Call for Sessions for The Resarch Committee 50, Chiangmai 2020, Thailand, International Sociological Association
Rami Isaac
Call for Sessions Conference of the ISA RC50
Theme: THE POWER OF TOURISM: CONTESTED REPRESENTATIONS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES
Location & Dates: Chiang Mai, Thailand 1-5 April 2020
The Research Committee on International Tourism (RC50) of the International Sociological Association proposes an opportunity for those involved in the interdisciplinary social science of national /international tourism to engage with a plethora of salient issues in tourism studies (i.e. principally matters of 'representation', 'identity', 'nationality' and 'gender') and thereby develop possible pathways for action and research on those subjects. The RC50 Team will organise a spectrum of sessions devoted to both empirical and conceptual studies on these subjects vis-à-vis travel and tourism at the coming interim conference. The RC50 Team invites sessions which adopt or further a social / cultural studies orientation to tourism in the following subfields:
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Representation Discourse and power Meaning making “Truth” and power The politics of representation Representational repertoires Non-representation
Identity Identity politics Multiple identities Self-identity Narratives of loss and hope Framing acts (of identification) Being and becoming Matters of aspiration |
Nationality Imagining communities National narratives Globalisation / glocalisation Ethnicity Diaspora Walls and borders Surveillance
Gender Gender and culture The women’s movement Feminism Feminist in the field Performativity Gender and political discourse Discourses of othering
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Practitioners and researchers from all countries and from all faculties are cordially invited to submit proposals to organise sessions / workshops / panels under these particular (sub)headlines.
The conference will carry on the recent traditions of multi-, trans-, and postdisciplinary avenues to national and international tourism.
Besides these nominated topics, other related topics are also welcome. For each session a chairperson is needed, and so the Interim Conference Team will appreciate it if the offered proposals are accompanied by an indication of who the chair for the said session would be. The deadline for session proposals is 1 March 2019.
Please send your proposals together with a brief statement and preferably also a list of colleagues interested in the subject-matter to both Erdinç Çakmak Cakm...@buas.nl and Rami K. Isaac Isa...@buas.nl.
Deadline: 1 March 2019.
Notification of outcome: 25 March 2019.