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Conference announcement and CFP

Tourism and Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories
14-18 July 2005, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
www.tourism-culture.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
This is the first call for papers for our 2005
Critical Tourism Research Conference: Tourism and
Performance: Scripts, Stages and Stories. This is part
of an ongoing conference series focusing on tourism
and tourism related practices, with the aim to test
and, where useful, to overcome traditional conceptual
and disciplinary boundaries. Previous events of this
series include Tourism and Photography: Still Visions
- Changing Lives in Sheffield, in 2003, and Tourism
and Literature: Travel, Imagination and Myth in
Harrogate, in 2004.

Performance has been theorised as a way by which human
beings act in society and organise their being in the
world. In the context of tourism, there is much debate
regarding the idea of tourists as performers, 'acting
out' spaces, and enacting 'scripts', through which
they organise and add meaning to their experiences and
journeys. Tourism in this sense can be seen to be
'staged'. But such perspectives raise a number of
questions regarding the reflexivity, the hermeneutics,
the sensual and aesthetic modalities, the social
interactions and the political economy of tourist
performance: How is individual tourist performance
linked to socially prescribed or learnt models
regarding tourism behaviour and spaces? How are spaces
and material culture 'enacted' by and for tourists?
What are the production and consumption modalities of
in situ and in visu stages for tourism performance?
How is tourism performance linked to modes of
touristic social interaction during the journey? What
roles do stories play in generating performativity and
in liberating tourists from the acts of travel and
tourism?

The aim of this conference is to explore such
questions by drawing on the methodological and
conceptual knowledge of different disciplinary
perspectives including those of: anthropology,
sociology, history, folkloric studies, literature and
critical theory, linguistics, human/cultural
geography, psychology, theatre studies and other
relevant approaches.  Key themes of interest to the
conference include:

- Eden, Sodom & Gomorrah, the Golden Fleece: narrative
archetypes underlying tourism?
- Hermeneutics and reflexivity: Tourism scripts,
stages and stories as parables of the social world?
- Losing the plot: Tourism lost in translation
- Odour, sound, vision, taste - making sense of the
senses: cognitive categories and processes in tourism
- Distance and familiarity: Tourist performance and
social interaction
- Global forms and exchange: Building facades,
eroticising space, making places visible for tourism
- Who is cooking who? Geographies and economies of
touristic performance, consumption and exchange
- Political and symbolic manipulation of tourism
scripts, stages and stories
- Objects as props - objects as texts

Please send a 300 word long abstract of your suggested
communication with full address details as an
electronic file to Dr. David Picard (send to
[log in to unmask] ) as soon as possible but by 15th
April 2005 at the latest.

For further details on the conference and the Centre
for Tourism & Cultural Change, please visit
www.tourism-culture.com or contact us at: CTCC,
Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Owen
Building, Sheffield, S1 1WB, United Kingdom. Phone:
+44 (0) 114 225 3973. Fax: +44 (0) 114 225 3343.


Dr David Picard
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus / Owen Building
Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
United Kingdom
Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973
Fax +44 (0) 114 225 4434
Email [log in to unmask]
Website www.tourism-culture.com



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