Diego Felipe Caicedo recently graduated from the International PhD Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies at the National Chung Hsing University, where he received the 2018 Taiwan MOE (Ministry of Education Scholarship). He also earned a Master of Arts in Cultural and Creative Industries from the Taipei National University of the Arts, where he was awarded with the 2015 Taiwan ICDF Scholarship (International Cooperation and Development Found). His research investigates how elements of dark tourism and ecotourism intersect, interact and manifest in multiple tourist geographies using an interdisciplinary theoretical approach that dwells in the environmental humanities, anthropology, tourism studies and cultural studies. Diego is currently conducting research in the Darien jungle (the border of Panama and Colombia), analyzing how migrants that are increasingly crossing this dangerous area to make their way to the United States, problematize human mobility on what he has conceptualized as dark-eco tourism.
Research Topic: Issues on Mobility: Travel and Migration in Historical and Contemporary Dark-Eco Tourism Landscapes
Host University: The University of Saint Joseph, USJ Macao
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