Future Research
Building on a recently taught 10-day summer field school course in 2019 on “Tourism and the Senses,” my colleague Dr. Susan Frohlick and I have been developing a new line of research that examines how sensory and multimodal ethnography can help to better understand the phenomenological aspects and political economic underpinnings of tourism. How is British Columbia, especially the Central Okanagan region, packaged and sold for touristic consumption in ways that promote an embodied and multi-sensory engagement with the natural environment? How can a critical examination of tourism mobilities and place making open up new ways of thinking about the senses and social life more broadly, especially how tourism intersects with indigenous people, migration and settler colonialism in contemporary British Columbia?