Material and Visual Culture: Narrating National Heritage in Global
Contexts

A special-themed issue of Material Culture Review
http://culture.cbu.ca/mcr/index.html
invites contributions that advance our understanding of the ways
relationships of material and visual culture contribute to cultural
tourism generally, and particularly, to the ways cultural tourism
narrates national heritage in global contexts. Narrating may be
understood to mean representing or conveying something about events,
situations or other features relevant to or exemplifying national
heritage, defined in this instance as human landscape as well as social,
cultural and natural environments, objects, images, ideas and practices.

A range of approaches and methods are welcome. Contributors may address
any of the following questions or raise others that explore
relationships of material and visual culture historically or in the
present.

How does the interplay of material and visual culture create, modify,
destroy or participate in sustaining, representing or remembering forms
and practices of national heritage, globally? What challenges does
narrating national heritage in global contexts bring to relationships of
material and visual culture? How and to what ends do material and visual
culture facilitate the mobility of national heritage? How do their
relationships foster, promote or re-narrativize national memory,
identity, history or tradition along transnational pathways established
through diaspora, exile, migration or travel and including to former
émigrés and diasporic communities? In what ways and to what effects do
material and visual culture together address people as the subjects and
subjectivities of cultural tourism? Conversely, how do the subjects
shape and otherwise alert us to features and processes of the interplay
of material and visual culture? What enables material and visual culture
to constitute a contact zone through which national subjects and
heritages connect? How do material and visual culture link personal and
civic history to national heritage in global contexts? How do they
position national heritage in relation to cultural as well as other
types of tourism?

Contributors are invited to submit articles, research reports or
exhibition reviews formatted according to the guidelines available on
the website for Material Culture Review,
http://culture.cbu.ca/mcr/submissions.html. The deadline for an
expression of interest, consisting of a 300-word abstract and cv, is May
15. Completed work will be due August 1, 2009 to Jennifer Way,
JWayunt.edu.