Dr Kevin Meethan

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Sociology, School of Social Science and Social Work (Faculty of Health, Education and Society)
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Telephone: +441752585817
Email: K.Meethan@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

Qualifications & background

1979 - 1982 University of Sussex: BA (Hons) Social Anthropology

1984 - 1989 University of Sussex: PhD. Social Anthropology

1998 University of Plymouth: Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Professional membership
Member of the International Sociological Association

Roles on external bodies
Vice President (Publications ) of ISA Research Committee 50, International Tourism;
member of the Royal Anthropological Society's Resarch Committee on Tourism; member of the ESRC Review College; member of the editorial board for Cultural Sociology and Tourism Today, and founding editor of the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice ( http://www.tourismconsumption.org )

Teaching interests
Social theory, research methods including visual methods and computer assisted qualititive data analysis, and the sociology of tourism.

Research interests

Tourism, socio-cultural change and global – local relations; the social construction of place; regeneration, cultural policy, art and the creative industries; internet use, identity and diasporas; history social memory and biography; tourism and embodiment; the use of new technologies as research methodology. These interests encompass both regional/national and international elements.

Creative practice & artistic projects

Exhibitions

Meethan, K. (2010) From Starcross to Dawlish: A photographic essay on Tourism. Video slideshow shown at the ICCI360 Festival, People, Places and Exploring New Spaces, Plymouth September 2010

Publications
Selected recent publications:

Meethan K. (2012 in press) Recording the Edges: Towards a visual ethnography of beachscapes In Andrews, H. and Roberts, L. (eds) Liminal Landscapes: Travel, experience and spaces in – between. London: Routledge

Meethan. K. (2012) Tourism, Individuation and Space. In Wilson, J., (ed) New Perspectives in Tourism Geographies London: Routledge

Meethan (2011) Narrating and Performing Tourist Space: Notes towards some conceptual and methodological issues. In Mansfield, C and Seligman, S Narrative and the Built Heritage - Papers in Tourism Research, Saarbrücken, VDM.

Meethan . K. (2010) Dubai: ‘An Exotic Destination with a Cosmopolitan Lifestyle.’ In Mosedale, J. (ed) Political Economy and Tourism: A Critical Perspective. London: Routledge.

Meethan. K. (2010) Rural Tourism Policy in the Uk. In Nigam, D. and Narula, V.K. (eds) Rural Tourism: Emerging Issues & Challenges. Shree Publishers: New Delhi

Meethan, K. (2010) Touring the Other: Buffalo Bill in Europe. In Journal of Tourism History 2, 2, 117 - 132

Conferences organised
Kevin was one of the organisers for the Consumption and Representation Confernce held at the University in 1999. He was also a member of the organising committee for the 2004 British Sociological Associations’s annual conference at York, and was a member of the organising group of the International Tourism Research Committee for the 2006 International Sociological Association conference in Durban, South Africa. In 2007 he was also on the organising committee for the Association of Social Anthropologists annual conference Thinking Through Tourism held in London.

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