[Backstage-list] H-Travel/CFP/The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel

[Michael Zinganel]

Betreff: H-Travel/CFP/The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:06:15 +0100
From: "Carl, Daniela" <D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk>
Subject: Forthcoming Event of the CTCC

Things that Move:

The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel

19 ­ 23 July, 2007, Leeds, United Kingdom

Whatever the prophecies of Œvirtual¹ reality, we inhabit and move through
the Œreal¹ world of objects. Though tourism and travel are bound to concepts
of time and space, they are also rooted in the material world ­ a tangible
world of places, things, edifices, buildings, monuments and Œstuff¹. The
relationships we develop and share with these things varies from the remote
to the intimate, from the transient to the lasting and from the passive to
the passionate. Within the practices of tourism and its use (and non-use) of
the material world, and, though the act of travel, objects are given
meaning, status, and are endowed with symbolism and power. Objects
construct, represent and even define the tourist experience. Our journeys
through the world of objects generate a plethora of emotions ­ pleasure,
attachment, belonging, angst, envy, exclusion, loathing and fear ­ and feed
on-going discourse and narratives. Moreover, through tourism, and our
touristic encounters, the material world itself is challenged and changed.

CALL FOR PAPERS

In this, our fifth annual international research conference, we seek to
explore the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and material culture
­ the built environment, infrastructures, consumer and household goods, art,
souvenirs, ephemera and landscapes. As in previous events, the conference
aims to provoke critical dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries and
epistemologies and thus we welcome papers from the following disciplines:
aesthetics, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design history,
cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, history,
heritage studies, landscape studies, linguistics, museum studies,
philosophy, political sciences, sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial
planning.

Key themes of interest to the conference include:

· Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic/political economies of tourism
objects

· The dialectics of tourism objects and places / spaces

· Structures / infrastructures of international tourism ­ building /
architecture / design for tourism and tourists

· Aesthetics of objects in a touristic context

· Tourist art and art for tourists

· The performance of material culture in the tourism realm

· Language and the translation of objects in tourism

· The tourist souvenir - commodity fetishism and religious relics

· The tourist object as metaphor and memory

· Ownership, display and interpretation - contested pasts and presents

· Curating for tourism ­ collecting the worlds of the tourist

· Overcoming the material through the virtual ­ future realms of tourist
experience

Please submit your 300 word abstract including a title and full contact
details as an electronic file to Professor Mike Robinson
(ctcc at leedsmet.ac.uk) as soon as possible but no later than March 23rd 2007.