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Call for papers for special issue of Tourism Recreation Research
Tourism, Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship
The last few decades have witnessed substantial debate about and reworking of the concept of citizenship. Formally a nationally based political and legal identity (although never precluding an international perspective in the world), citizenship is increasingly invoked as in need of a more cosmopolitan orientation – to be a global citizen is a normative goal in education and often in culture generally.
In turn, cosmopolitanism is associated with leisure travel. To travel is to experience, and experience is central to modern conceptions of social and political enlightenment. Ethical tourism niches such as volunteer tourism are sold and consumed on the basis that they can nurture global citizens, better able to empathise and conceptualise problems that are distinctly global and not amenable to the purportedly limited remit of nationally based polities based upon national interests.
NGOs, governments and educational institutions have supported ethical tourism initiatives linked, often explicitly, to the development of global citizenship. The promotion of this more overt cosmopolitan identity has been accompanied by a crisis at the level of republican citizenship, and arguably of politics itself. As a result perhaps the sense of a moral and political purpose that accompanied the traditional conception of the citizen is being outsourced to a global civil society operating through culture and consumption. Do such initiatives have the potential to nurture new subjects better able to think and act upon the world beyond nationally based polities?
This special issue will look at how tourism is being linked with global citizenship and / or a wider cosmopolitanism, and the worth of such initiatives (both within their own terms of reference and importantly with reference to wider debates about citizenship). We welcome papers looking at specific cases and also broader conceptual analyses.
Abstracts for prospective contributions to the special issue of approximately 300 words should be submitted the editor, Dr Jim Butcher. Final papers will be double blind reviewed as per the normal journal procedure. Abstracts to be submitted up to a May 1st 2016 deadline. Final papers to be submitted by November 10th 2016. The special issue is scheduled for June 2017 publication.
Journal details at: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtrr
Please contact Jim Butcher with abstracts and any queries: jim.butcher@canterbury.ac.uk
* We invite prospective contributors to the special issue to also submit their abstract to the strand Volunteer Tourism: Travelling for a Change? (sponsored by the ATLAS Volunteer Tourism study group and the AAG Recreation, Tourism and Sport specialty group) at the 25th Anniversary ATLAS Annual Conference, Tourism, Lifestyles and Location, (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, September 14-16, 2016). See http://www.atlas-euro.org/ for details.
Jim Butcher
Reader in the Geography of Tourism
School of Human and Life Sciences
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
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0044 (0)1227 782323
http://canterbury.academia.edu/JimButcher
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