characterized by a highly circumspect view of economic development in parts of the world in which the latter is most needed. As the lead article mentions, ‘small is beautiful’ is all too often taken as gospel, and a hostility to big business is meat and drink to some of the foremost academic advocates of volunteer tourism
An Australian National Compact - Something old, something new
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) formed government under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2007 promising to consult with the not-for-profit sector on the development of a national compact. It was the government’s aim to forge a new settlement with the sector after eleven years of Liberal/National Coalition government during which contractual governance rather than relational governance was the norm. The provenance of the National Compact, launched in…
Real Tourism
Cross-sector partnership and human services in Australian states and territories
Under Australia's federal system subnational governments fund the delivery of a wide range of public services. In particular, state and territory governments have increasingly looked to the non-profit sector to deliver human services under contract. Over time, the contracting regimes employed by public sector commissioners have taken on more ‘relational’ characteristics, accompanied by a gradual softening of public sector resistance to non-profit…
Squaring the Virtuous Circle
During his May 2014 visit to Australia Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization, urged ‘public institutions, civil society, and global businesses’ to forge ‘creative coalitions’ for the purpose of engaging constructively and positively with the complex problems standing in the way of achieving social and economic sustainability. Lamy's visit was but the first of several occasions during 2014 in which intense public dis…
Ethical tourism and development
Over the last 25 years, ethical tourism has become an important point of reference for social scientists, business specialists, campaigns and significant numbers of ordinary people. Yet, just a generation ago, prior to the pervasive influence of consumer politics, the consumption of holidays seemed problem free – you really could ‘leave your cares behind'. Political and moral interventions in society were posed in a different way and within a dif…
The third sector and government in Australia
The emergence of ‘compacts’ between government and the ‘third’ or ‘not-for-profit’ sector is intimately linked to the comprehensive transformation of the welfare state. The first compacts in the United Kingdom in 1998 spawned similar policy instruments in other jurisdictions, including Australia. In 2006 the Labor opposition led by Kevin Rudd undertook to repair a ‘broken’ relationship between the federal government and the not-for-profit sector.…
New Zealand's Relationship Accord
In New Zealand the Clark Labour government (1999-2008) advocated entering into a compact with the country's community and voluntary sector. However, owing in part to the reticence of New Zealand's national umbrella organisations, a bilateral framework agreement between government and the sector was never formalised. It was not until May 2011 that a framework document - Kia Tūtahi Standing Together: The Relationship Accord between the Communities …
Investing in Not‐for‐Profit Sector Capacity
In 2013 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government's Community Services Directorate (CSD) initiated a suite of projects designed to address the not‐for‐profit (NFP) community services sector's capacity to adapt to a rapidly changing policy and operational environment. In common with other Australian governments, the ACT relies upon NFP organisations to deliver a wide range of community‐based human/social services. The procurement of servic…
What meaning for sustainability? The politics of ‘good development’
CONTEXTThis section of the journal encourages discussion between several authors on a policy-related topic. The same question may, therefore, be addressed from different theoretical, cultural or spatial perspectives. Dialogues may be applied or highly abstract. The Dialogue in this issue starts with Xavier Font’s contribution here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2016.1258514.
Making Sense of Tourism 1
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