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Journeys of Expressions VI: 

Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism

 

4-6 October 2007, York, United Kingdom

 

 

The enforced, encouraged or voluntary movement, migration and dispersion
of people is reflected in the family backgrounds, life histories and
cultural practices of communities in many countries, regions and cities
worldwide. Mobilities associated with the processes of globalisation are
demonstrably, if unevenly, contributing to an acceleration of migration
for more or less permanent, official and legal settlement of people
beyond their 'homelands'. Tourism has also grown substantially and
unevenly in recent years, with tourists increasingly encouraged to
attend and participate in 'exotic' and 'characteristically authentic'
displays of community life in destinations visited. Such tourism
typically features the packaging, promotion and consumption of diaspora
community neighbourhoods, food and shopping and importantly festivals
and cultural events. The relationships between diaspora communities,
festivity, cultural events and tourism are therefore of considerable
interest to academic researchers, as well as for arts, social, cultural
and tourism policy makers and practitioners.

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

In the tradition of the Journeys of Expressions conference series, we
wish to encourage an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes
and welcome paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary
backgrounds including: tourism studies, festival studies, sociology,
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, politics, etc. 

 

Key themes of interest to the conference include:

 

*          Defining and conceptualising diasporas in connection with
festivals and cultural events;

*          Histories of diaspora communities' mobilities and the
transformation and adaptation of festivity and cultural events to new
community circumstances and settings;

*          Relationships between diaspora communities and the 'homeland'
and expressions of collective memory through festivals and cultural
events;

*          The distribution and circulation of globalised diaspora
festival forms - e.g. carnival, mela, Irish, Chinese, Jewish - religious
and secular, established, emerging and contested;

*          The role of diaspora festivals and cultural events in
policies and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction
and anti-racism;

*          Festivals, cultural events and the identities of diaspora
community members - inter-generational issues;

*          Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural
city;

*          Settings and spaces for diaspora festivals and cultural
events;

*          Issues surrounding new and recently introduced diaspora
community festivals and cultural events;

*          Performing diaspora community arts through festivals;

*          Diaspora tourism markets.

 

If you wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract
with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic
file to Dr. Philip Long ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible
but no later than 8th June 2007 

 

For further details on the conference and the Centre for Tourism and
Cultural Change, please visit 

www.tourism-culture.com or contact us at: 

CTCC

Leeds Metropolitan University

Faculty of Arts & Society

The Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds LS1 3ED/ United Kingdom. 

Phone +44 (0) 113- 2838545

Fax +44 (0) 113- 2838544.

 

 

 



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