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TOURISM AND PERFORMANCE:
SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES
2005 Tourism and Cultural Change Research Conference
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 14-18 July 2005
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
www.tourism-culture.com
TOURISM AND PERFORMANCE: SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES is an international research conference organised by the Centre for Tourism
and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. The extended deadline for this CFP is 1 May 2005; late abstracts
may be accepted. Due to lower venue costs, we have been able to reconsider the registration fees, and offer a student rate.
CONTEXT AND AIMS
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:
tourism studies, anthropology, sociology, history, cultural studies, folkloric studies, literature, critical theory, linguistics,
human/cultural geography, psychology, theatre studies and other relevant approaches.
THEMES
Key themes of interest to the conference include:
- Who is cooking who? Tourism consumption, digestion, and excretion
- Hermeneutics, reflexivity and agency: Tourism as a parable of the social world
- Eden, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Solitary Wanderer, the Golden Fleece: Archaeologies of tourist imaginary and performance
- Odour, sound, vision, taste - making sense of the senses: cognitive categories and perceptive processes in tourism experience
- Objects as props - objects as texts
- Staging, eroticising, and making visible: Translations, adaptations, and variations of the 'cultural'
- Reconsidering the economic in tourism: Transnational spaces of encounter, production and exchange
- Political and symbolic manipulation of tourism scripts
- 'Losing the plot': Tourism lost in translation
PLENARY SESSIONS
Prof Edward Bruner from the University of Illinois, USA will give a plenary speech on 'Experience, Narrative and Memory in
Tourism'.
LIST OF PAPER PRESENTERS
A regularly updated list of full text abstracts can be downloaded at our website: www.tourism-culture.com
<http://www.tourism-culture.com/> .
Kristin Becker (Dept of Theatre Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany); Gary Best (School of Sport, Tourism and
Hospitality Management, La Trobe University, Australia); Maria Beatrice Bittarello (Dept. of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts,
University of Stirling, UK); David Boles (NJIT/Rutgers-Newark, UMDNJ, USA); Michael S. Bowman (Dept. of Communication Studies,
Louisiana State University, USA); Edward M. Bruner (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA); Shirley J.
Chappel & Lorraine Brown (School of Management, University of South Australia, Australia); Lisa Cooke (Dept. Social Anthropology,
York University, Toronto, Canada); William G. Feighey (Beltourism International, China); Sybille Frank (Institute of Sociology,
Darmstadt Technical University, Germany); Ulrike Friedl (University of Innsbruck, Austria); Modesto García Jiménez (Anthropology,
Catholic University of Murcia, Spain); Donna Glasson; Margaret Hart Robertson (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain);
Keith Hollinshead (Dept of Tourism Studies, Luton University, UK); Lucy Huxley (Dept of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK); Jennifer Iles (School of Social Sciences, Roehampton University, UK); Alick Kay (Management School, University of
South Australia, Australia); Alan Kirby (, Amersham College, UK); Sergei Kropotov (Art History and Cultural Studies, Urals State
University, Russia); Jane Lancaster (Pembroke Center for Research on Women and Gender, Brown University, USA); Patrick Laviolette
(Dept of Anthropology, University College London, UK); Sonja Lebos (Independent cultural practitioner, Croatia); Kenneth Little
(Dept. of Anthropology, York University, Canada); Maria Antonia Lopez-Burgos (Economics, University of Granada, Spain); Catherine
Mathers (Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, South Africa); Grant McCall (Centre for South Pacific
Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia); Maren Möhring (Historical Seminar, University of Köln, Germany); Maureen
Mulligan (FTI, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Sally A. Ness (Dept of Anthropology, University of California,
USA); Pal Nyiri & Joana Breidenbach (Dept of Anthropoligy, Macquarie University, Australia); Daniela Peluso (Dept of Anthropology,
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK); Alison Phipps (Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow, UK); Hanne Pico Larsen; Kathrin
Rountree (Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University, New Zealand); Jacqueline Tivers et al. (Arts, Communication and Culture,
Nottingham Trent University, UK); Raghuraman S. Trichur (Dept of Anthropology, California State University, USA); Hazel Tucker
(Dept of Tourism Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand); Lauren Wagner (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin,
USA); Chris Wilbert & Rikke Hansen (Dept. of Planning, Anglia Polytechnic University, UK); Michael Zinganel (Faculty of
Architecture, Graz University of Technology, Austria).
VENUE AND REGISTRATION
The conference will take place in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The registration fee for the conference is £190 if paid before 1 June
2005 and £240 if paid after this date. We also offer a student rate at £160. This includes the full conference documentation, an
ISBN referred proceedings CD-ROM, day-time conference catering, a conference dinner and a field study. To register to the
conference, please use the registration form included in the conference information pack which can be downloaded at our website
www.-tourism-culture.com.
ACCOMMODATION
The conference registration fee does not include accommodation. This can be booked directly with the venue (address to be
confirmed through our website). Delegates will benefit from excellent rates at the hotel / conference venue where 3* style bed and
breakfast accommodation is available. A single will be at £55, a double at £80 per night including breakfast buffet. As in
previous events, we expect that the majority of delegates will stay on the conference site and therefore urge early bookings.
These rates can only be guaranteed if booked by 2 June 2005. To book a room, please use the accommodation booking form included in
the conference information pack which can be downloaded at our website www.-tourism-culture.com <http://www.-tourism-culture.com/>
.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Late abstracts may be considered. People who wish to present a paper should send a 300 word abstract with full address details as
an electronic file to Prof. Mike Robinson and Dr. David Picard (send to [log in to unmask]) as soon as possible.
CONTACT
For any other or further enquiry regarding this conference or the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, please visit
www.tourism-culture.com or contact us at:
Prof. Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard
(email to [log in to unmask])
conference administrators:
Mr Francesco Gilardi and Ms Annie Yeromian
(email to [log in to unmask])
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street, Owen Building
Sheffield S1 1WB, United Kingdon
Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973
Fax: +44 (0) 114 225 3343
Web: www.tourism-culture.com
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