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Soile Veijola

Professor of Cultural Studies of Tourism

  • Yliopistonk. 8, Main Campus, Faculty of Social Sciences

    96101 Rovaniemi

    Finland

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Research interests

Her background is in sociology, feminist theories, tourism studies, and cultural studies. She has researched gender, embodiment, social formation of knowledge, dynamics and modalities of mixed team sports, tourism work, and more recently the tourist dwelling, mobile neighboring, silence and slowness in tourism, coding society, and future tourist initiatives in the undressed places of the global north. She has led research teams on Amenity Landscapes and Tourism as Work, and facilitated, since late 1990s, interdisciplinary Writing Camps around accessible and functional academic writing and thesis design.

External positions

Senior scientist, Academy of Finland

1 Aug 2006 → 31 Jan 2007

Senior Assistant, University of Lapland

1 Aug 1998 → 31 Jul 2003

Researcher, University of Helsinki

1 Jan 1995 → 31 Dec 1996

Researcher, University of Jyväskylä

1 Jun 1991 → 31 May 1992

Keywords

  • Tourism
  • Knowledge
  • Embodiment
  • Ethics
  • Silence
  • Gender
  • Dwelling
  • Measuring Methods
  • Work
  • Cultural environment

Field of science

  • Tourism research
  • Sociology
  • Gender studies

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