Tim Oakes
Department
of
Campus Box 260
Boulder, CO 80309
303-492-5887 (office) 303-492-7501 (fax)
E-mail: toakes@colorado.edu
EDUCATION
1995. PhD,
Geography, University of Washington.
1991. MA, Geography,
1987. BA, East Asian Studies,
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
Current. Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at
Boulder.
2011. Visiting Professor,
Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands.
2010-2011. Visiting Professor,
Institute of Ethnology and Sociology, Guizhou Nationalities University,
Guiyang, China.
2003-2008. Visiting Professor,
Department of Sociology,
2003-2004. Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for International
Studies,
1996-2004. Research Fellow, Center for Research on Provincial
1996-2011. Assistant Professor,
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at
Boulder.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (past 5 years)
Oakes, T. In press
2012. Review of Small
Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China by John
Donaldson. In The China Quarterly.
Klingberg, T. and T. Oakes. In Press 2012. Producing exemplary
consumers: tourism and leisure culture in China's nation-building project. In L. Jensen and T. Weston (eds.) China In and Beyond the Headlines
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield).
Oakes, T. In Press 2012. Making an empty show of strength: media and the
politics of discernment in China’s place branding projects. In W. Sun and J.
Chio (eds.) Localizing Chinese Media (London & New York: Routledge).
Oakes, T. 2011. Review of Mobility and Cultural
Authority in Contemporary China by Pál Nyíri. In The
China Journal 66 (July), 194-196.
Minca,
C. and T. Oakes. 2011. Real Tourism: Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture (
Minca, C. and T. Oakes. 2011. Real tourism. In C. Minca and T. Oakes (eds.) Real Tourism: Practice, Care, and Politics
in Contemporary Travel Culture (London and New York: Routledge), 1-11.
Oakes, T. 2011. Touring modernities: disordered tourism in
China. In C. Minca and T. Oakes (eds.) Real
Tourism: Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture (London and New York: Routledge), 103-122.
Oakes, T. 2011. Laser tag and other rural diversions:
the village as China's urban playground. Harvard
Asia Quarterly 13:3 (September), 25-30.
Cartier, C. and T. Oakes. 2010. Vast land of borders. China Heritage Quarterly 24 (December), http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/tien-hsia.php?searchterm=024_cartier.inc&issue=024
Wu, X. and T. Oakes. 2010. 再谈屯堡重塑：与宋茨林先生商酌. [Reconsidering the
reinvention of tunpu: a dialogue with Mr. Song Cilin]. 安顺学院学报[Journal of Anshun
Teachers College] 12(1), 1-4, 36.
Oakes, T. and D. Sutton. 2010. Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism and the State in
Oakes, T. and D. Sutton. 2010. Faiths on display – an introduction. In T. Oakes and D. Sutton (eds.), Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism and the
State in
Oakes, T. 2010. The alchemy of the ancestors: rituals of genealogy in the service of the
nation in rural
Oakes, T. 2010. 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. 100(3), 703-705.
Oakes, T. 2009. Resourcing culture:
Is a prosaic ‘third space’ possible in rural
Oakes, T. 2009. 屯堡村庄中国家建构的谱系仪式 [Rituals of
Genealogy in the Service of the Nation Among Tunpu Villages]. 西南民族大学学报 [Journal of
Southwest Nationalities University] 30(9): 16-23.
Oakes, T. and X. Wu. 2009. 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]. 安顺学院学报[Journal of Anshun
Teachers College] 11(2), 36-38.
Oakes, T. 2009. “Asia,” in The Encyclopedia of Human Geography,
eds. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (
Oakes, T. 2009. “Theme Parks,” in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational
History, eds. A. Ariye and P.Y. Saunier (
Oakes, T. 2009. Faking Heaven: it’s all done with mirrors –
Patty Chang’s Shangri-la and the
Utopian Will to Order in
Oakes, T. 2009. Review of Imagining Globalisation in
Oakes, T. 2009. Review of Cities
in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational
Oakes, T. 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.
Oakes, T. 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
Oakes, T. and P. Price. 2008 The Cultural Geography Reader (
Oakes, T. 2008. Faking Heaven: The Utopian Will to Order in
Oakes, T. 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
Oakes, T. and X. Wu. 2007 屯堡重塑：贵州的文化旅游与社会变迁 [Reinventing Tunpu: Cultural Tourism and
Social Change in
Oakes, T. and X. Wu. 2007.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
Oakes, T. 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
Oakes, T. 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 (
Oakes, T. 2007. Review of Displacing
Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in
Oakes, T. 2007. “Colonialism as a project of representation:
a review of
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
(Past 5 Years)
2011, December, University of
Edinburgh, School of Geosciences Fall Seminar Series: “Faiths on display:
tourism and ritual in rural China.”
2011, December, Laval Université, Quebec, Department of Geography Fall Seminar Series:
“Heritage as improvement: cultural display and contested governance in rural
China.”
2011, September, Geography Lecture, Wageningen University, Netherlands: “Laser tag and
other rural diversions: the village as urban China’s playground.”
2011, May, Guizhou Nationalities University, College of Ethnology and Sociology:
“The development of contemporary culture industries in the United States”
2011, March, Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Chinese
Religions Seminar: “Faiths on display: tourism and ritual in rural China.”
2010, November, Fudan University, Department of Tourism Studies: “Putting faiths on
display: tourism and religion in China.”
2010, November, UTS China Research Center Workshop on
Provincial China: The New Chinese Empire, Macau Institute of Tourism, Macau:
Presented “‘Nothing is pure’: rethinking China’s frontiers as translocal
spaces.”
2010, October. University of Colorado Center for Asia
Studies Fall Lecture Series: Discussant for “China’s Mega-event Mania: Making Sense of the 2008 Beijing Games and the
2010 Shanghai Expo.”
2010, October, Guizhou Nationalities University, College of Media and Communication:
“Cultural development and cultural governance: theoretical implications.”
2010, October, Guizhou Nationalities University, College of Tourism: “Putting faiths on
display: tourism and religion in China”
2010, October. University of Colorado Center for Humanities and Arts Fall Lecture
Series: “‘Nothing is pure’: rethinking China from the edges.”
2010, June. ACLS/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Putting China on Display: From 19th-Century
Museums to 21st-Century Expos,” Smithsonian Institution,
2010, April. University of
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.”
2009, October. UTS
2009, March. Annual Meetings of
the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV. Presented “The pure and
the sullied: rethinking
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.”
2009, January.
2009, January.
2008,
October. Nankai University Zhou Enlai School of Government,
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.
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.
2008,
February.
2007,
November.
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”,
2007, April. Annual Meetings of
the Association of American Geographers,
2007, April. Annual Meetings of
the Association of American Geographers,
2007, March. “
2007,
February.
2007,
February. University of
2007,
January.