--CALL FOR PAPERS--
Australian-Canadian Studies (journal of the Association for Canadian
Studies in Australia and New Zealand,
http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/comm_media/acs/acsindex.html , one of the most
well respected interdisciplinary journals in the social sciences and
humanities with respect to Canadian Studies)
This is a special issue which seeks to place New Zealand in a wider
comparative context.
'The Idea of Place'
edited by
Michael Hall, Jenny Lawn & Mark Williams
Since the early colonial period, New Zealand has been represented by way of
images of a natural world both sublime and useful. Its usefulness - its
richness of timber and its ready adaptability to pastoralism - was
emphasised in order to attract settlers throughout the nineteenth century.
Its sublimity was emphasised from the late colonial period in order to
attract tourists and adventurers. These imageries, consciously fabricated
to advance the settler economy, progressively became identified by the
settlers as the basis of a local and special identity. A cultivated idea of
place thus allowed the formulation of an equally cultivated idea of
belonging. In this issue of ACS we look at the history and constructions of
that imagery and consider the questions raised by the invention of a sense
of place: what is the status of indigenous people within that imagery; how
has that imagery served identity politics; how might spiritual perspectives
transform or enhance human involvement with the land; what are the
implications of nostalgia for place in a post-industrial economy; how might
the success of the Greens in last year's election signal changing attitudes
or state policy toward biotechnology and agribusiness in New Zealand; how
is place transformed into a product to be promoted and sold; do regional
identifications emerge from the representation of community and landscape?
Comparative, interdisciplinary and Maori perspectives are particularly
welcome.
For information contact:
Michael Hall: Centre for Tourism, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin,
tel: 03 479 5477 (W), 03 479 8520 (Secretary), Fax: 03 479 9034, email:
[log in to unmask];
Jenny Lawn: English Dept, Massey University, Albany Campus, P.B. 102 904,
North Shore,
Auckland, tel: 09-443-9799 ext. 9670 email: [log in to unmask];
Mark Williams: English Dept., Canterbury University, PO Box 4800, Christchurch,
tel: 03 3642313, fax: 03 3642065 email: [log in to unmask]
Papers between 5000 and 6000 words should be sent to any of the above by
1st September 2000. Style guides will be forwarded on request.
Centre for Tourism, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel: +64 3 479 5477 (W), +64 3 479 8520 (Secretary), Fax: +64 3 479 9034
Email: [log in to unmask] web site:
http://divcom.otago.ac.nz/tourism/
Editor, Current Issues in Tourism:
http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/tourism/current-issues/homepage.htm
Associate Editor for Asia and the Pacific, Tourism Geographies: An
International Journal of Tourism Place, Space and Environment:
http://www.for.nau.edu/geography/tg/
Chairperson, IGU Sustainable Tourism Study Group:
http://www.for.nau.edu/geography/igust/
- Korea IGC2000 meeting Information:
http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/korea2000.html
Visiting Professor, School of Leisure and Food Management, Sheffield Hallam
University, UK: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/lfm/
Immediate Past President, ACSANZ http://www.powerup.com.au/~acsanz/
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