Conference Session Announcement - Call for papers
'The Things of Tourism'
At the Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference in Tampere, Finland
29th June - 2nd July 2002.
Call for abstracts of papers of 150 words by 15th February 2002 for the below session to both:
Chris Wilbert: [log in to unmask]
David Crouch: [log in to unmask]
The 'Things' of Tourism.
The study of cultures of tourism and its geographies have begun to flow from new interdisciplinary critiques.
This session acknowledges the intellectual power of some of those recent debates, especially in terms of
material cultures and a growing acknowledgement of tourism as populated by hybrids of the human and
non-human. As Franklin and Crang recently note, such approaches have
begun to show the ways 'things' often have important roles in the
unfolding of cultural events and practices of tourism, as well as how
such 'things' do not exist without being full of people.
The session works from the tourist as subjective individual, and from
notions of power and citizenship to explore the dynamics, negotiations
and tensions in tourism in contemporary and historic cultures, both
`western` and `non-western`. Although we suggest particular categories
for possible themes, crucially these are intended merely to provide
points in what may be discussions of networks of relations - human and
non-human:
The study of cultures of tourism and its geographies have begun to flow from new interdisciplinary critiques. This session acknowledges the intellectual power of some of those recent debates, especially in terms of material cultures and a growing acknowledgement of tourism as populated by hybrids of the human and non-human. Such approaches have begun to show the ways things often play critical roles in the unfolding of cultural events and practices of tourism, as well as how such things 'do not exist without being full of people'. The session works from the tourist as subjective individual, and from notions of power and citizenship to explore the dynamics, negotiations and tensions in tourism in contemporary and historic cultures, both `western` and `non-western`. Although we suggest particular categories for possible themes, crucially these are intended merely to provide points in what may be discussions of networks of relations - human and non-human:
· Material cultures of tourism - souvenirs, 'postcards', photos, etc.
· Non-human / human and other hybridities of tourism cultures.
· Tourism as performance.
· Material memories and 'Taking places home'.
· Tourism cultures and theories of things.
Five papers will be selected for the session. Further details of the conference are available
at: http://www.crossroads2002.com/
Registration fee for the conference is 260 Euros (approximately £158), plus accommodation.
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