Emily Höckert, Post-doc researcher
Emily Höckert (D. Soc.Sci, University of Lapland) is a Tourism researcher specialized in questions around ethics, hospitality and multispecies storytelling in tourism settings. Together with the ILA group, her research explores the multiple ways in which different kinds of hosts and guests – human and non-human – welcome and take care of each other. She approaches the questions of hospitality and ethics of care at the crossroads of hermeneutic phenomenology, postcolonial philosophy, and feminist new materialism. Emily is the author of Negotiating Hospitality (2018) and co-author of Researching with Proximity (2023) and Disruptive Tourism and Its Untidy Guests (2014), which all discuss relational ways of being, knowing, and becoming.
Emily worked earlier as a coordinator of the Sustainable Naturecultures and Multispecies Futures research community at the University of Lapland; a community that brings together scientists from across Social Science disciplines and Arts during a time of planetary change. Emily has also worked on the ARCTISEN project, which focused on enhancing culturally sensitive tourism across the Arctic.