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The usual apologies for cross posting. ####################################### Mobility and Alterity: focussing on alternative mobile practices ####################################### Conference: RGS-IBG Annual Meeting, 31st August to 2nd September 2011, London. Organizers: Jan Mosedale, University of Sunderland Session sponsored by: Geography of Leisure and Tourism Research Group This session aims to provide space for discussing alternative ways of being mobile. These alternative forms of mobility often reside at the edges of the formal, capitalist economy. They often originate from an opposition to the perceived inadequacies and limitations of the formal economy and so create richer, more heterogeneous experiences. By focussing on practices, rather than categorising different types of tourism or mobilities, it becomes possible to view individuals not as mere subjects, but as strategic actors that are engaged in shaping and (re)producing mobilities (de Certeau). Focussing on practices can assist with analysing how overarching phenomena such as class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity etc. are enacted, (re)produced and potentially transformed in mobile practices by individuals who themselves embody these phenomena. The analysis of practices and actions then become an epistemological strategy as mobile practices become the object of analysis for the interpretation of socioeconomic processes, social structures, materials and meanings (Jones and Murphy, 2010). This session is meant to be a starting point for a critical discussion of alterity in mobility and will hopefully prove useful in developing this notion further. Possible alternative themes on mobility may include but are not limited to: • labour relations • hospitality • transactions • social relations • experiences • mobile strategies • identities • materialities • discourse Please send expressions of interest/ abstracts of no more than 250 words, and a title to [log in to unmask] by February 4th 2011. Cheers Jan Mosedale