Final Call for Papers - sorry for cross posting…

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
CFP ends 15 March 2004
Journeys of Expression III: Tourism and Festivals as
Transnational Practice

3rd annual Tourism and Festival Research Conference
Innsbruck, Austria, 5-7 May 2004

Journeys of Expression III is a three day academic
conference being held in Innsbruck, Austria from 5 to
7 May 2004. It is being co-organised by the Centre for
Tourism and Cultural Change at Sheffield Hallam
University (United Kingdom) and the Institute for
European Ethnology and Folklore at Innsbruck
University (Austria). 

The aim of the conference is to present and discuss a
selection of case studies and theoretical approaches
focusing on the relation between tourism and festivals
in the context of the contemporary world(s). Why do
tourists go to festivals? How do they participate?
What do they experience and through which forms of
symbolic or semiotic frameworks do they make this
experience meaningful? Do festivals become nodes of a
transnational social system, of a 'global village'?
What is the meaning of the economic and symbolic
exchange processes involved? How are the touristic
strangers 'domesticated'? Are there meta-narratives,
and what is their ideological grounding, and their
vision of the world? 

The conference welcomes case studies and theoretical
explorations that address such questions. Themes of
interest to the conference include:

- tourism and festivals as transnational social
phenomena;
- tourism, festivals and symbolic economy within
global communities; 
- hospitality, participation and transnational
exchange;
- 'cultural' festivals as international institutions,
utopias and doctrines;
- enacting symbolic continuities of social space, time
and cosmos; 
- festivals between the expression of power and the
communication of experience;
- tourism as a global geographical extension of ritual
processes; 
- heritage, culture and nature as sacred spaces;
- the challenge of internationalisation to cultural
values and organisation patterns;
- domesticating the alien: cooking, eating and
digesting the stranger.

We welcome critical contestations and discussions of
such themes. Please send a 250 word abstract to Dr
David Picard ([log in to unmask]). The deadline to
submit abstracts is the 15th of March 2004. 
 
Conference convenors: Mike Robinson, David Picard,
Oliver Haid
Executive producer: Frederic Revaz

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street - Owen Building
Sheffield S1 1WB, United Kingdom

Email [log in to unmask]
Website www.tourism-culture.com


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