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Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson - Professor
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson
Íslenska
Professor
Location
Tæknigarður / TG-231
Phone
525 - 4055
Email
gtj [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Curriculum Vitae
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson - Curriculum Vitae
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0098-3265
Research portal – Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2023 - 2024
FER409G - Theories in Tourism
FER210F - Theories in Tourism Studies
LAN214F - Northern tourism: Performances and Experiences
FER214F - Sustainable Tourism Development in Northern Environment
FER614G - Career development in tourism
LAN018G - Internship for tourism and geography students
LAN218L - BS-verkefni í geography (in pairs)
LAN219L - BS-project in geography (individual)
FER208L - BS-project in tourism (in pairs)
FER209L - BS-project in tourism (individual)
FER510G - Tourism Planning and Policy
FER111F - Tourism Planning and Policy
LAN117F - Research in Geography and Tourism 1
LAN301F - Research in Geography and Tourism 3
FER113F - Graduate Field Course: Northern Tourism in Practice
LAN018G - Internship for tourism and geography students
LAN218L - BS-verkefni í geography (in pairs)
LAN219L - BS-project in geography (individual)
FER208L - BS-project in tourism (in pairs)
FER209L - BS-project in tourism (individual)
Education
2007
,
Ph.D.
,
Roskilde University
,
Ph.D in human geography and tourism studies
2003
,
M.A.
,
University of Iceland
,
M.A Anthropology
1999
,
B.A.
,
University of Iceland
,
B.A
Professional Experience
2014 -
2016,
Associate Professor,
University of Iceland Department of Geography and Tourism
2012 -
2014,
Assistant Professor,
University of Iceland Department of Geography and tourism
2007 -
2012,
Project manager,
University of Iceland Social Science Research Institute
2007 -
2011,
Part time teaching,
University of Iceland (Department of Anthropology and Department of Geography and Tourism)
2008 -
2011,
Post doc,
University of Iceland Social Science Research Institute
2010 -
2010,
Care taking director April through July,
University of Iceland Socieal Science Research Institute
Published works
2022
State and Order of Service Orientation Knowledge in Hospitality and Tourism Research: Systematic Literature Review
Administrative Sciences
Kynni unglinga af vinsælum ferðamannastöðum: Frístundir, ferðalög og menntun
Netla
2020
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries: Trends, Practices and Opportunities
Palgrave
Síkvik menning á mörkum hins meira en mennska: Ferðamennska, söfn og staðir
Íslenska Þjóðfélagið, 11 (1) 3-21
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries: Trends, Practices and Opportunities
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries: Trends, Practices and Opportunities (pp. 425-442)
Introduction
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries: Trends, Practices and Opportunities (pp. 1-18)
On the move: migrant workers in Icelandic hotels
Tourism Employment in Nordic Countries: Trends, Practices and Opportunities
Urban tourism
Handbook of Urban Mobilities (pp. 314-324)
Actor-Network Theory
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 33-40)
2019
Tending to destinations: Conceptualising tourism’s transformative capacities
Tourist Studies
Beyond Overtourism: Studying the Entanglements of Society and Tourism in Iceland
Overtourism: Excesses, Discontents and Measures in Travel and Tourism (pp. 91-106)
Looking down, staying with and moving along: Towards collaborative ways of knowing with nature in the Anthropocene
Finnish Journal of Tourism Research, 15(2) 9-17
2018
Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing
Routledge
2017
Co-creation of tourism knowledge
Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing
Bridge-builders, scouts and 'idiots': Exploring topologies of tourism student collaboration
Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing
Making matter in the midst of things: Engaging with tourism imponderables through research
Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing
Towards a collaborative manifesto: Configurations of tourism knowledge co-creation
Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing
Iceland
Sage
ANT: A decade of interfering with tourism
Annals of Tourism Research
Aurora Borealis: Choreographies of darkness and light
Annals of Tourism Research
Creative connections? Tourists, entrepreneurs and destination dynamics
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Collaborative becoming: Exploring tourism knowledge collectives
Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing
Balancing values: Co-creation in and out of academia
Co-Creating Tourism Research: Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing
Improvising Economy: Everyday Encounters and Tourism Consumption
Collaborative Economy and Tourism
2016
„Það má eitt fjall vera ósnortið fyrir þessum andskotans túristum“: Umhverfisstjórnun, náttúrutengsl og ferðamennska
Íslenska þjóðfélagið
Tourists as migrants/migrants as entrepreneurs - the agency of the visitor's eye
Mobility to the Edges of Europe: The Case of Iceland and Poland
ANT, tourism and situated globality: Looking down in the Anthropocene
Routledge
Earthly substances and narrative encounters: Poetics of making a tourism destination
Cultural Geographies
2015
Northern Lights Tourism in Iceland, Norway and Finland
Septentrio Reports
A Fish Called Tourism: Emergent Realities of Tourism Policy in Iceland
Ashgate
Postscript: Making Headways, Expanding the Field and Slowing Down
Ashgate
Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development
Ashgate
2014
Arctic Tourism: Realities & Possibilities
Arctic Yearbook 2014: Human Capital in the North
Moving Places: Multiple Temporalities of a Peripheral Tourism Destination
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Actor-Network Theory and Tourism Research: approaches: implications and future opportunities
Copenhagen Copenhagen Business School Press
Weaving with Witchcraft: Tourism and Entrepreneurship in Strandir, Iceland
Ashgate
Jóhannesson, G. T., Huijbens, E., & Sharpley, R. (2010). Icelandic Tourism: Past Directions – Future Challenges. Tourism Geographies
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration
Ylrækt rísómatískra sprota: Ferðaþjónusta í nýju ljósi
Ritið
2013
Ordering, materiality, and multiplicity: Enacting Actor-Network Theory in tourism
Tourist Studies
Tourism Resolving Crisis?
New Issues in Polar Tourism: Communities, Environments, Politics
Ferðamál á Íslandi
Mál og menning
2012
A Time to Connect? On Tourism Policy Making in Iceland
Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla
Enacting places through the connections of tourism
Mobility and Place: Enacting Northern European Peripheries
"To Get Things Done": A Relational Approach to Entrepreneurship
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, materiality and multiplicity
Routledge
2010
Emergent Vikings: The Social Ordering of Tourism Innovation
Event Management
Icelandic tourism: Past directions - future challenges
Tourism Geographies
Mannfræði fyrir byrjendur
Mál og menning
Emergent vikings: The social ordering of tourism innovation
Event Management
Tourism in times of crisis: Exploring the discourse of tourism development in Iceland
Current Issues in Tourism
2008
Enacting Places through Connections of Tourism
Mobility and Place: Enacting European Peripheries.
2005
Hreyfingar ferðaþjónustu: Skipun þróunarverkefnis í ferðaþjónustu á Vestfjörðum
Landabréfið
Tourism Translations: Actor-Network Theory and tourism research
Tourist Studies
2003
Coping With Social Capital? The Cultural Economy of Tourism in The North
Sociologia Ruralis
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