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Dear all,
The deadline to apply to IUAES has been extended to 3rd of August. If your
research interests touch on the following subjects, I would be very happy
if you would like to participate.
‘PE50 Emerging worlds through changing forms of media and marketing;
ethnographies of the reporting and branding of places’.
The panel is part of the 17th World Congress of the International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences which has the overall theme
'Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds'. The Congress is hosted by the
University of Manchester (5 - 10 August 2013).
For full details please visit:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1710
To propose an abstract scroll down to end of the panel page and sign up/log
in to nomadit. The abstract needs to be submitted online through normadit.
Congress website:
http://www.iuaes2013.org/index.html
Deadline: 3/8/2012 Convenor: Karin Ahlberg Short Abstract
This panel explores how particular places (continents, countries, or
cities) from afar become known to people through changing forms of news
media and place promotion. Ethnographic studies, dealing with a variety of
aspects of the circulations of such places are encouraged.
Long Abstract
Focusing on how news media and tourism/investment campaigns 'brand',
'promote' or 'shape' places, this panel explores interstices between
different forms of 'making places from afar'. It also investigates the
cultural work these 'images' or 'realities' do on, to and with people.
The panel aims to gain insight into the conditions and networks of
productions and circulations of news media and 'place promotion'. How do
'images' or 'realities' about a place come into being, and what do they do
with people who come in contact with them? What are the major changes that
have taken place within the last decades within the news industry and
'place promotion'? How is this related to technological developments within
media and communication? And what do the ownership and partnerships
structures of such promotion look like?
The panel encourages contributions, providing insights into what sort of
'cultural work' promoted 'images' or 'realities' do on people, positioned
at different nodes along these circulations (producers and consumers).
Whereas the travel industry normally presents the world as a set of
‘visitable’ places, places mentioned in news media are normally places of
conflict, deemed unsuitable to visit. What happens to people's
understandings of a place when it figures both in tourism campaigns and in
news?
By bringing together ethnographic insights from different people along
circulations of such 'place making', the panel hopes to foster an
understanding for the conditions, aims and work of emerging worlds within
our media horizons, as presented in the conflation of news media and place
promoters.
Looking forward to hear from you,
All the best/Vänligen
Karin Ahlberg
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies
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