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Sent: 11 December 2014 10:33
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Subject: ATLAS list CALL FOR PAPERS - 7th International Conference of Critical Geography, Palestine
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of Dorien Van den Boer, see the call for papers below
Rami
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Dr Rami K. Isaac
Senior Lecturer in Tourism
http://nhtv.academia.edu/RamiIsaac
Assistant Professor, Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, Bethlehem University, Palestine, http://www.bethlehem.edu/academics/hotel/directory
President Research Committee 50 (RC50) on International Tourism, The International Sociologist Association (ISA) (2014-2018), www.rc50.info
Editorial Board Member: Current Issues in Tourism, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cvp-cit
Editorial Review Committee Member: International Journal of Tourism Cities, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc
Academy for Tourism
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The Netherlands
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Dear colleagues,
Together with my colleague Sigrid Vertommen I would like to invite you to submit a paper for the panel on 'Global tourism: making or reclaiming spaces through mobility /circulation' for the 7th International Conference of Critical Geography that will take place on July 26th-30th in the city of Ramallah, Palestine. You can find the abstract of the panel below.
The deadline for submitting your abstract is 16th of December.
Abstracts (max 500 words) should be send to dorien.vandenboer@ugent.be and sigrid.vertommen@ugent.be
For more information on the conference see:
Global tourism: making or reclaiming spaces through mobility /circulation.
The tourism industry has been, and still is, a vehicle for the expansion of projects of (settler) colonialism and global capitalism. First of all, tourism reproduces colonial imaginaries of the timeless, exotic and native other. Native spaces and cultures are commodified in function of what Crick (1989) calls 'the hedonistic face of neocolonialism'. Secondly, these imaginaries induce flows of (metropolitan) tourists who transform places through their presence and fix the native's identity along a particular 'tourist gaze' (Urry, 1990).
Tourism not only brings imaginaries and tourists into circulation, but also generates mobility of capital and labor. It is an important vehicle of capitalist accumulation (Britton,1991). Turning representations of place and people into tourism products often happens in far way offices. The brochures and guidebooks produced here inscribe places into geographies of accumulation but also of imagination. The lack of control over tourism flows, often leaves the actual tourist workers with little means for the appropriation of surplus value (Bianchi, 2011) generating uneven developed touristic geographies (such as touristic enclaves).
Taking these observations as a point of entry, the panel organizes seek to call attention to how rationalities and practices related to tourism produce representations of space and cultures together with frameworks of recognition and commensuration that enable and encourage the flow of people, capital and ideas and the constitution of new relations of power and meaning between them. Learning from the Palestinian case, we are concerned with the ways in which people and places are variously being inscribed into, problematized or erased from the global geographies of colonialism and capitalism. Tourism will thus be scrutinized as entangled in (post-) colonial exploitation regimes, processes of capitalist expansion or settler colonial territorial acquisitions strategies.
We also invite researchers think about how this situation might be challenged, and whether tourism's productive side can be turned upside down into a emancipatory space (Higgins-Desbioles, 2006; Isaac & Hodge, 2011). Can justice tours, for example, be a tool to voice subaltern concerns, strengthen resistance and break through hegemonic power structures? Or are they merely another way of opening new touristic niche markets, thereby reinforcing the dominant geographies of tourism?
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Dorien Vanden Boer| Doctoral researcher
Middle East and North Africa Research Group
Department of Conflict and Development
Ghent University
Universiteitstraat 8 |9000 Gent |Belgium
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