Tim Oakes
Department of Geography
University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 260
Boulder, CO  80309
303-492-8310 (office) 303-492-7501 (fax)
E-mail: toakes@colorado.edu


EDUCATION
1995.  PhD, Geography, University of Washington.
1991. MA, Geography, University of Washington.
1987. BA, East Asian Studies, Colby College, Waterville, ME.


ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Academic positions
Current. Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Current. Chair, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder
2003-2008. Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Guizhou Nationalities Institute, Guiyang, China.
2003-2004. Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney.
1996. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Iowa.

Other professional affiliations
2000-2006. Research Associate, Center for China-US Cooperation, University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies.

1996-2004. Research Fellow, Center for Research on Provincial China, University of New South Wales.


PUBLICATIONS
Books
1998. Tourism and Modernity in China (London and New York: Routledge).

Edited Books
2008 [with Patricia Price] The Cultural Geography Reader (London and New York: Routledge).

2007 [with Wu Xiaoping] 屯堡重塑：贵州的文化旅游与社会变迁 [Reinventing Tunpu: Cultural Tourism and Social Change in Guizhou] (Guiyang: Guizhou Renmin Chubanshe).

2006 [with Claudio Minca] Travels in Paradox: Remapping Tourism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).

2006 [with Louisa Schein] Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space (London and New York: Routledge).

 

Refereed journal articles

2006. Cultural strategies of development: implications for village governance in China. Pacific Review 19(1): 13-37. Reprinted in L.C. Li (ed.), State in the Making (London and New York: Routledge, 2008). Translated as 经济发展的文化战略及其对农村治理的影响 and reprinted in L. Guang et al. (eds.), 乡村中国：改革中的农村, 农民和农业 [The State of Rural China: Peasants, Agriculture, and Rural Society in the Reform Era] (Hong Kong: Time Tide Publishing, 2006), pp. 285-308. Translation reprinted in吴毅 [Wu Yi] (ed.), 乡村中国评论 [Rural China Review] 2 (Jinan: Shandong Renmin Chubanshe, 2007), pp. 224-239.

2004. Building a southern dynamo: Guizhou and state power.  The China Quarterly 178 (June): 467-487. Revised and reprinted in D.S.G. Goodman (ed.), China’s Campaign to ‘Open Up the West’: National, Provincial, and Local Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 153-173.

2004. Capitalizing Asian Studies: scholarship and the production of knowledge in a globalizing world.  Portal: A Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 1(1) <http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/portal/viewarticle.php?id=9>

2003. [with Louisa Schein] Introduction: Reimagining Chinese mobilities and spaces. Provincial China 8(1): 1-4.

2002. Dragonheads and needlework: textile work and cultural heritage in a Guizhou county.  Provincial China 7(2): 151-177. Reprinted in Hong Kong Baptist University Center for Urban and Regional Studies Occasional Paper Series No. 22 (June).

2000. China’s provincial identities: reviving regionalism and reinventing “Chineseness.”  The Journal of Asian Studies 59(3), 667-92. Reprinted in J.N. Entrikin (ed.), Regions: Critical Essays in Human Geography (London: Ashgate, 2008).

1999. Eating the food of the ancestors: place, tradition, and tourism in a Chinese frontier river town. Ecumene 6:2, 123-145.

1999. Bathing in the Far Village: globalization, transnational capital, and the cultural politics of modernity in China. Positions: East Asia cultures critique 7:2, 31-66.

1997. Place and the paradox of modernity. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87:3, 509-531.

1995. Shen Congwen’s literary regionalism and the gendered landscape of Chinese modernity. Geografiska Annaler B 77:2, 93-107.

1993. The cultural space of modernity; ethnic tourism and place identity in China. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 11:1, 47-66.

1992. Cultural geography and Chinese ethnic tourism. Journal of Cultural Geography 12:2, 3-17.

 

Refereed book chapters

2007. Welcome to paradise! A Sino-American joint venture project,” in L. Jensen and T. Weston (eds.), China's Transformations: The Stories Beyond the Headlines (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 240-264.

2006. Get real! On being yourself and being a tourist. In C. Minca and T. Oakes (eds.), Travels in Paradox: Remapping Tourism (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 229-250.

2006. Introduction: traveling paradoxes. In C. Minca and T. Oakes (eds.), Travels in Paradox: Remapping Tourism (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 1-21.

2006. The village as theme park: authenticity and mimesis in Chinese tourism.  In T. Oakes and L. Schein (eds.), Translocal China: Linkages, Identities, and the Reimagining of Space (London and New York: Routledge), 166-192.

2006. [with Louisa Schein] Translocal China: an introduction. In T. Oakes and L. Schein (eds.), Translocal China: Linkages, Identities, and the Reimagining of Space (London and New York: Routledge), 1-35.

2005. The story of secretary Wang – hero, savior, liar, scoundrel.  In Narratives of Reform, ed. D. Solinger (Lewiston, NY: Mellen). Reprinted in The University of California International and Area Studies (UCIAS) Global Field Notes, No. 5 (2005) http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucias/gfn/5.

2005. Land of living fossils: excavating cultural prestige in China’s periphery.  In Locating China: Space, Place, and Popular Culture, ed. J. Wang (London and New York: Routledge).

2005. Tourism and the modern subject: placing the encounter between tourist and other.  In The Seductions of Place, eds. C. Cartier and A. Lew (London and New York: Routledge).

2002.  [with Mike Longan] Geography’s conquest of history in The Diamond Age.  In Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction, eds. R. Kitchin and J. Kneale, 39-56 (London: Continuum).

2000. China’s market reforms:  whose human rights problem?  In China Beyond the Headlines, eds. T. Weston and L. Jensen, 295-326 (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield).

1999.  Selling Guizhou: cultural development in an era of marketization. In The Political Economy of China’s Provinces, eds. H. Hendrischke and C.Y. Feng, 27-67 (London and New York:  Routledge).

1997.  Ethnic tourism in rural Guizhou; sense of place and the commerce of authenticity.  In Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies, eds. M. Picard, and R. Wood, 35-70 (Honolulu:  University of Hawaii).

1994. Tourism in Guizhou; the legacy of internal colonialism.  In Tourism in China, eds. A. Lew and L. Yu, 203-222 (Boulder, CO:  Westview).

 

Non-refereed articles, book chapters, and invited contributions

2008. “Asia,” in The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (Oxford: Elsevier).

2008. “Theme Parks,” in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, eds. A. Ariye and P.Y. Saunier (London: Palgrave).

2004. [with Claudio Minca] Tourism, modernity, and postmodernity.  In Companion to Tourism Geography, eds. C.M. Hall, A. Lew, and A. Williams (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 280-290.

2004. House and heritage.  The Primary Geographer 54 (April): 24-26.

2003. 主题公园式的村庄：中国旅游业的模仿及真实性 [Theme park villages – authenticity and models of Chinese tourism]. In 民族旅游的社会学研究 [Social Research on Ethnic Tourism], ed. X. Wu (Guiyang: Guizhou Minzu Chubanshe), 1-30.

2000.  Entries for “Ethnic tourism,” “Ethnicity,” and “Identity” in The Encyclopedia of Tourism, ed. J. Jafari (London and New York: Routledge), 254, 256, and 408.

 

Guest-edited journal issues

2003. [with Louisa Schein] Reimagining Chinese mobilities and spaces. Provincial China 8(1).

 

Invited web publications

2003-05. Unit updates and new units for Thinking Critically on the Web: web-based interactive critical thinking units for World Regional Geography, 2nd       and 3rd editions, by L. Pulsipher (New York: W.H. Freeman): http://www.whfreeman.com/pulsipher2e/

2002. [with Chris McMorran] Thinking critically on the web:  web-based interactive critical thiinkinig units for World Regional Geography, 2nd editiion, by L. Pulsipher (New York: W.H. Freeman): http://www.whfreeman.com/pulsipher2e/

 

Invited reviews and review essays

2008. Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China, by Beth Notar. In Pacific Affairs.

2007. Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895, by Emma Jinhua Teng.  In H-Net Reviews http://www.h-net.org/reviews

2006. Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings: Negotiating Cultural Identities in China, by Mary Rack. In Gender, Place, and Culture 13:2 (April), 187-189.

2003. The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China, by Chris Coggins.  In Pacific Affairs 76:4 (Winter, 2003), 644-646.

2002. Portraits of 'Primitives': Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation, by Susan D. Blum.  In The China Quarterly 170: 494-496.

2001. Tourism and Local Economic Development in China by Gang Xu.  In The China Quarterly 165: 202-203.

2001. Tourism and Modernity: A Sociological Analysis by Ning Wang.  In Tourism Geographies 3(2): 241-248.

2000. Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century by Hanchao Lu.  In Geographical Review 90(1): 140-42.

1996. China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry Into the Limits of National Development by Vaclav Smil.  In Chinese Environment and Development 7(4).

1996. Orientalism, Postmodernism, & Globalism by Bryan S. Turner.  In Ecumene 3(2): 227-229.

 

Other publications

2005. Should universities be societies in miniature? Denver Post (Sunday, March 20), p. 4E.

 

In Preparation / Under Review

Connections: A Concepts Approach to Global Geography [with Patricia Price], a world regional geography textbook project currently contracted with Prentice Hall, Inc.

Faiths on Display: Tourism and Religion in China [with Donald Sutton], an edited volume under preparation.

Trading in Places: Regionalism and Identity in Post-Revolutionary China a manuscript in preparation.

Enterprising Culture: The Production of Heritage in Rural China a manuscript in preparation.

RESEARCH GRANTS
Awarded
2007. University of Colorado, ASC Dean’s Fund for Excellence, $1,000: “Reinventing Tunpu: Social Change and Cultural Tourism in Guizhou.”

2006. American Council of Learned Societies, Chinese Fellows for Scholarly Development Award: $25,000 for collaborative research with Wu Xiaoping, “Resourcing Culture: regional strategies of cultural development in China.”

2005. University of Colorado, ASC Dean’s Fund for Excellence, $700: “The Politics of Promoting Yelang.”

2003. National Science Foundation, $54,075: “Regional development and the reinvention of local culture in China: the case of Tunbao heritage.”
2000. University of Colorado UROP Research Assistantship, $1,050:  “Cultural regionalism in China’s interior.”
2000. University of Colorado CRCW Grant-in-Aid, $5,000:  “Cultural regionalism in China’s interior.”
1998. University of Colorado CRCW Summer Session Research Grant, $4,000: “Commercial crafts production in rural China.”
1997. University of Colorado College of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s Summer Research Stipend; $4,460: “Tourism and Modernity in China.”
1993. National Academy of Sciences Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, Dissertation Research Grant (funded by US Information Agency); national competition, $12,435: “Ethnic Tourism and the Political Economy of Culture Change in SW China.”
1993. National Science Foundation, Dissertation Research Improvement Award; national competition, $9,028: “Ethnic Tourism and the Political Economy of Culture Change in SW China.”
1987. Thomas J. Watson Fellowship; national competition, $13,000: “Modernization and economic reform along the route of the Long March in China.”

RECENT PRESENTATIONS (Past 5 Years)
Presentations at professional meetings
2007, April. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.  Presented “Welcome to Paradise! Domestic Tourism and the Myth of the Frontier in China.”

2005, August. Tunpu Culture Conference, Anshun City Government, Anshun, Guizhou.  Presented “Tunpu Cultural Tourism and Tunpu Cultural Change.”

2005, July. International Symposium on “The Third Space of the Commons and the Reform Policies of China,” School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, People’s University, Beijing.  Presented “Cultural strategies of development: implications for village governance in China.”

2005, May. Overseas Young Chinese Forum 7th Annual Meeting, “The State of Rural China: Chinese Peasants, Agriculture and Rural Society in the Reform Era,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT: presented “Village Theme Parks: How Rural Chinese are Negotiating the Tyranny of Heritage.”

2005, March. Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL: “Dancing the spirits, invoking the ancestors: contested claims of origin and identity among Guizhou’s tunpu people”

2003, July.  Biennial Meetings of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, Syndey, NSW.  “Building a southern dynamo: Guizhou and state power.”
2003, March.  Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA.  “Environment and energy in China’s ‘Go West’ Campaign.”
2003, March. Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, NY: “Authenticity and mimesis in Chinese tourism.”

Invited lectures and colloquia
2008, February. Vassar College: “Tourism and heritage on China’s frontier: state, villagers, and the commercialization of ritual.”

2007, November. University of Wyoming, UW Geography Awareness Week Keynote Address: “Does Asia Exist?”

2007, November. Rikkyo Amusement Research Centre (RARC), Rikkyo University, Tokyo & Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London; Seminar on “Retracing modern tourism: From mass tourism to tourism studies”; London, UK.  Presented “Tourism and Modernity.”

2007, February. Florida International University, Ruth K. & Shepard Broad Educational Series: “Adventures in Frontierland: The Place of Utopia in China’s Campaign to Open Up the West.”

2007, February. University of Colorado Center for Asian Studies Spring Luncheon Speaker Series: “Welcome to Paradise! Domestic Tourism and the Myth of the Frontier in China.”

2007, January. University of Oregon, Department of Geography: “Resourcing Culture in Rural China: the New Reformer’s Science.”

2006, October. Metro State College Denver, 9th Annual Honors Conference: “East Asia: A Changing Balance of Power.”  Presented “Rural Development in China.”

2005, March. Colorado State University, Symposium on China.  Presented “China’s Campaign to Open Up the West.”

2004. November.  University of Colorado, Department of Geography Fall Colloquium Series.  Presented “Hero, Savior, Liar, Scoundrel: The True Story of an Unrestrained Capitalist in China’s Cultural Economy.”

2004, May. Guizhou Nationalities Institute, inaugural lecture of 2004 speaker series on Cultural Traditions and Economic Development.  Presented “Culture and Local Development” (in Chinese).
2004, April. University of Melbourne Department of Political Science, Melbourne, Victoria.  Presented “Village theme parks: authenticity and mimesis in Chinese tourism.”
2003, December. University of Otago Department of Tourism, Dunedin, New Zealand 2003 seminar series.  Presented “Land of Living Fossils: Reinventing Heritage in China's Peripheries.”
2003, November. Center for Tourism Research and Planning, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China.  Presented: “Tunpu cultural tourism” (in Chinese).

Invited panels, workshops and symposia
2007, April. Center to Advance Research & Teaching in the Social Sciences Conference on “Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: A Transatlantic Conversation”, Boulder, CO. Roundtable discussion on “Methods for Multiculturalism Research.”

2007, April. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA: Panel on “Neoliberal China?”

2007, April. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA: Panel on “Three Decades of Research on China since the 1977 Sino-American Exchange of Geographers: Looking Back and Looking Ahead.”

2007, March. “China’s Transformations: The Stories Beyond the Headlines” Roundtable discussion with Lionel Jensen and Timothy Weston, sponsored by University of Colorado at Boulder Center for Asian Studies.

2006, February. “Where in the world are China’s intellectuals?  Intellectual work in contemporary China,” Panel Discussion with Timothy Cheek and Peter Gries, sponsored by University of Colorado at Boulder Center for Asian Studies.

2005, September. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Discussion Panel on Ethnotourism.  Presented “Village Theme Parks.”

2005, June. North American Taiwan Studies Association 11th Annual Conference: “Difference, Democracy, Justice: Toward an Inclusive Taiwanese Society,” University of Colorado at Boulder.  Invited discussant.

2004, May. University of California, Irvine, Center for Asian Studies one-day workshop: Narratives of China’s Economic Reforms.  Presented “The story of Secretary Mei: hero, savior, liar, scoundrel.”
2003, December. UTS Institute for International Studies Annual Workshop: Art and Social Change, Lake Macquarie, NSW.  Invited discussant.
2003, May.  UTS-UNSW Centre for Research on Provincial China, China Quarterly, and Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg Workshop on China’s campaign to open up the west, Hamburg, Germany.  Presented: “Building a southern dynamo: Guizhou and state power.”

Panels or symposia organized
2006, April. Faith on Display: Tourism, Pilgrimage and the State in Contemporary China.  Panel organized for the Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco, CA.

2005, August. Tunpu Culture. A workshop co-sponsored by Anshun City Government, Xixiu District Government, Pingba County Government, Anshun Teacher’s College, Institute of Social Development at Guizhou Nationalities Institute, Guizhou Nanfeng Tourism Development Company, Xixiu Culture and Arts Association, Xixiu Tourism Development Association, Xixiu Culture and Recreation Marketing Association; Anshun, Guizhou, China.

2004, June.  Place imaginaries, mobilities, and the limits of representation.  A workshop sponsored by the UNSW-UTS Centre for Research on Provincial China, Hunter Valley, NSW.