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RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2010, 1st-3rd September, London UK. Session
sponsored by the Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group.
Call for Papers: Lifestyle Mobilities and Corporealities: Intersections and Issues
Convenors: Scott Cohen (Bournemouth University) and Tara Duncan
(University of Otago)
Departing from other recent calls for papers (such as Hannam, Mosedale and
Paris for the AAG 2010) that consider (im)mobilities across contexts of people,
objects, technology and information, this session will focus on the lifestyle
mobilities and moorings of corporealities. Moving as lifestyle has been fomented
by transnational ties, technologies of transport and information and changing
socio-cultural outlooks on mobilities. Consequently, the (re)formation of
lifestyles characterised by mobilities has led to fresh corporeal organisations
that justify empirical investigation. We are seeking papers that highlight such
socio-cultural phenomena through a lens of lifestyle mobilities and ways in
which these praxes intersect with:
• definitional ambiguities of lifestyle
• negotiations of expressivity and constraint
• embodiment and sensuality
• (con)fusions of personal identities
• cultural hybridities
• cosmopolitanism – openness, contradictions and the everyday
• performances of binaries such as home/away and work/leisure
• corporeal mobilities as a search for moorings
• fluidities of tourism and the mundane
• the romanticisation and privileging of corporeal mobilities
• questioning mobilities as a paradigmatic approach to lifestyle
Please submit abstracts (of no more than 200 words) to both Scott Cohen
([log in to unmask]) and Tara Duncan ([log in to unmask]) by
Friday February 12th, 2010.
Many thanks and kind regards
Tara Duncan
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