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Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and
Commonwealth 2007
'Thinking Through Tourism'
London Metropolitan University
10th – 13th April 2007
The topic chosen for the 2007 conference, 'Thinking Through Tourism', will
provide an opportunity to review the place of anthropology in the
interdisciplinary study of tourism, and the impact of tourism on the
methodology, theoretical development and practice of anthropology as a
discipline. Panels and papers are invited which address the following themes:
Cultural ownership
- encompassing the political mobilisation of culture within tourism; the
study of 'cultural landscapes' and museums, and the representation of
cultural objects, in terms, not only of the cultural ownership of the
objects themselves (an issue of increasing concern in an age of discussions
about the legitimacy of possession and restitution), but of the narratives
that the objects, and the explanatory texts used to explain them, tell the
visitor.
Tourism, politics and development
- questions of power and development, and their accompanying discourses, as
they emerge in interactions between global markets, state and non-state
institutions, through social movements and grass-roots opposition to
tourism, and in anthropological perspectives on the relationship between
tourism, political violence and terrorism, post-conflict reconciliation and
development.
Enchantment
- the imaginative and symbolic structures of tourism; processes of cognitive
and emotional transformation, as evidenced, for example, in the 'totemic'
quality of tourist attractions and sites; exploration of the competing
systems of aesthetic and commercial value at tourism's heart, which also
bear on questions of the nature and formation of pleasure.
Tourism as ethnographic field: applications of ethnographic method to
tourism processes, and reflections on tourism as an object of anthropology;
the kinship between anthropologists and tourists, ethnography and travel
writing.
Mobilities
- tourism as a particular category of mobility, and as a field within which
the meanings and practices associated with a wide range of mobilities are
subject to transformation, redefinition, and renegotiation.
For more on the conference themes, and online submission of panel and paper
proposals, please visit the conference website: www.theasa.org/asa07
**Deadline for panel proposals Please submit your 250 word abstracts on-line
by 8th November 2006
Call for papers from mid-November
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