Professor Dorina-Maria Buda explains the power of tourism and emotions to build bridges of peace, to build connections rather than disconnections in these times and places of turmoil and conflicts. Dr Dorina Maria Buda is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen in the
Netherlands, and a Professor of Tourism at Leeds Beckett University in England. Dorina is the author of Affective Tourism: Dark Routes in Conflict, a research monograph in which she offers a new way of theorising tourism encounters bringing together and critically examining three areas of scholarship: tourism; emotions and affects; conflict and peace studies. Her research interests revolve around interconnections between tourism, danger and sociopolitical conflicts; emotions, affects, feelings and senses; psychoanalysis; dark tourism, danger-zone tourism. Dorina completed her doctoral research in the Geography and Tourism Programmes at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand with a thesis on Danger-zone tourism: Emotional performances in Jordan and Palestine. Dorina grew up in post/communist Romania, lived, worked and studied in about 8 countries. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx