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**PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT**
6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism
GAZING, GLANCING, GLIMPSING?: TOURISTS AND TOURISM IN A VISUAL WORLD
13th-15th June 2007
University of Brighton, Eastbourne Campus
Special Guest Speakers: Professor Dean MacCannell, University of California
Davis and Dr. Sarah Pink, Loughborough University
Visually-oriented research has long been a core (but somewhat under-rated)
strength of tourism which is an essentially experiential, visual project. In
framing the local and global into sets of performance, questions, and
memories, tourism’s visuality has huge potential in helping us reveal what
tourism means in modern society: as researchers we are not just interested
in images as objects, but in who makes them, why, and the impacts on
society.
Visual imagery and representation in the form of photographs, eyewitness
material, moving images, destination and product brochures, historic film
archives, religious icons, maps, storyboards, postcards can all be treated
as evidence. Images are not merely reflections of place and space, but
complex metaphors, allegories and illusions embedded in the social contexts
in which they were produced.
The conference presents a major opportunity to discuss the challenges of
using images to analyse and understand tourism and tourists.
Themes will include:
* Visual research methodologies as the basis for enquiries into past and
present
* Representation as narrative and counter-narrative
* Image, truth and illusion in tourism promotion
* Gendered representation in leisure and tourism
* Colonial, postcolonial, and subaltern studies related to tourism
* Historic particularity and touristic imagery
* Orientalism and the work of Edward Said as it applies to tourism and
leisure
* Photography as tourist performance
* The dialectic between data and methods and the unpredictable reaction
between them
* Implications of ubiquitous digital image making and the emerging
methodological implications
As researchers, teachers and citizens, we can use visual data to reposition
our own actions and investigations into people on the move‚ so as to push
the intellectual boundaries enforced by the banal ideas that infect many of
tourism’s research questions. Interrogating tourism and using the
granularity of its theoretical base via the visual enables much richer and
deeper understanding of the world’s largest industry in ways that text-based
information (the tyranny of the word?) fails to do.
For more information, contact: [log in to unmask] or visit:
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/sympo2007/
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