ISA RC50 – THE POWER OF TOURISM: CONTESTED REPRESENTATIONS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES, Thailand

01 Apr ISA RC50 – THE POWER OF TOURISM: CONTESTED REPRESENTATIONS OF PEOPLE AND PLACES, Thailand

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Date(s) - 01/04/2020 - 05/04/2020
12:00 am

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• Public

website: https://www.rc50tourism.org

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:

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

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 ÇakmakCakmak.e@buas.nl and Rami K. Isaac Isaac.r@buas.nl.
Deadline: 1 March 2019.
Notification of outcome: 25 March 2019.