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Tourism and Seductions of Difference | Lisbon, Portugal | 9-12 September
2010
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Tourism and Seductions of Difference | Lisbon, Portugal | 9-12 September
2010
CRIA together with the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network and the
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change invite you to download a
programme for TOURISM AND SEDUCTIONS OF DIFFERENCE which will take place
in Lisbon, Portugal from 9 to 12 September 2010 and to join the event.
As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, this Conference
will tackle one of the central ontological and phenomenological premises
of tourism, the fascination with the idea of 'Others'. Anthropologists
have studied how the idea of differences between people, temporalities
and places enable social actors to constitute and maintain identity and
selfhood within a wider cosmological scheme of life. One of the most
basic premises of tourism consists in temporarily overcoming difference,
be it through the journey to a 'different' place, the eating of
'different' food, the contact with 'different' people. Whatever their
ontological underpinning, Self and Other are almost ceremonially brought
into contact: Self is deliberately immersed in the realm of a presumed
Other, while, in the post-touristic context 'back home', the visited
Other often seems to perpetuate a presence, a sympathetic quality. While
rhetorically and socially separated, 'Self' and 'Other' hence appear
here in fact mutually constitutive, exerting seductive powers upon each
other, 'bewitching' and 'colonising' each other, invoking each other and
making each other a fetish of their own existence. But who, or what,
exactly, are tourists seduced by? How are tourist attractions assembled
to entice tourists? How is seduction in tourism being politically
framed? What are the threats and consequences of seducing tourists? What
happens when tourists seduce? How can seduction work as a means for
resistance? What happens when seduction is rejected?
The conference, bringing together more than 200 delegates from 30
countries, includes about 150 papers adressing such questions and about
a dozen film screenings. The philosophy of this event is to be open and
accessible, which is why the registration fees were fixed at a strict
cover-cost basis and include all lunches, coffee breaks and a dinner.
For more information and options about submitting a late abstract,
please go to www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk
<http://www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk/> or send us an email to
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