It is one thing to dream about it, one thing to get funding to research about it, one thing to teach about it and surely one thing to actually be the one to do it. This was a fully embodied experience for me. How could I have seen it when I first set out my … Continue reading Wageningen: my guided walking tour of the traces of the slavery and colonial past
For the third year running, there was a Keti Koti commemorative ceremony in Wageningen. I had missed the first two occasions because of my research fieldwork in Suriname in 2022 and research fieldwork in Amsterdam in 2023. Fortunately, I was able to stay local this year. Thus on Sunday 30 June 2024, I joined a … Continue reading Commemorating Keti Koti in Wageningen
Are you aware of what is ahead on 30 June / 1 July in the Netherlands? Are you resident in Wageningen or surrounding areas? Over the coming few days we will be celebrating Keti Koti in Wageningen. On the afternoon of Sunday 30 June, I will be leading an interactive guided walking tour through the … Continue reading Keti Koti 2024 in Wageningen
*Rejection Notice*You win some, you lose some. You get some, you are denied some. Back in January 2024, I applied for an NWO (Dutch Research Council) Impact Explorer grant to do some pretty cool stuff - or so I thought 😀 The decision came back today and (un)fortunately my proposal has been rejected! It is … Continue reading Rejection notice
Beyond and behind our smiles of seeing this paper published sits many years of hardwork in drafting, redrafting, writing and rewriting to get this research paper ready. It has been a great team effort and it has been a pleasure working together with Amira Benali at Aalborg University, Denmark and Ana Maria Munar at Copenhagen … Continue reading [New paper, Open Access] Beyond the Smile: The Infrapolitics of the Host in Volunteer Tourism
Last week (12 - 19 May), I got to attend the invite-only Academy conference 2024 of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism in Orlando, Florida. The conference was hosted at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management of the University of Central Florida. My attendance at this invite-only conference was on the basis that … Continue reading Award: Emerging Scholar of Distinction
Are you looking for a new podcast episode to listen? Perhaps something 'slow and low...is the way to go' kind of episode that is soothing to the ear interspersed with nuggets of knowledge and opportunity to learn something new? Well, I have sometime to offer to you. Check out my session on the Tourism Geographies … Continue reading Live and On Air: a podcast discussion on the #Yearof Return2019 paper
We come full circle. What an intense whirlwind of fieldwork in the rainy sunny city of Lisboa. I didn’t manage to tick-off the top 10 or top 20 or even the top 5 of things to do, see and experience in Lisbon. Perhaps I might have ticked-off some of the bucket list items without even … Continue reading Lisbon Letters V: Obrigado and see you again!
I had a rather early start for Day 4 of fieldwork. I was beginning to feel the intensity from the preceeding days of participant observation, interviews and conversations. I wished I could chill in bed for a while longer but that was not an option. My plan of attending an Easter Sunday Church service in … Continue reading Lisbon Letters IV: the arrival at the beginning of the end.
Day 3 of fieldwork started with rain but thankfully it did not persist for the whole morning. I had 2 main itinerary points on the agenda for the day: 1) a visit to Belém and; 2) participant observation on a 4-hour walking tour. Belém: The bus journey into Belém was quite an experience given how … Continue reading Lisbon Letters III: I came, I saw, I discovered…Akwasikrom
Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 