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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** *Apologies for cross-posting. * Please take note of our panel at the upcoming EASA conference in Ireland (see below). CfPapers is open now until the end of February. *EASA2010: Crisis and imagination * Maynooth, 24/08/2010-27/08/2010 *Crises cruises: tourist encounters and imaginations in critical places (W031) * Convenors Judith Beyer (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) email Felix Girke (Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld) email Short Abstract This panel addresses the role 'crisis' plays in tourist encounters, focusing on travel to authoritarian states which often specifically encourage tourism, and on tourism in (post)-disaster areas. We invite scholars to present empirical studies on crisis as a motivation or justification for travel, as a frame of tourist encounters, and as a commodity. Long Abstract This panel addresses the role 'crisis' plays in tourist encounters, focusing firstly on travel to authoritarian states which often specifically encourage tourism, and secondly on tourism in areas which are experiencing or recovering from disasters. Thus, we are interested in discussing how tourism is oriented to crisis. The 'tourist' has been defined as a person free from social and cultural obligations (Nash 1981). In opposition to this, the 'new (moral) tourists' claim to be subject to obligations wherever they go (Butcher 2003). This contemporary trend is evidenced by ethical tourism schemes and advocacy groups which help travelers in making informed choices in their touristic consumption. People's felt cosmopolitan obligations seem particularly responsive to crises, both at home and abroad. Following the conference theme, we understand a 'crisis' as an imaginative construct which generally serves to explain and justify social action. Thus, a crisis need not entail large-scale effects, but always indicates a dramatization of circumstances, often facilitated by mass-media. Crises and their after-effects have become not only an inevitable aspect of travel today, but an explicit motivation for tourists, be it to provide relief and rebuild (e.g. 'voluntourism'), or to witness and consume (e.g. 'dark tourism'). Alternatively, travelers may cultivate an indifference to crises. Taking note of these current phenomena in tourism, we invite scholars to present empirical studies on crisis as a motivation or justification for travel, as a frame of tourist encounters, and as a commodity. Papers can also discuss methodological difficulties in studying crisis, imagination, and tourism. http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=609 Contact via Conference Website. ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************