Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

Submitted:  Sunday, 1 November 2009


Noel B. Salazar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
IMMRC, Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Leuven

Mail address
Parkstraat 45
bus 3615
B-3000
Leuven
Belgium

phone: +32 475 53.73.13
fax: +32 16 32.59.02
e-mail: noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be

Web-page:  http://kuleuven.academia.edu/NoelBSalazar


Activities: 

Ethnographic fieldwork in Tanzania (2004, 2007, 2009)

Teaching:

2007        Anthropology of Tourism in Tanzania (vocational): Guest lecturer
with Mr. Vedasto Izoba, Professional Tour Guide School, Arusha, 
Tanz.; Syllabus development, organizing lectures, leading discussion 
groups
2005        Introduction to Africa (undergraduate): Teaching assistant with
Dr. Sandra Barnes, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania; Supplementary
lectures, grading of all written assignments and exams
2005        African Wildlife Conservation (advanced undergraduate/graduate): 
Guest lecturer with Dr. Peter Rogers, Center for African Studies, U. of
Pennsylvania; Lecture and discussion on the socio-cultural aspects of 
wildlife conservation
2004        Anthropology of Tourism (vocational): Guest lecturer with Mr. Vedasto
Izoba, Professional Tour Guide School, Arusha, Tanz ; Syllabus development,
organizing lectures, leading discussion groups
2004        Popular Culture in Africa (undergraduate): Teaching fellow with
Dr. Sandra Barnes, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania; Test design 
and supplementary lectures, grading of written assignments and exams
2003        Introduction to Africa (undergraduate): Teaching fellow with 
Dr. Sandra Barnes, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania; Test design 
and supplementary lectures, grading of all written assignments and exams
1999        Psychological assistance and support for refugees & 
internally displaced people  (professional): In-house trainer for the 
Jesuit Refugee Service East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya; Workshop leader, 
preparation of materials, personal tutoring


Research interests:  

Socio-cultural anthropology: Transnationalism & cosmopolitanism; 
glocalization;  mobility (tourism and migration); identity & 
representation; critical theory; public interest ethnography; Linguistic 
anthropology: Discourse-centred approaches; multi-modal semiotics


Publications:

Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing imaginaries in tourism and beyond.  Oxford: 
Berghahn Books.  Forthcoming

Subm.       "Imaged or imagined? Cultural representations and the 
'tourismification' of peoples and places."  To appear in Cahiers 
d'Etudes Africaines.  [Theme issue]
Subm.       "Tourism development and modernity in Africa."  To appear in 
Le Bulletin de l.APAD. [Theme issue]
Subm.        "A troubled past, a challenging present, and a promising 
future: Tanzania's tourism development in perspective."  To appear in 
Tourism Review International 12(3). [Theme issue]

2008        "Representation in postcolonial analysis." In 
International Encyclopedia of the Social  Sciences. 2nd edition. 
William A. Darity, ed. Pp. 172-173, Vol. 7. Detroit: Macmillan Reference 
USA.
2007        "Towards a global culture of heritage interpretation? Evidence 
from Indonesia and  Tanzania." Tourism Recreation Research  
32(3):23-30. [Theme issue]
2007       " 'Small is successful': The lure of small-scale tourism 
development and transnational networking."  In  Sustainability, 
Profitability and Successful Tourism. Aparna Raj, ed. Pp. 396-420. 
New Delhi: Kanishka.
2006        "Touristifying Tanzania: Local guides, global discourse." 
Annals of Tourism Research  33(3): 833-852.