TBD – a South Africa interest event taking place on 2016-10-25 00:00:00 in United Kingdom
TBD
Tamás Régi (Kodolányi János University, Hungary)
Date: 25 October 2016Time: 5:00 PM
Finishes: 25 October 2016Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: 4426
Type of Event: Colloquium
Series: Anthropology of Tourism and Travel Colloquium SeriesAbout the Speaker: Tamás Régi is Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism at Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Hungary. In 2015 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. (2011) at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Later he taught at the University of Sheffield and in the Sociology Department at Keimyung University, South Korea. His main research area is the anthropology of human mobility, with a particular interest in the politics of tourism and migration in East Africa. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork among the South Ethiopian, semi-nomadic Mursi people, who currently face huge government pressure to resettlement. His current project is to investigate the possible social and cultural responses this small scale pastoral society can give under growing political pressure from the federal state.
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