I obtained my PhD in Human Geography in 1998 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In the context of an increasingly distressed, divided and unsustainable world, my research passion lies in critical praxis and action research that can bring us more just and hopeful futures. I began my academic career as a (post)modern critical theorist who pessimistically observed structural socio-spatial inequalities produced by the overarching capitalist patriarchical framework within which our world operates. Yet, in the course of my progressive frustration of ‘only-marking-and-not-making-a-difference’ I have moved to the transmodern and transdiciplinary space of commitment to the hopeful scholarship and caring action that awakens the power of individual agency. I have been translating these theoretical ideas into the areas of critical tourism studies, women’s empowerment and transformative education, and in empirical terms into my own classroom as well as in various action oriented projects in ‘peripheral’ communities of Croatia and India. I am one of the founders of the Critical Tourism Studies network dedicated to promoting the ‘academy of hope’ concept. Furthermore I am the author/editor of 3 books and 3 special issues of scientific journals and 40 refereed journal articles, invited essays and chapters in edited volumes.
Research interests
Trans-disciplinary engagement in pursuing:
- Critical praxis and action research
- Critical tourism studies and academy of hope
- Empowerment and transformative education (for developing sustainability of humanity)
- Women leadership and caring action/feminist politics and praxis
Service in academic bodies
Selected publications
Books
- Hannam, K. and Ateljevic, I. (eds.) (2008) Backpacker Tourism: Concepts and Profiles. Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Ateljevic, I., Pritchard, A. and Morgan, N. (eds.) (2007) The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Innovative Research Methodologies. Advanced Social Science Series. Oxford: Elsevier.
- Pritchard, A., Morgan, N., Ateljevic, I. and Harris, C. (eds.) (2007) Tourism and Gender: Essays on embodiment, sensuality and experience. Wallingford: CAB International.
Articles and essays in international peer-reviewed journals
- Hollinshead, K., Ateljevic, I. and Ali, N. (2009) Worldmaking Agency-Worldmaking Authority: The Sovereign Constitutive Role of Tourism. Tourism Geographies special issue: Worldmakings of Tourism 11 (4) 427-443.
- Ateljevic, I., Hollinshead, K. and Ali, N. (2009) Endnote — Tourism and Worldmaking: Where do We Go From Here? Tourism Geographies special issue: Worldmakings of Tourism 11 (4) 546-552.
- Ateljevic, I., Harris, C., Wilson, E. and Collins, F. (2005) Getting ‘Entangled’: Reflexivity and the ‘Critical Turn’ in Tourism Studies. Tourism Recreation Research special issue: Tourism Research 30 (2) 9-21.
- Ateljevic, I., and Doorne, S. (2005) Dialectics of Authentification: Performing ‘Exotic Otherness’ in a Backpacker Enclave of Dali, China. Tourism and Cultural Change 3 (1) 1-27.
- Ateljevic, I., and Doorne, S. (2005) Culture, economy and tourism commodities: Social relations of production and consumption. Tourist Studies 3 (2) 55-76.
- Ateljevic, I., and Doorne, S. (2003) Unpacking the local: A cultural analysis of tourism entrepreneurship in Murter, Croatia. Tourism Geographies 5 (2) 123-150.
- Doorne, S., Ateljevic, I. and Bai, Z. (2003) Representing identities through tourism: Encounters of ethnic minorities in Dali, Yunnan Province. International Journal of Tourism Research 5 (1) 1-11.
- Harris, C. and Ateljevic, I. (2003) Perpetuating the Male Gaze as the Norm: Challenges for ‘Her’ Participation in Business Travel. Tourism Recreation Research special issue "Gender and Tourism: 10 years on" 28 (2) 21-30.
Guest editing of special issues of journals
- Ateljevic, I., Hollinshead, K. and Ali, N. (2009) Special Issue of Tourism Geographies: Worldmakings of Tourism 11 (4) 427-552.
- Pritchard, A., Morgan, N., Ateljevic. I. and Harris, C. (2005) Special issue of Tourist Studies: Embodiment, Gender, Sexuality 5 (3) 203-303.
- Ateljevic, I. and Pritchard, A. (2006) Special Issue of Tourism: Tourism, Gender and Sexuality 54 (1) 1-92.
Book chapters
- Ateljevic, I. (2009) Transmodernity – remaking our (tourism) world? In: Philosophical Issues of Tourism / Tribe, J. (ed.) Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Ateljevic, I. (2009) We need more moon energy: Feminine voices quietly creating a new trans-modern world. In: Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective: Voicing Feminist Concerns / Jambresic-Kirin, R. and Prlenda, S. (eds) Zagreb: Institute for Ethnology and Folklore and Center for Women Studies.
- Peeters, L.W.J. and Ateljevic, I. (2009) Women Empowerment - Entrepreneurship Nexus in Tourism: Processes of Social Innovation. In: Tourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives / Ateljevic, J. and Page, S. (eds) Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.
- Ateljevic, I. and Peeters, L.W.J. (2008) The hybrid specialties and interdisciplinarity of social science: A case of the tourism studies field. In: Landscape, Leisure and Tourism: Socio-Spatial Studies in Experiences, Practises and Policies / De Haan, H. and Van der Duim, R. (eds) Delft: Eburon.
- Wilson, E. and Ateljevic, I. (2008) Challenging the ‘tourist-other’ dualism: gender, backpackers and the embodiment of tourism research. In: Backpacker Tourism: Concepts and Profiles / Hannam, K. and Ateljevic, I. (eds) Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Hannam, K. and Ateljevic, I. (2008) Introduction: Conceptualising and profiling backpacker tourism. In: Backpacker Tourism: Concepts and Profiles / Hannam, K. and Ateljevic, I. (eds) Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Ateljevic, I. and Hannam, K. (2008) Conclusion: Towards a critical agenda for backpacker tourism. In: Backpacker Tourism: Concepts and Profiles / Hannam, K. and Ateljevic, I. (eds) Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Corak, S. And Ateljevic, I. (2008) Colonisation and ‘taking the waters’ in the 19th century: The patronage of royalty in health resorts of Opatija, Hasburg Empire and Rotorua, New Zealand. In: Royal Tourism: Excursions around Monarchy / Long, P. and Palmer, N. (eds) Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Ateljevic, I. and Hall, D. (2007) Tourism Embodiment of the Macho Gaze in the South-Eastern Europe: Performing masculinity and femininity in Albania and Croatia. In: Tourism and Gender: Essays on embodiment, sensuality and experience / Pritchard, A., Morgan, N., Ateljevic, I. and Harris, C. (eds) Wallingford: CAB International.
- Harris, C., Wilson, E. and Ateljevic, I. (2007) Structural entanglements and the Strategy of udiencing as a reflexive Technique. In: The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Exploring Innovative Methodologies / Ateljevic, I., Pritchard, A. and Morgan, N. (eds) Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.
- Ateljevic, I. and Corak, S. (2006) New Croatia in the new Europe: Culture versus Conformity. In: Tourism in the New Europe: The Challenges and Opportunities of EU Enlargement / Hall, D., Marciszewska, B. and Smith, M. (eds) Wallingford: CAB International.
- Ateljevic, I. and Doorne, S. (2005) Tourism as a Performance: Enacting Backpacker Tourism in Fiji. In: Discourse, Communication and Tourism / Jaworski, A. and Pritchard, A. (eds) Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Ateljevic, I. and Doorne, S. (2004) Theoretical Encounters: A Review of Backpacker Literature. In: The Global Nomad: Backpacker Travel in Theory and Practice / Richards, G. and Wilson, J. (eds) Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
- Ateljevic, I. and Doorne, S. (2004) Cultural Circuits of Tourism: Commodities, Place and Re-Consumption. In: A Companion to Tourism / Lew, A.A., Hall. C.M, and Williams, A.W. (eds) Oxford: Blackwell.
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Research projects to date
Theoretical Projects
Critical Praxis Projects
Policy-oriented Projects
Action-research Projects
Teaching
Postgraduate supervision
| Nelly Maliva Bisanda |
Conceptualisation of Women Economic Participation in
Tourism Industry in Tanzania (2010-2014)
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| Maartje Bulkens |
The verbalisation of cultural landscapes: research into the
multiple meanings of cultural landscapes in the Netherlands,
and how these are expressed in language (2009-2013)
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| Syed Sirrul Mowla Sadrul Huda |
A comparative Analysis of the Leisure Practises of Male and Female Executives Working in the Government and Private Sector related to Work-Family Conflicts in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2008-2011) |
Esteem indicators and social relevance
Awards
Recent invited addresses and plenary lectures
Service in (inter)national academic bodies
Social impact