Pau Obrador

Pau Obrador, who has a degree in Sociology from the University of Barcelona and a PhD in Human Geography from Durham University, is currently a lecturer in Tourism at Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, and is also a member of the Menorcan Research Institute. His area of research is how tourism relates with culture, space, the body, and everyday life, and he has made major theoretical contributions that raise questions about the place of tourism in contemporary life, in particular with texts on domesticity, habitability, and corporeality. He has published works on a wide range of subjects including family tourism, tactile sensations of the beach, nudity, mass tourism, caravans, invented traditions, tourist art, and critical hospitality. He is co-editor of the book Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities (Routledge, 2009) and is currently working on a study funded by the British Academy Leverhulme Small Research Grant on digital mediation of home spaces.