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.
1996-2004. Research Fellow, Center for Research on Provincial China, University of New South Wales.
1996. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Iowa.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (past 5 years)
Forthcoming. [with Donald Sutton]. Faiths on Display: Tourism and Religion in China (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).

In Press. Resourcing culture: Is a prosaic ‘third space’ possible in rural China? Environment and Planning D; Society and Space.

In Press. Review of Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape: Readings and Commentaries, edited by William Deneven and Kent Mathewson. In Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

2009. “祖先的炼金术” – 屯堡村庄中搬演国家的溯源仪式 [Alchemy of the ancestors: ritual performance of national ancestry in tunpu villages]. 西南民族大学学报 [Journal of Southwest Nationalities University] (April).

2009. [with Wu Xiaoping]. 屯堡文化的价值 – 与宋茨林先生商酌[The value of tunpu culture. A response to Song Cilin]. 安顺师转学报[Journal of Anshun Teachers College] 1 (January).

2009. “Asia,” in The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (Oxford: Elsevier).

2009. “Theme Parks,” in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, eds. A. Ariye and P.Y. Saunier (London: Palgrave).

2009. Faking Heaven: it’s all done with mirrors – Patty Chang’s Shangri-la and the Utopian Will to Order in China. In China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, eds. K. Merkel-Hess, K. Pomeranz, and J. Wasserstrom (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield).

2009. Review of Imagining Globalisation in China: Debates on Ideology, Politics, and Culture, by Nick Knight. In Pacific Affairs 82(3).

2009. Review of Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China, edited by Sherman Cochrn and David Strand. In The China Journal 61, 155-157.

2009. Review of Going Abroad: Travel, Tourism and Migration. Cross Cultural Perspectives on Mobility, edited by Christine Geoffrey and Richard Sibley. In Social and Cultural Geography 10(2), 226-228.

2008. 先祖の錬金術：中国農村における国民奉仕のための族譜の儀式. 空間・社会・地理思想 [Space, Society, and Geographic Thought] 12号, 87-104. http://www.lit.osaka-cu.ac.jp/geo/pdf/space12/12_10yamazaki.pdf

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

2008. Faking Heaven: The Utopian Will to Order in China. In The China Beat (http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2008/09/faking-heaven-utopian-will-to-order-in.html)

2008. “Tourism as foreign policy: a review of China’s Outbound Tourism, by Wolfgang Arlt.” In H-Net Reviews http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=15674

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).

2007.[with Wu Xiaoping] 前言 [Introduction]. In T. Oakes and X. Wu (eds.), 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 Minzu Chubanshe), pp. 1-15.

2007. 谁的屯堡文化？屯堡文化的旅游经济学 [Who owns Tunpu culture? The cultural economy of tunpu tourism]. In T. Oakes and X. Wu (eds.), 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 Minzu Chubanshe), pp. 23-46.

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.

2007. Review of Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China, by Beth Notar. In Pacific Affairs 80(2), 366-367.

2007. “Colonialism as a project of representation: a review of 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/showrev.php?id=13164

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).

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), pp. 14-35. 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.

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. Translated as主题公园式的村庄：中国旅游业的模仿及真实性 [Village theme parks: authenticity and models in China’s tourism industry] and reprinted in X. Wu (ed.) 民族旅游的社会学研究 [Social Research on Ethnic Tourism] (Guiyang: Guizhou Minzu Chubanshe, 2006), 1-30.

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.

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

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).

WORK IN PROGRESS

再谈屯堡重塑：与宋茨林先生商酌 (manuscript in preparation with Wu Xiaoping).

Making an empty show of strength: the cultural economy of place branding on China’s frontiers (manuscript in preparation for Provincial China workshop, Hefei, October 2009).

Real Tourism: Representation, Practice, and the Material in Contemporary Travel Culture [with Claudio Minca], in preparation for Routledge, expected publication 2011

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

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

RECENT PRESENTATIONS (Past 5 Years)
2009, October. Rikkyo Amusement Research Centre (RARC), Rikkyo University, Tokyo & Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Seminar on “Retracing Modern Tourism – Strang Days: Tourism with no Tourist.” Presented “Touring modernities and the question(s) of order.” Tokyo, Japan.

2009, October. UTS China Research Center Workshop on Provincial China: Local and Provincial Media, Anhui University, Hefei. Presented “Making an empty show of strength: the cultural economy of place branding on China’s frontiers”

2009, March. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV. Presented “The pure and the sullied: rethinking China’s frontiers as translocal spaces – Implications for a critical area studies and China geography.”

2009, March. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV. Panel on “Capitalism, Chinese Style?”

2009, March. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV. Panel on “In the Heart of the Beast: Teaching World Regional Geography.”

2009, January, National University of Laos, Rikkyo Amusement Research Center (RARC), and Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London “Retracing Modern Tourism” Seminar Series: “Tours and Tourists: Exploring Asian Modern Travel Cultures.” Presented “Touring Modernities: Comparing Asian and Western Tourism.” Vientiane, Laos.

2009, January. Osaka City University, Department of Geography Colloquium Series: “Alchemy of the Ancestors: Rituals of Genealogy in the Service of the Nation in Rural China”

2009, January. Osaka City University, Department of Geography: “Tourism, Modernity, and Governmentality in China,” a three-day seminar taught for graduate students, Osaka, Japan.

2008, October. Nankai University Zhou Enlai School of Government, Tianjin: “Cultural tourism and social change in China.”

2008, October. UTS China Research Center and Scottish Centre for Chinese Social Science Research at the University of Glasgow, and Nankai University Zhou Enlai School of Government, Workshop on Provincial China: Social Issues in the context of Central-Local Relations, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Invited discussant.

2008, September. Western Conference for the Association of Asian Studies, Boulder, CO. Panel on “Chinese and Indian Developmental Experience.”

2008, September. Western Conference for the Association of Asian Studies, Boulder, CO. Panel on “Contemporary China.”

2008, September. Western Conference for the Association of Asian Studies, Boulder, CO. Panel on “The Politics of Protest in Tibet and Beyond.”

2008, August. University of Colorado at Boulder Symposia on Meeting the Challenges: Featured Faculty Discussions. Organized and moderated panel on “Social Dimensions of Climate Change.”

2008, June. Media, Spiritualities and Social Change Conference, Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Presented “The Alchemy of the Ancestors” for the panel “Media, myth, and mobility: taking stock of the spiritual in global tourism and exhibition.”

2008, March. University of Toronto Munk Centre for International Studies & University of Toronto Asian Institute: “The alchemy of the ancestors: genealogy and the commerce of ritual in rural China.”

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, 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.”

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.

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, 9^th Annual Honors Conference: “East Asia: A Changing Balance of Power.” Presented “Rural Development in China.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

2005, May. Overseas Young Chinese Forum 7^th 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”

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