Worth noting and relevant to this inquiry/search:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/25/beyond-the-spectacle-of-neoliberal-misery-and-violence-in-the-age-of-terrorism/
posted from counterpunch
AUGUST 25, 2014
Dark Times for Democracy
Beyond the Spectacle of Neoliberal Misery and Violence in the Age of Terrorism
by HENRY A. GIROUX
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Subject: cfp: TERROR and the TOUR (9 April 2015)
Terror and The Tour
An interdisciplinary colloquium @ University of Roehampton
9-11 April 2015
Call for Projects, Performances, Papers
In twinning Romantic and Contemporary discourses, from Jacobin virtue to Jihad
tourism and from the Grand Tour to post-Ground Zero, the Terror and The Tour
colloquium seeks to facilitate investigation of these critical terrains and
paradigms. How are these twin tropes being used in historical periods, in
post-9-11 politics, in travel writing genres? Is our new age of terror recycling
from an ancien reign of terror? How is it being staged? And how will it play
out?
Age of Terror / Reign of Terror
Jihad tourism – salvage spectacle – dark tourism – the Grand Tour
Relations between terrorism and tourism
Terror and The Tour seeks to both facilitate and generate exchanges through
discourses across a diversity of fields and currencies within arts, media,
humanities and cultural-social sciences. To this end, we seek a range of
proposals for Performances, Projects, Film Screenings, Academic Papers. Ideally
they will fall within one of three Terror/Tour groups:
Travel Party A: Touring in Ages of Terror: Authenticity, Exotica, Horror & Irony
These four travailing tropes of Touring In Ages of Terror seek to encourage
extraordinary renditions of ordinal discourses; the abject with amusement,
brutal banality with barbarous beauty, catastrophe with comedy and
death-cultists with death-defying photo opportunities.
Travel Party B: Terror, Tours and Travel Texts
Embarking from the thinking, this Travel Party seeks to traverse the terrains of
travel as a terrific and/or terrifying text-machine from travelogue to
trip-advised, from travel document to traumatic tweet-length instruction. This
Travel Party undertakes dredging through the potential downpour in
manifestations and machinations of terror as text of travel.
Travel Party C: Performing Terror and Staging Tourism
The coupled concepts of Terror and the Tour might be understood as remaining
integral to, and inseparable within, the everyday interpolation of the
contemporary travelling subject. From regulated platform announcements of
‘suspicious’ persons, behaviours, luggage or packages, to the declaration that
one is not a terrorist in visa applications and at border-controls, such tourist
compliance provides performative complicity to counter-terror culture and
counterinsurgency doctrine. The (bio)political rogue statuses of security in
screening, scrutiny and surveillance of the tourist-as-terrorist, forms a
perennial immediacy within some of the convening conversations for this Travel
Party.
Submitting a Proposal
We warmly welcome proposals from projects that seek to develop innovative modes
of presentation-participation, performance-performativity and
circulation-dissemination of the research outcomes. Please send proposals to all
3 co-organisers. The deadline is 30th October 2014, 5pm.
• Your name & current status and/or institutional affiliation. A brief bio (no
more than 100 words).
• Contact e-mail address
• 250-300 word written outline / brief / abstract of your project with title.
(in docx or pdf format).
• Indication of ‘Travel Party’ for which the proposal is to be submitted
Travel Party A: Touring in Ages of Terror; Authenticity, Exotica, Horror and
Irony
Travel Party B: Terror, Tours and Travel Texts
Travel Party C: Performing Terror and Staging Tourism
Co-organisers:
Dr Andrew Wilford (Theatre, University of Chichester): [log in to unmask]
Dr Paul Antick (Photography, University of Roehampton): [log in to unmask]
Dr Jonathan Skinner (Anthropology, University of Roehampton):
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