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Second call for abstracts:
Geographies that Matter
London, 27th - 29th August 2008
Sponsored by the research group: Geography of Leisure and Tourism
Call for Abstracts
deadline 1st February 2008
TOURISM & GEOGRAPHYING MATTER(S)
In accordance with the conference theme, and by alluding to Massey and Allen's groundbreaking (1984) Geography Matters, one could claim both that "tourism matters to geography" and that "geography matters for tourism". But what matters, in what ways and for what reasons?
This session aims to explore geographying matter(s) itself in the realm of tourism, in particular the geographying role of material culture like art objects, artefacts, handicrafts, the built environment, technology, etc. How has this geographying agency of matter(s) been conceptualised in tourism studies? How does it, for example, appear in place promotion and popular representation at, for and of tourism destinations? Hence one focus is on how this particular geographication hinges on certain images. How have these emerged and changed and how are they reflected through the material and artistic matter(s) manifesting them?
But geographical representation is only one ingredient in geographying matter(s). Equally important, in the de- and reterritorialising of the earth which tour-ism is all about, is the geographying agency of matter itself. How does geographying matter(s) enable or prohibit new developments in the tourist industry and create substance for various innovations and destination transformation at the behest of the tourists and those catering for them? Here we are not so much hinting at performative contradictions in consumptive socio-spatial relations, but towards a re-materialised geography with the earth as primary plane of reference. On it tour-ism is mattering through material relations and physical phenomena in a myriad of geographying ways.
Abstracts should be submitted to Edward or Martin
- Deadline for submission is 1st February 2008 -
Session organisers: Edward H. Huijbens
Director of the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
edward@unak.is
Martin Gren
Reader/Researcher at the Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
martin@holar.is
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