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TOURISM AND PERFORMANCE: SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES

2005 Tourism and Cultural Change Research Conference
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 14-18 July 2005

 

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
www.tourism-culture.com

 

TOURISM AND PERFORMANCE: SCRIPTS, STAGES AND STORIES
is an international research conference organised by
the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield
Hallam University, United Kingdom. The extended
deadline for this CFP is 1 May 2005; late abstracts
may be accepted. Due to lower venue costs, we have
been able to reconsider the registration fees, and
offer a student rate. 

CONTEXT AND AIMS
Performance has been theorised as a way by which human
beings act in society and organise their being in the
world. In the context of tourism, there is much debate
regarding the idea of tourists as performers, 'acting
out' spaces, and enacting 'scripts', through which
they organise and add meaning to their experiences and
journeys. Tourism in this sense can be seen to be
'staged'. But such perspectives raise a number of
questions regarding the reflexivity, the hermeneutics,
the sensual and aesthetic modalities, the social
interactions and the political economy of tourist
performance: How is individual tourist performance
linked to socially prescribed or learnt models
regarding tourism behaviour and spaces? How are spaces
and material culture 'enacted' by and for tourists?
What are the production and consumption modalities of
in situ and in visu stages for tourism performance?
How is tourism performance linked to modes of
touristic social interaction during the journey? What
roles do stories play in generating performativity and
in liberating tourists from the acts of travel and
tourism? The aim of this conference is to explore such
questions by drawing on the methodological and
conceptual knowledge of different disciplinary
perspectives including those of: tourism studies,
anthropology, sociology, history, cultural studies,
folkloric studies, literature, critical theory,
linguistics, human/cultural geography, psychology,
theatre studies and other relevant approaches. 

THEMES
Key themes of interest to the conference include:

- Who is cooking who? Tourism consumption, digestion,
and excretion 
- Hermeneutics, reflexivity and agency: Tourism as a
parable of the social world
- Eden, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Solitary Wanderer, the
Golden Fleece: Archaeologies of tourist imaginary and
performance
- Odour, sound, vision, taste - making sense of the
senses: cognitive categories and perceptive processes
in tourism experience 
- Objects as props - objects as texts
- Staging, eroticising, and making visible:
Translations, adaptations, and variations of the
'cultural'
- Reconsidering the economic in tourism: Transnational
spaces of encounter, production and exchange
- Political and symbolic manipulation of tourism
scripts
- 'Losing the plot': Tourism lost in translation
 
PLENARY SESSIONS
Prof Edward Bruner from the University of Illinois,
USA will give a plenary speech on 'Experience,
Narrative and Memory in Tourism'. 

LIST OF PAPER PRESENTERS 
A regularly updated list of full text abstracts can be
downloaded at our website: www.tourism-culture.com.

Kristin Becker (Dept of Theatre Studies, Johannes
Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany); Gary Best
(School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management,
La Trobe University, Australia); Maria Beatrice
Bittarello (Dept. of Religious Studies, Faculty of
Arts, University of Stirling, UK); David Boles
(NJIT/Rutgers-Newark, UMDNJ, USA); Michael S. Bowman
(Dept. of Communication Studies, Louisiana State
University, USA); Edward M. Bruner (Dept. of
Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA);
Shirley J. Chappel & Lorraine Brown (School of
Management, University of South Australia, Australia);
Lisa Cooke (Dept. Social Anthropology, York
University, Toronto, Canada); William G. Feighey
(Beltourism International, China); Sybille Frank
(Institute of Sociology, Darmstadt Technical
University, Germany); Ulrike Friedl (University of
Innsbruck, Austria); Modesto García Jiménez
(Anthropology, Catholic University of Murcia, Spain);
Donna Glasson; Margaret Hart Robertson (University of
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Keith Hollinshead
(Dept of Tourism Studies, Luton University, UK); Lucy
Huxley (Dept of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK); Jennifer Iles (School of Social
Sciences, Roehampton University, UK); Alick Kay
(Management School, University of South Australia,
Australia); Alan Kirby (, Amersham College, UK);
Sergei Kropotov (Art History and Cultural Studies,
Urals State University, Russia); Jane Lancaster
(Pembroke Center for Research on Women and Gender,
Brown University, USA); Patrick Laviolette (Dept of
Anthropology, University College London, UK); Sonja
Lebos (Independent cultural practitioner, Croatia);
Kenneth Little (Dept. of Anthropology, York
University, Canada); Maria Antonia Lopez-Burgos
(Economics, University of Granada, Spain); Catherine
Mathers (Dept. of Anthropology and Archaeology,
University of Pretoria, South Africa); Grant McCall
(Centre for South Pacific Studies, University of New
South Wales, Australia); Maren Möhring (Historical
Seminar, University of Köln, Germany); Maureen
Mulligan (FTI, University of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, Spain); Sally A. Ness (Dept of Anthropology,
University of California, USA); Pal Nyiri & Joana
Breidenbach (Dept of Anthropoligy, Macquarie
University, Australia); Daniela Peluso (Dept of
Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK);
Alison Phipps (Arts and Humanities, University of
Glasgow, UK); Hanne Pico Larsen; Kathrin Rountree
(Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University, New
Zealand); Jacqueline Tivers et al. (Arts,
Communication and Culture, Nottingham Trent
University, UK); Raghuraman S. Trichur (Dept of
Anthropology, California State University, USA); Hazel
Tucker (Dept of Tourism Studies, University of Otago,
New Zealand); Lauren Wagner (Dept. of Anthropology,
University of Texas, Austin, USA); Chris Wilbert &
Rikke Hansen (Dept. of Planning, Anglia Polytechnic
University, UK); Michael Zinganel (Faculty of
Architecture, Graz University of Technology, Austria).


VENUE AND REGISTRATION
The conference will take place in Sheffield, United
Kingdom. The registration fee for the conference is
£190 if paid before 1 June 2005 and £240 if paid after
this date. We also offer a student rate at £160. This
includes the full conference documentation, an ISBN
referred proceedings CD-ROM, day-time conference
catering, a conference dinner and a field study. To
register to the conference, please use the
registration form included in the conference
information pack which can be downloaded at our
website www.-tourism-culture.com.

ACCOMMODATION
The conference registration fee does not include
accommodation. This can be booked directly with the
venue (address to be confirmed through our website).
Delegates will benefit from excellent rates at the
hotel / conference venue where 3* style bed and
breakfast accommodation is available. A single will be
at £55, a double at £80 per night including breakfast
buffet. As in previous events, we expect that the
majority of delegates will stay on the conference site
and therefore urge early bookings. These rates can
only be guaranteed if booked by 2 June 2005. To book a
room, please use the accommodation booking form
included in the conference information pack which can
be downloaded at our website www.-tourism-culture.com.


CALL FOR PAPERS
Late abstracts may be considered. People who wish to
present a paper should send a 300 word abstract with
full address details as an electronic file to Prof.
Mike Robinson and Dr. David Picard (send to
[log in to unmask] ) as soon as possible. 

CONTACT
For any other or further enquiry regarding this
conference or the Centre for Tourism and Cultural
Change, please visit www.tourism-culture.com or
contact us at: 

Prof. Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard
(email to [log in to unmask])


conference administrators:
Mr Francesco Gilardi and Ms Annie Yeromian
(email to [log in to unmask])


Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change 
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street, Owen Building
Sheffield S1 1WB, United Kingdon
Phone: +44 (0) 114 225 3973
Fax: +44 (0) 114 225 3343
Web: www.tourism-culture.com


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