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Call for papers RGS-IBG 2005: Performing Tourism
Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group
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Performing Tourism
Recent shifts in the focus of tourism research towards performance
and being have exposed the tourist experience as increasingly complex,
fluid and multidimensional in nature. Production and consumption in
the tourist experience have become positioned as hybrid processes
rather than dichotomous interactions between hosts and guests, people
and places. Notions of imagination and embodied experience bring forth
the creative role of the individual in re-writing and re-presenting
experiences and places by doing or performing tourism. The tourist as
subject is re-conceptualised as embodied, and the act of tourism
becomes a creative cultural practice, suggestive of individuals
entering a process of becoming a tourist through interaction with,
and experience of, place via innumerable touristic practices as they
make sense of and engage with place. These practices, whether taking
photographs, hill-walking, mountain biking, beach-combing, writing
postcards, reading pamphlets, visiting museums or monuments, to name
but a few, facilitate the process through which tourists experience,
and are able to situate themselves in, place. This session invites
papers that tackle this emerging avenue of exploration and discuss
the re-engagement of the individual within the global whilst allowing
for sensitivity to the active co-constitutive roles of co-present
actants of various natures in individual creative performances.
Abstracts (no longer than 200 words) should be submitted by email no
later than 21st January 2005, to:
Caroline Scarles
School of Geographical Sciences,
University of Bristol.
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Gunnpora Olafsdottir
School of Geographical Sciences,
University of Bristol.
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Ms Caroline E Scarles
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1SS
Tel: +00 44 117 928 9954
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