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(With apologies for the cross-postings)
Dear colleagues interested in inland waters,
We would like to invite you to the
First International Conference on Inland Waterways, Waterscapes and Cultural Heritage (Hue, Vietnam, 8-11 December 2020)
Abstract submission deadline:
Monday March 16th 2020
Link to the webpage of the conference: https://www.shimajournal.org/conferences/vietnam/
Inland waterways include rivers, canals, lakes, lagoons, floodplains, reservoirs, wetlands, and inland saline systems. A waterscape can be defined as a landscape in which water is a dominant feature and these
can be very different, ranging from irrigated agricultural areas such as the terraced rice paddies of South East Asia, transport canal routes, urban waterfront developments, engineered lakes, lagoon and riverine environments and many others.
The conference highlights the crucial importance of inland waterscapes as visible and intangible infrastructural networks within various national, regional and local contexts and identifies their function
as tourism and leisure assets. Historic waterways contain elements such as bridges, lock systems, hydraulic factories, warehouses and river port facilities that are increasingly recognised as being industrial heritage assets. It is also important to consider
the socio-cultural value of rivers, canals, lakes, lagoons, estuaries and other bodies of water. Furthermore, inland waters play a pivotal role in our personal everyday practices, experiences, biographies and memories. The intangible heritages of inland waters
are (re)created by a continual interplay between various individual and collective memories and histories resulting in hybrid watery spaces and places. Therefore, we need to pay attention to both the politics and grand narratives about waterways as well as
personal memories, reflections, local traditions and vernacular practices.
This conference also aims to promote waterways and related areas as both socio-cultural and economic resources for developing sustainable tourism and leisure practices, responding to the growing demand for
cultural and environmental protection, as well as for high quality recreational experiences.
The First International Conference on Inland Waterways, Waterscapes and Cultural Heritage is collaboratively organized by Hue Institute for Development Studies (Vietnam), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
and the University of Technology Sydney (Australia). Our aim is to internationalise the emergent field of Waterways Studies and to give researchers from different regions the opportunity to understand the nature of waterways as cultural water-/landscapes across
the world.
Keynote lectures will be given by Prof. Francesco Vallerani (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) and Prof. Bruce Prideaux (Central Queensland University, Australia) plus others to be confirmed.
We welcome papers discussing:
-Tangible and intangible cultural, industrial and environmental water heritage and history
- Leisure, tourism and wellbeing on and near inland waters: boating, kayaking, canoeing, walking, running, hiking, cycling, angling, etc.
- Identities and belonging on and near water
- Discourses, representations and narratives of inland waters in cultural texts and arts (visual art, literature, film, TV, (social) media etc.)
- Water transport and mobilities
- (Potable) water use, sustainability and conservation patterns in agriculture, aquaculture, tourism, everyday life etc.
- Flood (or drought) events and the everyday discourses of the climate crises
- Hydropolitics and water management practices, systems and policies
- Waterfront regeneration, redevelopment, planning and governance
- Infrastructures and engineering: hydroelectrics, dams, canalization
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted to the organising committee: [log in to unmask]
Delegates presenting at the conference will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for inclusion in a themed issue of the refereed journal Shima that will be published in 2021.
The working language of the conference is English.
Conference organising committee:
Dr Cuong Cung (Hue Institute for Development Studies), Dr Philip Hayward (University of Technology Sydney), Dr Maarja Kaaristo (Manchester Metropolitan University), Dr Giang Tran (Hue Department of Tourism),
Dr Francesco Visentin (University of Udine)
Key dates:
Abstract submission deadline: March 16th 2020
Authors notified of acceptance: April 15th 2020
With best wishes,
Maarja Kaaristo
Maarja Kaaristo, PhD, MA, BA | Research Associate (Tourism Mobilities) | Manchester Metropolitan University | Department of Marketing, Retail and
Tourism | Faculty of Business and Law | C2.16 Cavendish Building | Cavendish Street | Manchester | M15 6BG | E-mail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +44(0)1612472650 | https://mmu.academia.edu/MaarjaKaaristo
Latest publications:
Bowles, B. O. L.; Kaaristo, M. & Rogelja Caf, N. (2019).
Dwelling on and with water – materialities, (im)mobilities and meanings.
Anthropological Notebooks, 25(2), pp. 5-12
Kaaristo, M. (2018) 'Engaging with the hosts and guests:
Some methodological reflections on the anthropology of tourism.' Owsianowska, S. & Banaszkiewicz, M. (eds.) Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds. Lanham, London: Lexington Books, pp. 71-88
Kaaristo, M. & Rhoden, S. (2017) 'Everyday life and water tourism mobilities: mundane aspects of canal travel', Tourism Geographies, 19(1), pp.
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