Dear all, 

Please feel welcome to attend this seminar in Leeds this week. 

Regards, 
Simone 

Subject: Carnegie Research Seminar - There is nothing so practical as a good theory! ANT going Mobile - an analytical framework to do research with bombs, tourism and advocacy in the Lao P.D.R
Date: 6 April 2016 16:09:08 BST

Carnegie Research Seminar Series 2015-16
Semester Two at the Headingley Campus
 
Date
Seminar
Time
Room
Wednesday 13th April 2016
International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality
There is nothing so practical as a good theory! ANT going Mobile - an analytical framework to do research with bombs, tourism and advocacy in the Lao P.D.R
Dr Andreas Hofmann, ICRETH Visiting Research Fellow
Chair: Dr Simone Abram
12:00 – 13:00
Priestley 105
 
 
Theoretical concepts from Actor-Network Theory can be applied to practical mobilities approach resulting in a multi-layered analytical framework for studying spatially and conceptually disparate social phenomena. This article introduces findings from war and tourism-mobilities on The Plain of Jars in the Lao P.D.R., a post-conflict landscape and emerging tourism destination. Discourses centred on war-scrap architecture and artisan traditions, like war-scrap spoon making as well as the involvement of an American ethical fashion social enterprise are used to discuss how the two selected ANT concepts of im/material semiotics and ontological politics can be combined with mobilities’ concepts of the mobilities of people, things and ideas. This study shows how such an analysis based on especially on flat ontologies is intensifying mobilities, how disparate items and ideas ‘can be caught or not caught’, and how these become materially embedded in different places, markets and agendas. The role of practical mobile research methods in combination with abstract analytical instruments is also considered.
 
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Maisie Coates, Carnegie Research Administrator
Carnegie Faculty
Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure
Leeds Beckett University, G18 Fairfax Hall,
Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 3QT, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)113 812 7315

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