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Exploring Innovations and Transgressions in Tourism Mobilities/Immobilities.
Call for Papers, Annual Conference of the Association of American
Geographers, April 14-18, 2010 – Washington, DC.
Convenors: Professor Kevin Hannam (University of Sunderland), Dr Jan
Mosedale (University of Sunderland), Cody Paris (Arizona State University).
*Sponsored by Taylor and Francis Publishers and the Recreation, Tourism and
Sport Specialty Group of the AAG.*
Mimi Sheller and John Urry (2004: 1) wrote in their book /Tourism
Mobilities/: “We refer to ‘tourism mobilities’, then, not simply to state
the obvious (that tourism is a form of mobility), but to highlight that many
different mobilities inform tourism, shape the places where tourism is
performed, and drive the making and unmaking of tourist destinations.
Mobilities of people and objects, airplanes and suitcases, plants and
animals, images and brands, data systems and satellites, all go into ‘doing’
tourism. … Tourism mobilities involve complex combinations of movement and
stillness, realities and fantasies, play and work.” Research into tourism
mobilities has, to date, primarily focused upon the impact of new
technologies and modes of transport and related changing social and cultural
practices as well as the creation of new ‘mobile’ places such as airports
and internet cafés – with little regard for both alternative innovations and
transgressions within mobilities/immobilities (Cresswell, 2006; Hannam et
al., 2006).
This call for papers, then, looks to examine some of the more neglected
aspects of tourism mobilities, in order to understand creative and
innovative as well as transgressive and abject mobile practices that are
constitutive of contemporary tourism. However, we are also seeking research
that examines what happens when things break down in the very ‘doing’ of
tourism and both the immobilities and new innovative or transgressive
mobilities that may then ensue. Hence, we would like to suggest papers that
engage theoretically with the new mobilities paradigm and which examine one
or more of the following themes:
- Tourism, Creativity & Innovations in Mobilities/immobilities
- Tourism, Greed & Excess in Mobilities/immobilities
- Tourism, Inequalities & Abjection in Mobilities/immobilities
- Tourism, Risk & Health in Mobilities/immobilities.
- Tourism, Crime & Terrorism in Mobilities/immobilities.
Please note the guidelines for presenters, available at:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm
Please submit your abstract by October 16^th 2009 to either
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