Noel B. Salazar

Noel B. Salazar (born 1973) is a sociocultural anthropologist known for his transdisciplinary work on mobility and travel, the local-to-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of 'Otherness', heritage, cultural brokering, cosmopolitanism and endurance.

Noel B. Salazar
Salazar in 2010
EducationB.Sc., University of Leuven (1993)
M.Sc., University of Essex (1998)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2008)
OccupationAnthropologist
Known forsocial and cultural anthropology, (im)mobility, travel, heritage, imaginaries
Notable work
Momentous Mobilities (2018), Envisioning Eden (2010)

Life

Noel B. Salazar was born in Dunkirk, France, of a Spanish father and a Belgian mother. He grew up in the historical Flemish town of Bruges, a celebrated cultural tourism destination. Salazar studied psychology, philosophy, and development studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), neuropsychology at the University of Essex (UK), and anthropology and African studies at the University of Pennsylvania (United States). He is research professor in anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Leuven, where he founded CuMoRe (Cultural Mobilities Research).[1] His ethnographic fieldwork so far has focused on Indonesia, Tanzania, Chile and Belgium. Salazar currently lives in Brussels, the "capital of Europe", together with his spouse and two daughters.

Theory

Noel B. Salazar's main research interests include anthropologies of (im)mobility and travel, the local-to-global nexus, discourses and imaginaries of alterity, cultural brokering, cosmopolitanism and endurance. His anthropological work synthesizes ethnographic findings with conceptual frameworks developed within anthropology, sociology, geography, cultural studies, tourism studies, philosophy and psychology. Salazar has won numerous grants for his research projects (including from the National Science Foundation, the EU Seventh Framework Programme, and FWO).[2][3][4]

While at the University of Pennsylvania, Salazar experienced first-hand the benefits of transdisciplinary research. His involvement within the Department of Anthropology's Public Interest Anthropology project taught him the necessity of bridging the divide between academia and the wider public. Together with archaeologist Benjamin W. Porter, now professor at the Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley, he applied the public interest perspective to heritage tourism.[5][6] Understanding the changing meaning and value of (intangible) cultural heritage is still high on his research agenda.[7] It forms part of Salazar's broader work within the subfield of the anthropology of tourism.[8] He uses the findings from his intended ethnographic fieldwork to shift the predominant focus in tourism studies on tourist and impact studies to a study of tourism service providers, showing their crucial role as intermediaries.[9][10][11][12] In his book, Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond (2010), he critically analyses the circulation and dynamics of tourism imaginaries, illustrated with ethnographic data from Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Arusha (Tanzania).[13]

One of Salazar's key concepts is the one of imaginaries, which he describes as "culturally shared and socially transmitted representational assemblages that are used as meaning-making devices (mediating how people act, cognize, and value the world)".[14][15] He is currently using this concept to research the role of dominant discourses and images of (im)mobility in cultures across the globe.[16] [17] Salazar conceives mobility as a locally circulating socio-cultural construct that positively values the ability to move, the freedom of movement, and the tendency to change easily or quickly. Salazar tries to bridge the academic gap between tourism and migration studies by studying the analytical purchase of (im)mobility as an overarching concept.[18][19] More concretely, his cultural mobilities research helps us to understand the complex (dis)connections between tourism imaginaries and ideas of transcultural migration. This work happens in close collaboration with established anthropologists such as Nina Glick Schiller (University of Manchester), Nelson H. H. Graburn (University of California, Berkeley) and Alan Smart (University of Calgary).[20][21][22]

Publications

Monographs

Edited volumes

Special journal issues

Journal articles (selection)

Service

Noel B. Salazar serves on the editorial boards of, among others, American Anthropologist,[23] Journal of Sustainable Tourism,[24] Transfers,[25] and Applied Mobilities.[26] He is editor of the Worlds in Motion Book Series (Berghahn).[27] From 2011 until 2015, he served on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.[28] In 2013, Salazar was elected as President of the association. Within EASA, he founded the Anthropology and Mobility Network (AnthroMob).[29] In 2018, he was elected as Secretary-General of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences[30] for a five-year period, after having served a five-year term as Vice-President of the organization. Between 2013 and 2018, he was also a member of the Young Academy of Belgium.[31] Salazar regularly travels around the world as a keynote speaker to present his work (in English, Spanish, French and Dutch).

Salazar is a founding member of the American Anthropological Association Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (USA).[32] From 2012 until 2018, he was chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.[33] He is an expert member of the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee[34] and the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network 'Culture, Tourism and Development'.[35] In addition, Salazar is on UNESCO's and UNWTO's official roster of consultants. He has applied his expertise on tour guiding by giving professional tour guide trainings, and this in countries as varied as China, Indonesia, Tanzania, Malawi, and Belgium.

gollark: ARE you invisible? I haven't checked.
gollark: Only if you're invisible.
gollark: I may have phrased that badly, but you mentioned that last time you were on here and something something conversation.
gollark: Hmm, I see you exist again. Did you end up exacting horrible vengeance on your friend?
gollark: According to this, you spoke a bit about 6 months ago and then came back here and started asking questions about smoke detectors. Weird.

References
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  6. Porter, Benjamin W.; Salazar, Noel B. (2005). "Heritage Tourism, Conflict, and the Public Interest: An Introduction". International Journal of Heritage Studies. 11 (5): 361–370. doi:10.1080/13527250500337397.
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  10. Salazar, Noel B. (2006). "Touristifying Tanzania". Annals of Tourism Research. 33 (3): 833–852. doi:10.1016/j.annals.2006.03.017.
  11. Salazar, Noel B. (29 December 2008). ""Enough stories!"Asian tourism redefining the roles of Asian tour guides". Civilisations. Revue Internationale d'Anthropologie et de Sciences Humaines (57): 207–222. doi:10.4000/civilisations.1387. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  12. Salazar, Noel B. (2012). "Community-based cultural tourism: issues, threats and opportunities". Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 20: 9–22. doi:10.1080/09669582.2011.596279.
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  20. Glick Schiller, Nina; Salazar, Noel B. (2013). "Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe" (PDF). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 39 (2): 183–200. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2013.723253.
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