Pierre Walter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3781473 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pierre Walter |
| PRENOMES | Pierre |
| SOBRENOME | Walter |
| ASSINATURA | WALTER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7168-5260 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Settler colonialism and the violent geographies of tourism in the California redwoods
Hidden from view, underneath the tourism landscape of the California redwoods, is a genocidal settler colonial history of warfare, massacres, and forced removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands. This history has been ignored in the touristic narrative of people and place presented by a redwoods attraction in northern California, which are rife with unacknowledged histories and geographies of violence. Framed by scholarship on violen…
Decolonizing US settler-colonial narratives in living history museums
Museums around the world are recognizing their responsibility to repudiate violent legacies of colonialism and decolonize collections, exhibits and interpretation. In North America, decolonization has meant repatriating sacred artifacts, sites and bodies to Indigenous and other dispossessed people; presenting counter-narratives to white settler-colonial history; challenging racist, sexist and other negative stereotypes and histories; and teaching…
Political Posters, the Soviet Enlightenment and the Construction of a Learning Society, 1917-1928
This paper explores the construction of a Soviet learning society represented in Soviet political posters during the first decade after the 1917 Socialist Revolution. The theoretical framework is based on studies of learning societies, lifelong education and learning, Soviet education, and the theory of multiple modernities. We employed a post-structuralist discourse analysis that allowed us to explore verbal and non-verbal poster elements to ide…
Learning towards decolonising relationships at standing rock
The opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline that took place at Standing Rock in North Dakota was the largest gathering of Indigenous Peoples in recent U.S. history. Thousands of people, Indigenous and otherwise, came together from across North America and beyond to protect waters and sacred sites threatened by the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Our study examined the learning of Canada-based pipeline activists who travelled to S…
Ecopedagogy
Unsettling allyship, unlearning and learning towards decolonising solidarity
Social movements are pedagogical spaces for collective learning across difference. Divergent worldviews, interest and identity, historical legacies and relations of power complicate notions of allyship and solidarity for common cause. In this article, we draw on social movement and transformative learning to reflect on our experiences of learning and unlearning as white settler-colonialists researching allyship in the Standing Rock struggle again…
Community-based ecotourism and the transformative learning of homestay hosts in Cambodia
Ecotourism seldom places humans within the natural environments which serve as ecotourism attractions. Scholarship on learning and education in ecotourism has accordingly focused mostly on visitor learning about wildlife, biodiversity and adventure experiences in ‘pristine’ natural ecosystems. By contrast, community-based ecotourism (CBE) involves local and Indigenous communities living within natural environments. CBE aims not only to preserve n…
A geography of ecotourism in Cambodia
Tourism visits to Cambodia have expanded rapidly, with over 5 million visitors arriving in the country by 2016. Angkor Wat remains the primary tourist attraction, but increasing numbers of tourists also visit ecotourism destinations. This study draws on Weaver’s [(2002). Asian ecotourism: Patterns and themes. Tourism Geographies, 4(2), 153–172] spatial and structural analysis of ecotourism in Asia as an organizing framework to develop a geography…
Learning about social movements through news media
This article critically examines how news media, as a form of public pedagogy, functioned to ‘educate’ the public about the Standing Rock pipeline protests in North Dakota, USA. Drawing on literature in public pedagogy, social movement learning and communication studies, we employed ethnographic content analysis to identify emergent patterns, emphases and themes in all online media coverage by the New York Times and Fox News of the Standing Rock …
Modernisation theory, ecotourism policy, and sustainable development for poor countries of the global South
Despite its popularity as a strategy for sustainable development in the global South, ecotourism has had a mixed record in enhancing the socio-economic conditions of the rural populace. We argue that part of this failure lies in the fact that the theory and practice of ecotourism, like conventional mass tourism, has been guided by a modernisation approach to development. In this paper, we outline the historical evolution of ecotourism policy in N…
Culinary tourism as living history
This study examined how a cooking school in Thailand acted as a site of living history in its staging and touristic experience of authenticity. The cooking school was one of the oldest, most visited and most comprehensively “staged” cooking schools in Bangkok. Research focused on understanding: (a) the nature of spatial and temporal staging of authenticity in the school, (b) tourists’ perceptions of authenticity and (c) parallels between the cook…
Minority education in China
This edited collection of papers on the status of ‘minority education’ in China is a welcome critical contribution to policy and pedagogy debates on multicultural education, bilingual education, tr
Travelers’ experiences of authenticity in “hill tribe” tourism in Northern Thailand
This study examines how tourists experience authenticity and the ethics of “hill tribe” trekking in northern Thailand, and what they learn as a result of their touristic encounters. A “netnography” methodology was used to analyze on-line data from travelers’ touristic encounters with highland people in two sites. The first was the on-line reviews, blogs, and videos of travelers’ experiences in Baan Tong Luang, a multi-ethnic “hill tribe village” …
Ecotourism, gender and development in northern Vietnam
Theorising community gardens as pedagogical sites in the food movement
Community gardens are rich non-school sites of informal adult learning and education in the North American food movement. To date, however, they have seldom been the subject of research in environmental education. This paper argues that theorising on public pedagogy and social movement learning from the field of Adult Education might effectively be applied to frame the study of learning in community gardens. A brief history of community gardens i…
How do you know it when you see it? Community-based ecotourism in the Cardamom Mountains of southwestern Cambodia
The “Ecotourism Curriculum” and Visitor Learning in Community-based Ecotourism
Visitor learning is a basic component of community-based ecotourism (CBET), yet has seldom been the subject of research. This study examines how local environmental, cultural and livelihood knowledge comprise the ecotourism curriculum in two CBET projects located in southern Thailand and Cambodia, respectively. Following an accounting of local ecotourism curriculum content and teaching pedagogies employed at present in the two projects, recommend…
Gender Analysis in Community-based Ecotourism
Community-based Ecotourism (CBET) holds great promise in promoting environmental conservation, local livelihood, and cultural preservation. However, without a clear understanding of the differential benefits and costs of CBET for men and women, ‘gender unaware’ CBET research, policies and projects may in fact promote the welfare of men over women. That is, without a consideration of factors such as (a) the gender division of labour, (b) gender re…
Local knowledge and adult learning in environmental adult education
This paper examines how local knowledge is employed in environmental adult education in a community‐based ecotourism project in an island community in southern Thailand. The study is based on field research and analysis of project websites, media reports and documents. Situated at the intersection of global tourism and a local Thai–Malay Muslim fishing community, the ecotourism project functions as an alternative tourism development model challen…
Activist forest monks, adult learning and the Buddhist environmental movement in Thailand 1
In the tradition of grassroots environmental movements worldwide, activist Buddhist monks in rural Thailand have, since the late 1980s, led a popular movement to protect local forest, water and land resources while at the same time challenging dominant state and corporate ‘economist’ development paradigms. Most famously, these ‘development monks’ (phra nak phathanaa) and ‘ecology monks’ (phra nak anuraksaa) have led local villagers and NGO activi…
Literacy practices in development
This is an ethnographic study of the literacy practices of a group of rural Northeastern Thai women participating in a community-based literacy programme. Field research for the study examined the women's literacy practices and domains of literacy use in daily life, and the strategies they used to negotiate day-to-day life tasks in the context of change and development in their local community. Findings show that the women effectively negotiated …
Through a gender lens
This ethnographic study employs a gender perspective to understand the motivations of eight women literacy learners participating in a village‐based functional literacy programme in rural North‐eastern Thailand. Field research took place over six months of periodic residence in a North‐eastern Thai village, and involved participant observation, individual interviews and informal focus groups. An analysis of the women’s reproductive, productive an…
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Contributed articles and seminar papers; most previously published in the Economic and political weekly
Engendering Economic Valuation of Tropical Forests
Environmental economics, and economic valuation of the environment in particular, has in the past two decades not only become increasingly popular in academic circles, but has also been widely adopted as a development approach by international and local development agencies. However, while this approach now makes visible and valued environmental resources which were previously considered free externalities in economic accounting, it continues to …
Adult literacy education and development in Thailand
This study of adult literacy education in Thailand analyses the ways in which the Thai state has historically shaped adult literacy education policies for development. For the authoritarian Thai state of the 1940s and 1950s, literacy education was a means of promoting nationalism through an imagined community of Thai citizens. For the developmentalist state of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, literacy education was the means to create a new Thai worki…
How do you know it when you see it? Community-based ecotourism in the Cardamom Mountains of southwestern Cambodia
Ecotourism, gender and development in northern Vietnam
Settler colonialism and the violent geographies of tourism in the California redwoods
Hidden from view, underneath the tourism landscape of the California redwoods, is a genocidal settler colonial history of warfare, massacres, and forced removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands. This history has been ignored in the touristic narrative of people and place presented by a redwoods attraction in northern California, which are rife with unacknowledged histories and geographies of violence. Framed by scholarship on violen…
Unsettling allyship, unlearning and learning towards decolonising solidarity
Social movements are pedagogical spaces for collective learning across difference. Divergent worldviews, interest and identity, historical legacies and relations of power complicate notions of allyship and solidarity for common cause. In this article, we draw on social movement and transformative learning to reflect on our experiences of learning and unlearning as white settler-colonialists researching allyship in the Standing Rock struggle again…
Theorising community gardens as pedagogical sites in the food movement
Community gardens are rich non-school sites of informal adult learning and education in the North American food movement. To date, however, they have seldom been the subject of research in environmental education. This paper argues that theorising on public pedagogy and social movement learning from the field of Adult Education might effectively be applied to frame the study of learning in community gardens. A brief history of community gardens i…
Learning about social movements through news media
This article critically examines how news media, as a form of public pedagogy, functioned to ‘educate’ the public about the Standing Rock pipeline protests in North Dakota, USA. Drawing on literature in public pedagogy, social movement learning and communication studies, we employed ethnographic content analysis to identify emergent patterns, emphases and themes in all online media coverage by the New York Times and Fox News of the Standing Rock …
Culinary tourism as living history
This study examined how a cooking school in Thailand acted as a site of living history in its staging and touristic experience of authenticity. The cooking school was one of the oldest, most visited and most comprehensively “staged” cooking schools in Bangkok. Research focused on understanding: (a) the nature of spatial and temporal staging of authenticity in the school, (b) tourists’ perceptions of authenticity and (c) parallels between the cook…
Gender Analysis in Community-based Ecotourism
Community-based Ecotourism (CBET) holds great promise in promoting environmental conservation, local livelihood, and cultural preservation. However, without a clear understanding of the differential benefits and costs of CBET for men and women, ‘gender unaware’ CBET research, policies and projects may in fact promote the welfare of men over women. That is, without a consideration of factors such as (a) the gender division of labour, (b) gender re…
Local knowledge and adult learning in environmental adult education
This paper examines how local knowledge is employed in environmental adult education in a community‐based ecotourism project in an island community in southern Thailand. The study is based on field research and analysis of project websites, media reports and documents. Situated at the intersection of global tourism and a local Thai–Malay Muslim fishing community, the ecotourism project functions as an alternative tourism development model challen…
Travelers’ experiences of authenticity in “hill tribe” tourism in Northern Thailand
This study examines how tourists experience authenticity and the ethics of “hill tribe” trekking in northern Thailand, and what they learn as a result of their touristic encounters. A “netnography” methodology was used to analyze on-line data from travelers’ touristic encounters with highland people in two sites. The first was the on-line reviews, blogs, and videos of travelers’ experiences in Baan Tong Luang, a multi-ethnic “hill tribe village” …
Defining literacy and its consequences in the developing world
A variety of important life consequences for literacy are widely assumed in the contemporary discourse on adult literacy with little, if any empirical research to support them. As a result, they have been variously labelled as ‘myths’ (Coombs 1985), ‘doubtful promises’ (Hinzen 1983), proclamations of ‘faith’ (Winchester 1990) and ‘claims in search of reality’ (Wagner 1992). Part of the problem here is that the effects of literacy are often identi…
Activist forest monks, adult learning and the Buddhist environmental movement in Thailand 1
In the tradition of grassroots environmental movements worldwide, activist Buddhist monks in rural Thailand have, since the late 1980s, led a popular movement to protect local forest, water and land resources while at the same time challenging dominant state and corporate ‘economist’ development paradigms. Most famously, these ‘development monks’ (phra nak phathanaa) and ‘ecology monks’ (phra nak anuraksaa) have led local villagers and NGO activi…
Ecopedagogy
Community-based ecotourism and the transformative learning of homestay hosts in Cambodia
Ecotourism seldom places humans within the natural environments which serve as ecotourism attractions. Scholarship on learning and education in ecotourism has accordingly focused mostly on visitor learning about wildlife, biodiversity and adventure experiences in ‘pristine’ natural ecosystems. By contrast, community-based ecotourism (CBE) involves local and Indigenous communities living within natural environments. CBE aims not only to preserve n…
The “Ecotourism Curriculum” and Visitor Learning in Community-based Ecotourism
Visitor learning is a basic component of community-based ecotourism (CBET), yet has seldom been the subject of research. This study examines how local environmental, cultural and livelihood knowledge comprise the ecotourism curriculum in two CBET projects located in southern Thailand and Cambodia, respectively. Following an accounting of local ecotourism curriculum content and teaching pedagogies employed at present in the two projects, recommend…
Through a gender lens
This ethnographic study employs a gender perspective to understand the motivations of eight women literacy learners participating in a village‐based functional literacy programme in rural North‐eastern Thailand. Field research took place over six months of periodic residence in a North‐eastern Thai village, and involved participant observation, individual interviews and informal focus groups. An analysis of the women’s reproductive, productive an…
Learning towards decolonising relationships at standing rock
The opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline that took place at Standing Rock in North Dakota was the largest gathering of Indigenous Peoples in recent U.S. history. Thousands of people, Indigenous and otherwise, came together from across North America and beyond to protect waters and sacred sites threatened by the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Our study examined the learning of Canada-based pipeline activists who travelled to S…
A geography of ecotourism in Cambodia
Tourism visits to Cambodia have expanded rapidly, with over 5 million visitors arriving in the country by 2016. Angkor Wat remains the primary tourist attraction, but increasing numbers of tourists also visit ecotourism destinations. This study draws on Weaver’s [(2002). Asian ecotourism: Patterns and themes. Tourism Geographies, 4(2), 153–172] spatial and structural analysis of ecotourism in Asia as an organizing framework to develop a geography…
Engendering Economic Valuation of Tropical Forests
Environmental economics, and economic valuation of the environment in particular, has in the past two decades not only become increasingly popular in academic circles, but has also been widely adopted as a development approach by international and local development agencies. However, while this approach now makes visible and valued environmental resources which were previously considered free externalities in economic accounting, it continues to …
Adult literacy education and development in Thailand
This study of adult literacy education in Thailand analyses the ways in which the Thai state has historically shaped adult literacy education policies for development. For the authoritarian Thai state of the 1940s and 1950s, literacy education was a means of promoting nationalism through an imagined community of Thai citizens. For the developmentalist state of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, literacy education was the means to create a new Thai worki…
Regional Conference on Gender and Technology in Asia
Defining literacy and its consequences in the developing world
A variety of important life consequences for literacy are widely assumed in the contemporary discourse on adult literacy with little, if any empirical research to support them. As a result, they have been variously labelled as ‘myths’ (Coombs 1985), ‘doubtful promises’ (Hinzen 1983), proclamations of ‘faith’ (Winchester 1990) and ‘claims in search of reality’ (Wagner 1992). Part of the problem here is that the effects of literacy are often identi…
Engendering Economic Valuation of Tropical Forests
Environmental economics, and economic valuation of the environment in particular, has in the past two decades not only become increasingly popular in academic circles, but has also been widely adopted as a development approach by international and local development agencies. However, while this approach now makes visible and valued environmental resources which were previously considered free externalities in economic accounting, it continues to …
Adult literacy education and development in Thailand
This study of adult literacy education in Thailand analyses the ways in which the Thai state has historically shaped adult literacy education policies for development. For the authoritarian Thai state of the 1940s and 1950s, literacy education was a means of promoting nationalism through an imagined community of Thai citizens. For the developmentalist state of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, literacy education was the means to create a new Thai worki…
Through a gender lens
This ethnographic study employs a gender perspective to understand the motivations of eight women literacy learners participating in a village‐based functional literacy programme in rural North‐eastern Thailand. Field research took place over six months of periodic residence in a North‐eastern Thai village, and involved participant observation, individual interviews and informal focus groups. An analysis of the women’s reproductive, productive an…
Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
Contributed articles and seminar papers; most previously published in the Economic and political weekly
Literacy practices in development
This is an ethnographic study of the literacy practices of a group of rural Northeastern Thai women participating in a community-based literacy programme. Field research for the study examined the women's literacy practices and domains of literacy use in daily life, and the strategies they used to negotiate day-to-day life tasks in the context of change and development in their local community. Findings show that the women effectively negotiated …
Activist forest monks, adult learning and the Buddhist environmental movement in Thailand 1
In the tradition of grassroots environmental movements worldwide, activist Buddhist monks in rural Thailand have, since the late 1980s, led a popular movement to protect local forest, water and land resources while at the same time challenging dominant state and corporate ‘economist’ development paradigms. Most famously, these ‘development monks’ (phra nak phathanaa) and ‘ecology monks’ (phra nak anuraksaa) have led local villagers and NGO activi…
Local knowledge and adult learning in environmental adult education
This paper examines how local knowledge is employed in environmental adult education in a community‐based ecotourism project in an island community in southern Thailand. The study is based on field research and analysis of project websites, media reports and documents. Situated at the intersection of global tourism and a local Thai–Malay Muslim fishing community, the ecotourism project functions as an alternative tourism development model challen…
The “Ecotourism Curriculum” and Visitor Learning in Community-based Ecotourism
Visitor learning is a basic component of community-based ecotourism (CBET), yet has seldom been the subject of research. This study examines how local environmental, cultural and livelihood knowledge comprise the ecotourism curriculum in two CBET projects located in southern Thailand and Cambodia, respectively. Following an accounting of local ecotourism curriculum content and teaching pedagogies employed at present in the two projects, recommend…
Gender Analysis in Community-based Ecotourism
Community-based Ecotourism (CBET) holds great promise in promoting environmental conservation, local livelihood, and cultural preservation. However, without a clear understanding of the differential benefits and costs of CBET for men and women, ‘gender unaware’ CBET research, policies and projects may in fact promote the welfare of men over women. That is, without a consideration of factors such as (a) the gender division of labour, (b) gender re…
Theorising community gardens as pedagogical sites in the food movement
Community gardens are rich non-school sites of informal adult learning and education in the North American food movement. To date, however, they have seldom been the subject of research in environmental education. This paper argues that theorising on public pedagogy and social movement learning from the field of Adult Education might effectively be applied to frame the study of learning in community gardens. A brief history of community gardens i…
How do you know it when you see it? Community-based ecotourism in the Cardamom Mountains of southwestern Cambodia
Ecotourism, gender and development in northern Vietnam
Travelers’ experiences of authenticity in “hill tribe” tourism in Northern Thailand
This study examines how tourists experience authenticity and the ethics of “hill tribe” trekking in northern Thailand, and what they learn as a result of their touristic encounters. A “netnography” methodology was used to analyze on-line data from travelers’ touristic encounters with highland people in two sites. The first was the on-line reviews, blogs, and videos of travelers’ experiences in Baan Tong Luang, a multi-ethnic “hill tribe village” …
Culinary tourism as living history
This study examined how a cooking school in Thailand acted as a site of living history in its staging and touristic experience of authenticity. The cooking school was one of the oldest, most visited and most comprehensively “staged” cooking schools in Bangkok. Research focused on understanding: (a) the nature of spatial and temporal staging of authenticity in the school, (b) tourists’ perceptions of authenticity and (c) parallels between the cook…
Minority education in China
This edited collection of papers on the status of ‘minority education’ in China is a welcome critical contribution to policy and pedagogy debates on multicultural education, bilingual education, tr
Modernisation theory, ecotourism policy, and sustainable development for poor countries of the global South
Despite its popularity as a strategy for sustainable development in the global South, ecotourism has had a mixed record in enhancing the socio-economic conditions of the rural populace. We argue that part of this failure lies in the fact that the theory and practice of ecotourism, like conventional mass tourism, has been guided by a modernisation approach to development. In this paper, we outline the historical evolution of ecotourism policy in N…
A geography of ecotourism in Cambodia
Tourism visits to Cambodia have expanded rapidly, with over 5 million visitors arriving in the country by 2016. Angkor Wat remains the primary tourist attraction, but increasing numbers of tourists also visit ecotourism destinations. This study draws on Weaver’s [(2002). Asian ecotourism: Patterns and themes. Tourism Geographies, 4(2), 153–172] spatial and structural analysis of ecotourism in Asia as an organizing framework to develop a geography…
Learning about social movements through news media
This article critically examines how news media, as a form of public pedagogy, functioned to ‘educate’ the public about the Standing Rock pipeline protests in North Dakota, USA. Drawing on literature in public pedagogy, social movement learning and communication studies, we employed ethnographic content analysis to identify emergent patterns, emphases and themes in all online media coverage by the New York Times and Fox News of the Standing Rock …
Unsettling allyship, unlearning and learning towards decolonising solidarity
Social movements are pedagogical spaces for collective learning across difference. Divergent worldviews, interest and identity, historical legacies and relations of power complicate notions of allyship and solidarity for common cause. In this article, we draw on social movement and transformative learning to reflect on our experiences of learning and unlearning as white settler-colonialists researching allyship in the Standing Rock struggle again…
Community-based ecotourism and the transformative learning of homestay hosts in Cambodia
Ecotourism seldom places humans within the natural environments which serve as ecotourism attractions. Scholarship on learning and education in ecotourism has accordingly focused mostly on visitor learning about wildlife, biodiversity and adventure experiences in ‘pristine’ natural ecosystems. By contrast, community-based ecotourism (CBE) involves local and Indigenous communities living within natural environments. CBE aims not only to preserve n…
Political Posters, the Soviet Enlightenment and the Construction of a Learning Society, 1917-1928
This paper explores the construction of a Soviet learning society represented in Soviet political posters during the first decade after the 1917 Socialist Revolution. The theoretical framework is based on studies of learning societies, lifelong education and learning, Soviet education, and the theory of multiple modernities. We employed a post-structuralist discourse analysis that allowed us to explore verbal and non-verbal poster elements to ide…
Learning towards decolonising relationships at standing rock
The opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline that took place at Standing Rock in North Dakota was the largest gathering of Indigenous Peoples in recent U.S. history. Thousands of people, Indigenous and otherwise, came together from across North America and beyond to protect waters and sacred sites threatened by the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. Our study examined the learning of Canada-based pipeline activists who travelled to S…
Ecopedagogy
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