From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:36 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP: "When 'the Rest'enters 'the West': (Re-)Negotiating
Identities on Touristic Settings", AAG Annual Meeting 2012, New York City,
Feb. 24-28, 2012
> H-ASIA
> August 28, 2011
>
> Call for papers: panel "When 'the Rest' enters 'the West':
> (Re-)Negotiating Identities on Touristic Settings", AAG Association of
> American Geographers annual meeting, New York City, Feb. 24-28, 2012
> ************************************************************************
> From: Sybille Frank <frank@stadtforschung.tu-darmstadt.de>
>
> CFP: Paper Session "When 'the Rest' enters 'the West': (Re-)Negotiating
> Identities on Touristic Settings"
> Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York City
>
> Conference dates: 24.02.2012-28.02.2012
> CFP deadline: 19.09.2011
>
> Session Convener: Dr. Sybille Frank (Technical University Darmstadt)
>
> Since the beginning of modernity, tourist travel routes - and thus the
> paths of tourism researchers - have led almost exclusively from "the West"
> to "the rest" of the world ("the West and the Rest", cf. Stuart Hall).
> Correspondingly, as far as the western world was concerned, the presence
> of people from the global "East" and "South" largely remained bound to the
> discursively constructed and administratively handled figure of the
> (illegal) migrant or nomad.
>
> In the last few years, however, the expansion and lower cost of travel
> opportunities on the one hand, and the economic upturn in parts of the
> global "East" and "South" on the other hand have meant that western
> destinations have become realistically accessible for more and more people
> from the former "rest of the world" in the framework of leisure-time
> travelling.
>
> This session enquires whether and how western-influenced patterns of world
> order, constructions of identities, as well as traditional roles and
> interactions in tourist space change when, in the context of cultural
> contacts influenced by tourism, it is no longer merely the case that "the
> West" visits the native lands of "the rest", but instead that "the rest"
> suddenly stands on the doorsteps of western villages and cities, in order
> to consume locally, now in the role of tourists to be served,
>
> - their own culture in the western world, or
>
> - "the West" in the variety of its local cultures.
>
> With which consequences, re-establishing or thwarting existing power
> relations between cultures, will identities in these touristic settings be
> challenged, (re-)negotiated and (re-)experienced by different social
> groups?
>
> The aim of this session is to investigate interactions in tourist space
> between persons present face to face in specific places, who are situated
> in power relationships that are challenged by traditional roles and
> cultural knowledge. Particularly welcome are papers that empirically
> examine the changes in leisure-time travelling described above upon
> specific groups (and their relations to others) in touristic settings,
> such as travelers (from the global "South" or "East"), those visited (in
> the "West") or those active in the service sector. Also very welcome are
> papers that theoretically or empirically challenge the classic West/rest
> dichotomy in order to sketch out new categories of scientific thinking in
> the field of global tourism research.
>
> Abstracts (limited to 250 words) should be sent to Sybille Frank
> <mailto:frank@stadtforschung.tu-darmstadt.de>) by 19th September
> 2011. Please ensure that abstracts include all author names, institutions
> and an email contact for the lead author. Authors will be notified of
> acceptance of their abstract for presentation at the conference by 22nd
> September 2011.
>
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>
> Conference Website:
> http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting
>
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> Dr. Sybille Frank
> TU Darmstadt
> Bleichstrasse 2
> D-64283 Darmstadt
> Germany
> Fon: +49 (0)6151/16-5096
> Fax: +49 (0)6151/16-72050
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>
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