Meghan L Muldoon

Dr Meghan L Muldoon

Dr Meghan L Muldoon

Meghan Mul­doon is an assist­ant pro­fess­or in the School of Com­munity Resources & Devel­op­ment at Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity now work­ing at Hain­an Uni­ver­sity — Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity Joint Inter­na­tion­al Tour­ism Col­lege in Hain­an, China.

Dr Mul­doon obtained her PhD from the Depart­ment of Recre­ation & Leis­ure Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Water­loo, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include lim­in­al tour­ist­ic encoun­ters, post­co­lo­ni­al­ism, tour­ism and poverty, fem­in­isms, and arts-based meth­od­o­lo­gies. A qual­it­at­ive research­er with a grow­ing inter­na­tion­al repu­ta­tion in the field of crit­ic­al tour­ism stud­ies, Meghan has pas­sion for travel, camp­ing, and cross­word puzzles.

Meghan has also writ­ten for The “GT” Travel Blog.

Taming the beautiful monster: What ‘critical tourism studies’ means to me

March 23, 2021
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Some observ­ers of the ‘cul­ture wars’ in the west will be sus­pi­cious of the word ‘crit­ic­al’ in aca­dem­ic con­texts due to con­tro­ver­sial ‘crit­ic­al the­ory’ and its influ­ence. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Meghan L Mul­doon explains what ‘crit­ic­al tour­ism stud­ies’ means to her. (And can a crit­ic­al tour­ism schol­ar love trav­el­ling? Dr Mul­doon does.) [Thanks to […]

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