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Dr Javier Caletrío

CeMoRe: Research Fellow

Degree: BA Economics, MA Sociology, PhD Sociology

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Latin America Research Cluster, Mobilities.Lab

Research Interests

After completing a Bachelor's Degree in Economics in Valencia, Spain, I studied a MA on Tourism and Leisure (with Distinction) and completed my PhD (ESRC funded) on tourism mobilities and environmental sensibilities in the Spanish Mediterranean at the Sociology Department at Lancaster. Currently I am a Research Fellow and member of the management committee of the Centre for Mobilities Research. I am also a member of the:

• Mobilities.lab;
• Task Force of Cosmobilities, a research network gathering some of the most dynamic European research centres on the social dimensions of travel and transport;
• Permanent Support Committee of Medyre, the Mediterranean Network of Young Researchers created under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

In Spring/Summer 2012 I will be a visiting fellow at the University of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) developing research on mobilities and climate change in the Mediterranean.

A first strand of my current work builds on previous research on tourism mobilities and environmental change and focuses on the role of global risks in creating shared horizons of expectation. Recent work in this area has focused on how climate change is shaping tourists' sense of place and travel aspirations.

A second strand of my research looks at elites and their role in shaping places and mobility infrastructures. I have co-organised two workshops on this topic in 2008 and 2010 and am now working on various publications.

A third strand of my research engages with debates about multiple modernities in the Mediterranean and seeks to elucidate the role of physical movement in underpinning processes of regional de/stabilization. I am particularly interested in the role of mobility in the dialectics of peace and conflict in the checkered history of Mediterranean societies. I have co-edited a special issue on forced migration with my colleagues Nick Gill and Vicky Mason. The three strands of my research are part of a long term project on mobility, cosmopolitanism and environmental change.

In order to exchange views with other scholars and organisations with an interest in the Mediterranean I am convening the networking initiative mediterranean mobilities with my colleagues Elia Ntaousani (architect and philosopher at Birbeck Colleage, University of London and Tate Modern) and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz (economist and geographer at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). The aim of this networking initiative is to promote and communicate transdiscipinary and transnational academic research on the challenges facing the Mediterranean in the 21st century. I have co-organised a Seminar Series funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Centre for Mobilities Research on Medierranean mobilities, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Science (see below).

My interest in area studies is complemented with my participation in the research team 'Tourism, Territory and New Mobilities' located at Madrid's Universidad Complutense and working on comparative studies in Spain and Mexico. The research team is led by Prof Juan Córdoba. I am also member of the Latin American Research Cluster at Lancaster University. I also collaborate with collagues from various universities in Brazil.

I have participated / am participating in various research projects in the UK and Spain including:

2010-2011 - Emerging Middle Classes and Low-Carbon Mobilities - Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro) and CeMoRe. Funded by the British Academy.

2008-2011 - Tourism, Territory and New Mobilities: Spatial and Cultural Dynamics Through a Comparative Study of Case Studies in Mexico and Spain. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciencie and Education.

2008-2009 - Climate Change, Tourism and Sense of Place in Mediterranean Seaside Resorts. Funded by European Regional Agency.

2004-2007 - Tourism and Sustainable Development: Local Effects of Global Discourse through Comparative Case Studies in Spain and México. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Sciencie and Education.

2006 - Mobilities Research in the Mediterranean. Funded by the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University.

2004-2005 - Developing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Address Environmental and Social Issues resulting from Changes in the English Lake District. ESRC.

Selected publications (since 2007)

Special Issues

Mobilities and Forced Migration, Mobilities, Vol. 6, No. 3, 301-316, September 2011 (with Nick Gill and Vicky Mason).

Tourism and the Triple Crisis, International Journal of Tourism Policy, forthcoming 2012 (with Matilde Córdoba-Azcárate and Misela Mavric).

Journal articles, book chapters and monographies

'Introduction: Mobilities and Forced Migration', Special Issue Mobilities Vol. 6, No. 3, 301-316, September 2011 (with Nick Gill and Vicky Mason).

'Simple Living and Tourism in Times of 'Austerity'', Current Issues in Tourism, forthcoming 2011.

'Tourism, Landscape Change and Critical Thresholds', Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 38, Nº 1, January 2011, Pages 313-316, 2011.

'De veraneo en la playa': pertencimento e o familiar no turismo de massa no Mediterrâneo. Estudos Históricos(Rio de Janeiro). Vol. 24No.47, Rio de JaneiroJan./June2011

'Veraneo en la playa: Belonging and the familiar in Mediterranean mass tourism'. In Pau Obrador, Mike Crang and Penny Travlou (Eds). 'Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities'. Ashgate, 2009.

'Perceptions and reality: The role of research and education'. In Jafar Jafari and Eduardo Fayos-Solà (Eds.). Climate Change and Tourism: Reality and Fiction. World Tourism Organization, 2009.

'Climate Change, Tourism and Sense of Place in Mediterranean Seaside Resorts.' Department of Sociology. Lancaster University, 2009

'Estudios Mediterráneos, Braudel y la Movilidad en las Ciencias Sociales', in Enric Olivé (Ed.). Young Researchers Thinking the Mediterranean, Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2008 (co-authored with Ramon Ribera-Fumaz).

'De la Fonda al Hotel. La gènesi d'una economia turística' (book review), Annals of Tourism Research. Vol. 34, Issue 4: 1104-1106. 2007

The title of my masters and PhD thesis are:

'Emptying Lands, Touring Landscapes: Perceptions of Changing Spatial Practices in a Rural Community', (MA Dissertation)

'A Ravaging Mediterranean Passion: Tourism and the Environment in Europe's Playground' (PhD thesis)

Journal Reviews

I have been invited to review papers for the journals Mediterranean Politics, Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association (published by California University Press) and Local Government Studies. I am also member of the panel of reviewers of the journals Body & Society and Annals of Tourism Research.

Recent Conference papers

Policy debates

Roundtable The Emerging Academic Space in the Mediterranean. Euro-Mediterranean Permanent University Forum. University de Saint Joseph, Beirut, 25 October 2009

Academic

'Mass tourism in the Mediterranean', PhD Seminar Fundaçao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, 5 September 2011.

'On the beach, waiting for catastrophe: Time, tourism and climate change.' Departamental Seminar, Sociology, Universidade Federale Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, 2 September 2011.

'This is not me: Conspicuous consumption and travel aspirations of the middle classes'. Emerging Middle Classes and Low Carbon Mobilities Workshop 2. Rio de Janeiro, 29 August - 1 September 2011.

'On the beach, waiting for catastrophe: Time, tourism and climate change.' Emerging Middle Classes and Low Carbon Mobilities Workshop 1. Lancaster, 15-17 February 2011.

'Low carbon tourist practices and landscape change.' CERES (Centre d'Études et de Recherches Économiques et Sociales). Tunis, 9-12 March 2010.

'Mobilizing Dialogue: Mobilities Research and Interpersonal Relations across Cultural Boundaries.' Institute of Oriental Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Leipzig, 25 September 2009.

'What if Benidorm is not that bad after all?' Social and cultural limits to low carbon tourism landscapes in the Mediterranean. Urban Space and Social Inequalities Workshop. Lancaster, 5 June 2009.

'Veraneo en la playa: Belonging and the Familiar in Mediterranean Mass Tourism', Tourism, Territory and New Mobilities Conference. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2 October 2008.

'Mediterranean Cosmopolitanisms and the Mobilities Paradigm', Young Scholars Plenary Session, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Slovene Filarmonica, Ljubljana, 29 August 2008 (co-authored with Ramon Ribera-Fumaz)

'Mediterranean Studies, Braudel and the Mobilities Paradigm', Encuentro Jóvenes Investigadores del Mediterráneo, Tarragona, 3 May 2007.

'Researching Mediterranean Mobilities', CeMoRe Research Day, Lancaster, 16 May 2007.

Conference organisation

I am the co-onvenor of a seminar series on the challenges facing the Mediterranean in the 21st century. Funded by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Faculty of Arts and Scoail Sciences,and the Centre for Mobilities Research (with the additional support of Geography Department (LU), Geography Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Read more.

Caletrío, J. (2010) Workshop on Turbulent Trade Routes, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, November.

Birtchnell, T., Caletrío, J. Urry, J. (2010) Mobilities of the Super-Rich, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, September.

Caletrío, J. and Mason, V. (2010) Panel on Forced Migration and (Im)Mobilities in the Middle East, World Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona, July.

Caletrío, J. and Manderscheid, K. (2010) Cosmobilities Ad-hoc Session, Sustainable Futures and Spatial Mobility Regimes, International Sociological Association -World Congress of Sociology 2010, Gothenburg, July.

Caletrío, J. (2010) Seminar on The Limits of Hospitality. Guest speaker: Heidrun Friesse. Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster, May.

Caletrío, J., Gill, N., and Mason, V. (2009) Conference on Forced Migration and Mobilities Research, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, December.

Caletrío, J. and Medd W. (2008) Mediterranean Waters: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Urban Infrastructure and Sustainable Futures, Institute for Advanced Studies, November.

Caletrío, J. and Córdoba-Azcárate, M. (2008) Conference on Luxury Consumption and Tourism Landscapes in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, September.

Caletrío, J. and Fumaz-Ribera, R. (2007) Conference Panel 'Political Geographies of the Mediterranean', Institute of British Geographers - Royal Geographical Society, London, August.

Caletrío, J. and Tzanelli, R. (2007) Conference on Cosmopolitan Paradoxes: Migration and Emergent Systems of Transnational Rights, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, May.

Caletrío, J. and Fumaz-Ribera, R. (2006) Conference on 'Rediscovering the Mediterranean', Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, November.

Caletrío, J. (2006) Conference on 'Emerging Tourism Futures', Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster, July.

Other Interests and Hobbies

Civic engagement and other interests

Before my arrival to the UK I have been interested and actively involved in grass-roots environmental politics in Valencia and, during my years at university as an undergraduate, in promoting cultural diplomacy. I am co-founder of AEGEE-Valencia (Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l'Europe), a local branch of a European network of university students aimed at promoting cultural exchange.

One of my passions is ornithological research, some of which has been published as short notes in various bulletins, reports for environmental bodies and a co-authored paper in Global Biodiversity, the journal of the Canadian Museum of Natural History (1996, Vol 5, No 4).

Associated Keywords: Africa, Arab world, Architecture, Bodies, Brazil, Cities, Climate change, Conflict, Cross-cultural encounters, Development, Diaspora, Digital technologies, Disasters, Embodiment, Emotions and affect, Environment, Environmental discourse, Ethnography, Europeanisation, Globalisation, Globalisation & mobility, Human trafficking, ICT, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Knowledge exchange, Landscape, Latin America, Low carbon, Mediterranean, Middle East, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, Networks, Pierre Bourdieu, Postcolonial, Refugee, Regionalism, Research networks, Sociology, Technologies, Tourism, Travel, Violence

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