Dr Fabian Frenzel
Lecturer in the Political Economy of Organisa
tion
Contact Details
- Tel: +44 (0) 116 252 5641
- Email: ff48@le.ac.uk
- Office: Room 329, Level 3, Ken Edwards Building
- Office Hours: TBC
Biography
I joined the School of Management in February 2012. Previously I was a lecturer at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England (UWE), where I taught on the tourism and enterprise UG programmes and on the MBA. I am a Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Leeds Metropolitan University. I have an MSc in Political Sciences from Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Research Interests
My research interests are the intersections of leisure mobility, organisation and identity. In my current research projects I study the ways in which social movements activists organise themselves in response to place and space with a particular interest in the organisational form of the protest camp.
I am currently writing a book on protest camps as an organisational form (with Zed books) in collaboration with Anna Feigenbaum (Richmond The American University London) and Patrick McCurdy (Ottawa).
Furthermore I consider the role of transnational mobilities, from activists to tourists, in the formation of a global social question with a focus on the way slums are becoming destinations of a range of better off travellers, in solidarity and volunteer travel and in slum-tours.
I won an early career grant from the University of the West of England (18,000 pounds) to study tourism in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and to initiate the foundation of a slum tourism research network. I co-organised the first conference in this field of research in December 2010 at UWE. This led to the publication of a special issue on slum tourism in the journal tourism geographies and a book I edited on the same topic.
I have previously worked in an ESRC research project on Alternative Media Organisation in the 'Global South' (RES-155-25-0029).
Earlier work includes the foundation in 2003 of a research think tank, the Institute of Nomadology (InNo) in Berlin.
PhD Supervision
I’d be interested to supervise PhDs that aim:
- To critically study leisure mobilities and tourism.
- To study political mobilities (i.e activist travel), volunteer tourism, slum tourism and poverty as a tourist attraction.
- To research protest camps, both in comtemporary and historical perspective.
- To reflect on the role of leisure in the formation of political identities.
- To interrogate the politics of compassion and the social question.
Recent Publications
Feigenbaum, A, Frenzel F and McCurdy P (2013) Protest Camps The Political and Organisational Form of Protest Camps. Zed Books.
Frenzel, F and Koens, K (2012) Slum Tourism: developments in a young field of interdisciplinary tourism research Tourism Geographies 14 (2) p forthcoming.
Frenzel F, Koens K, Steinbrinck, M (eds.) (2012) Power, Ethic and Politics in Global Slum-Tourism, Abington, Oxon, Routledge.
Frenzel F, Boehm S, Quinton P, Sullivan S, Spicer A, Young Z (2011) Comparing Alternative Media in North and South, Environment and Planning A 35(4) P. 1173-1189.
Frenzel, F. (2012) Regimes of Camp and Camping. The political mobility of activist encampments in Vogl, G. et al. (eds.) New Mobilities Regimes. The Analytical Power of the Social Science and the Arts, Farnham, Ashgate.
Frenzel, F. (2011) Entlegene Orte in der Mitte der Gesellschaft? Die britischen Klimacamps seit 2006 [in German] in Brunnengraeber, A. (ed.) Das internationale Klimaregime, Wiesbaden, VS Research Verlag (2011).
Full listing of publications
Journals
Frenzel, F and Koens, K (2012) Slum Tourism: developments in a young field of interdisciplinary tourism research Tourism Geographies 14 (2) p forthcoming.
Frenzel F, Boehm S, Quinton P, Sullivan S, Spicer A, Young Z (2011) Comparing Alternative Media in North and South, Environment and Planning A 35(4) P. 1173-1189.
Frenzel, F. (2010) Researching Political Tourists: A Case Study Approach in Methodology: Innovative approaches to research, Vol 1, Issue 1, 24-27.
Books
Feigenbaum, A, Frenzel F and McCurdy P (2013) Protest Camps The Political and Organisational Form of Protest Camps. Zed Books.
Frenzel F, Koens K, Steinbrinck, M (eds.) (2012) Poverty, Power and Ethics in Global Slum-Tourism, Abington, Oxon, Routledge.
Frenzel, F. (2010) Politics in Motion, PhD Thesis, Leeds Metropolitan University Library.
Book Chapters
Frenzel F (2012) Beyond ‘Othering’ The Political Roots Of Slum-Tourism in Frenzel et al (eds) Poverty, Power and Ethics in Global Slum-Tourism Oxon, Routledge, p. (forthcoming).
Frenzel, F. (2012) Regimes of Camp and Camping. The political mobility of activist encampments in Vogl, G. et al. (eds.) New Mobilities Regimes. The Analytical Power of the Social Science and the Arts, Farnham, Ashgate.
Frenzel, F. (2011) Entlegene Orte in der Mitte der Gesellschaft? Die britischen Klimacamps seit 2006 [in German] in Brunnengraeber, A. (ed.) Das internationale Klimaregime, Wiesbaden, VS Research Verlag (2011).
Frenzel, F. and Sullivan, S. (2009) Globalization from below? ICTs and Democratic Development in the Project ‘Indymedia Africa’. In Mudhai, Fred et al. eds. African Media and the Digital Public Sphere. New York and London, Palgrave Macmillian.
Un-reviewed publications
Frenzel, F. (2010) Book Review: Tourism and Mobilities Local-Global Connections, Leisure Studies Association Newsletter 69-72.
Frenzel, F. (2005) Book Review: Tourism Mobilities Places to Play, Places in Play. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 3 (2), pp.136-138.
