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Call for Papers
HYPER-TOURISM: RE-THINKING TRADITION IN TOURISM AND TRAVEL
Hyper-Traditions Conference
Tenth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional
Environments (IASTE)
December 15 - 18, 2006
Thammasat University - Bangkok, Thailand
As part of this international conference, the Centre for Tourism and Cultural
Change is, in association with IASTE, inviting
papers which address the way that the concept of tradition is being transformed
in and by tourism and tourists, around the three
axes of the conference - From Simulated Space to "Real" Tradition,
Hyper-Traditions and "Real" Places, and Identity, Heritage, and
Migration.
The concept of tradition is embedded in the very nature of travel and tourism.
Long standing customs and patterns of behaviour,
together with tangible manifestations of continuity, consistency and
inheritance, form an essential part of the tourist search for
difference and distinction dressed, to varying extents, in romanticised
narratives. In this vein, tradition has become
strategically and tactically mobilised within the global political economy,
circulating as images, imaginings and ideals that fuel
tourism development and touristic practice. Furthermore, over the years tourism
itself as a product and project of modernity has
generated its own traditional practices which allows us to speak of 'tourist
identity' and which feeds into conventional binaries
of tourists and the 'other' and, 'here' and 'there'. At the same time tourism
constantly challenges and changes our received
notions of the traditional through its constant abstractions, reductions and
packaging of social realities, and through their
consumption as experiences. What does the transformation of tradition mean for
the tourist? Do we have to re-configure tourism as
a way of experiencing hyper-traditions?
We welcome perspectives on such questions from a wide range of disciplines
including those of: anthropology, sociology, history,
folkloric studies, literature and critical theory, linguistics, human/cultural
geography, psychology, and urban studies etc.
Indicative themes of interest include:
* The real, unreal and surreal tourist destination;
* Touristic experiences of hyper-heritages;
* Dislocation of tourists from the travel process;
* Mindscapes and mediascapes - communicating hyper-traditions to
tourists;
* Celebrating the changing of tradition - festivals, tourism and
hyper-events;
* The new economies of hyper-tourism.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Interested colleagues are invited to submit a short, one-page abstract, not to
exceed 500 words. Do not place your name on the
abstract, but rather submit an attached one-page curriculum vitae with your
address and name. All authors must submit an
electronic copy of their abstract and short CV via e-mail. Abstracts and CVs
must be placed within the body of the e-mail, and
also as attachments.
E-mail this material to Professor Mike Robinson - [log in to unmask] no
later than February 17, 2006.
All papers must be written and presented in English. Following a blind peer
review, papers may be accepted for presentation in
the conference and/or publication in the conference Working Paper Series.
Contributors whose abstracts are accepted must preregister for the conference,
pay registration fees of $375 (which includes a
special discounted $25 IASTE membership fee), and prepare a full-length paper of
20-25 double-spaced pages. Registered students
may qualify for a reduced registration fee of $175 (which includes a special
discounted $25 IASTE membership fee). All
participants must be IASTE members. Please note that expenses associated with
hotel accommodations, travel, and additional
excursions are not covered by the registration fees and have to be paid directly
to the designated travel agent. Registration
fees cover the conference program, conference abstracts, and access to all
conference activities including receptions, keynote
panels, and a short tour of nearby sites.
For scholars and researchers interested in the study of traditional
environments, the far-reaching transformations brought by
globalization require not only a recalibration of the idea of tradition but also
a substantial repositioning within a shifting
intellectual environment. While it is clear that contemporary forces of
globalization have proven transformative, the
transformations have largely defied prediction. Contrary to the expectations
that globalization would act as a totalizing force,
somehow erasing "tradition" and challenging "cultural coherence," investigations
reveal that globalization may more accurately be
said to have destabilized the idea of tradition as a repository of authentic
ideas and customs. In this way, it has intensified
the process of de-linking identity and place and, by extension, intensified the
deterritorialization of tradition: a process that
has challenged the idea of tradition as an authentic expression of a
geographically specific, culturally homogenous and coherent
group of people. However, this process is not entirely new. Prior moments of
globalization, such as colonialism, have also
brought about the deterritorialization of tradition and provide useful points of
comparison to the present moment. Prior IASTE
conferences have explored the effects of globalization upon understandings of
space and place; inquired into the post-traditional
condition; analyzed the implications of migration, diasporas, and emerging
hybridities; and asked whether or nor the millennium
marked the "end of tradition." For the 2006 International IASTE Conference,
participants are invited to investigate a new
dimension of the transformation of tradition: hyper-traditions.
For further details please visit the Conference website:
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/research/iaste/2006%20conference.htm
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Professor Mike Robinson
Chair of Tourism Studies
Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
(www.channelviewpublications.com)
Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB
UK
Tel. +44 (0) 114 225 2928
Fax. +44 (0) 114 225 3343
www.tourism-culture.com
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