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We warmly invite you to submit abstracts to be considered for inclusion in an edited book entitled Tourism and Embodiment to be published as part of the Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology series. The book will be edited by Dr Catherine Palmer (University of Brighton, UK) and Dr Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores University, UK).
Abstracts of 250 words in the form of a word-processed email attachment should be sent to [log in to unmask] by Friday 28th October 2016. Please include contact details with the abstract.
Within anthropology the body is studied from a variety of perspectives. For example, the body as culture and as text reveals a range of other bodies such as the gendered body, the medical body, the social and the performed body. However, the tourist body remains a neglected area of anthropology generally and particularly so in terms of embodiment, a way of understanding culture and the self in relation to practices of movement, thinking and sensing.
Within the anthropology of tourism questions relating to the body and embodiment have moved increasingly centre stage since Veijola and Jokinen’s seminal article (1994) highlighting the absence of the body in tourism. Studies have concentrated on the senses (Merchant 2011, Waitt and Duffy 2010) or adopted a specific focus, for example by interrogating the relationship between tourism, gender and embodiment (Pritchard et al 2007) and also that between the body and the nation (Andrews 2005, Palmer 1998).
As insightful as these studies are there is as yet no sustained, rigorous, examination of the concept of embodiment in relation to tourism. This is surprising as the body of the tourist is a social body, it engages with other bodies, things, and activities, with other places and ways of living. The body is also affected by the experience of and engagement with nature and the natural world. It shapes and is shaped by technology and may be subject to out of body experiences. In addition, there is not one tourist body but a range of bodies, male, female, transgender and transsexual. Given the complexities inherent in the body-tourism relationship this edited collection seeks to go beyond a singular sense based approach by bringing together scholars contributing to theory in the area of Tourism and Embodiment.
Contributions are welcomed that address but are not limited to the following broad areas:
· Embodiment in relation to specific activities / attractions
· Food and drink
· Memory
· Imagination
· Materiality
· Emotion
· Nature, animals
· Technology – including the idea of post human
Andrews, H. (2005) ‘Feeling at Home: Embodying Britishness in a Spanish charter tourism resort’. Tourist Studies, 5 (3): 247-266.
Merchant, S. (2011) ‘Negotiating Underwater Space: The Sensorium, the Body and the Practice of Scuba-diving’. Tourist Studies, 11 (3): 215-234.
Palmer, C. (1998) ‘From Theory to Practice. Experiencing the nation in everyday life’. Journal of Material Culture, 3 (2): 175-199.
Pritchard, A. Morgan, N. Ateljevic, I. and Harris, C. (2007) Tourism and Gender: Embodiment, sensuality and experience. Wallingford: CABI.
Waitt, G. and Duffy, M. (2010) ‘Listening and Tourism Studies’. Annals of Tourism Research, 37 (2): 457-477.
Dr Catherine Palmer,
Anthropology and Tourism
Deputy Director Postgraduate Studies: College of Arts and Humanities
Joint series editor: Routledge Advances in Tourism Anthropology
Centre for Sport, Tourism and Leisure Research,
University of Brighton,
Greynore,
Darley Road,
Eastbourne,
East Sussex
BN20 7UR
United Kingdom
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