KELLEE CATON

Research Fellow, SHE/HER

Kellee Caton is Professor of Tourism at Thompson Rivers University in Canada. Her research focuses on how we come to know tourism as a sociocultural phenomenon, and also on how we come to know and reshape the world through tourism—in particular, she is interested in the moral dimensions of these two epistemic processes. Kellee co-chairs the Critical Tourism Studies international network and serves on the executive of the Tourism Education Futures Initiative. She is also one of the founding scholars of tourism’s post-disciplinary movement.

Expertise: Sustainability & Equity, Moral Philosophy, Tourism Epistemology, Humanism

Contact: Kcaton@tru.ca

Selected Publications

Caton, K., Hurst, C., and Grimwood, B. (In Press). Enchantment: Feeding Care within the Cracks of Ecotourism. In D. Fennell (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Ecotourism. London: Routledge.

Caton, K. (2018). In the Forest. In Grimwood et al. (Eds.), New Moral Natures in Tourism (pp. 194–205). London: Routledge. Grimwood, B., and Caton, K. (2017). Pausing at the Intersections of Tourism Moralities and Mobilities: Some Neighbourhood History and a Traffic Report. Tourist Studies, 17, 3–16.

Caton, K. (2016). A Humanist Paradigm for Tourism Studies? Envisioning a Collective Alternative to Epistemic Literalism. In A. Munar and T. Jamal (Eds.), Tourism Research Paradigms: Critical and Emergent Knowledges (pp. 35–56). Tourism Social Science Series. Bingley, UK: Emerald.