Please find below a CFP for TOURISM AND SEDUCTIONS OF DIFFERENCE,
an international conference jointly organised by the
Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network (TOCOCU), the Centre for
Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University,
And the Centre for Anthropological Research in Portugal (CRIA).

The conference will take place at the New University of Lisbon,
in Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 September 2010. The deadline to submit
Abstracts is 20 March 2010. In addition to the general CFP, a
number of special interest panels are being proposed as part of
the event (with a different deadline; see below). Please find
updated information about the conference at
www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk.

As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, the aim of
this Conference is to bring together social scientists studying
tourism and related social phenomena from different disciplinary
perspectives. The focus on 'seductions of difference' tackles one
of the central ontological premises of tourism, the relations to
'Others' - people, spaces, times, objects - and the way in which
these enable the constitution and maintenance of Selves. Tourists
travel to, and through, spaces 'different' from those they inhabit
most of the time. They voluntarily expose their bodies to
different environments, ingest different foods, live in a different
temporality, and meet different people. Many authors have studied
how such differences are socially construed, how people,
temporalities and places are experienced and brought into being
through the perceptive realms of the journey, but also through the
political agendas of stakeholders acting within the field of
tourism planning and cultural policy. The cultural history of
tourism indicates that tourists are 'drawn in' by certain types of
places - forests, mountains, rivers, churches and religious
shrines, stately homes and palaces, ancient monuments, ruins,
waterfalls, seashores, countrysides, islands, cities, etc. Some
psychologists, for instance, have observed how some places - such
as Florence, Jerusalem, or Paris - trigger quasi-Stendhalian
epiphanies among certain tourists who often do not seem to share
more than a common nationality. Who, or what are they seduced by?
What constitutes this arousal? How do tourists learn what to be
seduced by? How is the tourist experience and the temptation to
travel culturally framed? What can these attractions tell us about
the moral order of tourism and modern culture? How are forms of
local, ethnic, gender and national self being worked and shaped in
the contact zones of tourism? How are tourist attractions assembled
to entice tourists? Seduction is no isolated act but always has
some form of consequence and usually demands compensation. In the
same vein, touristic consumption is not free, and in different
senses implies forms of expected reciprocity. What are the moral
obligations of those who lure tourists to a symbolic death by
singing a siren song? How are tourists resuscitated, and how do
they buy their freedom? What are the threats and consequences of
seducing tourists? What happens when tourists seduce? How does
tourism seduce all sorts of people and who rejects seduction?
What kinds of society result from tourism?

CONFERENCE THEMES

Along with studies on methodological issues in tourism research,
we welcome papers that address issues related to the theme of the
conference. Indicative topics of interest include:

- Seduction as ontological work: maintaining identity, socialising
time and space, others

- Formations of seduction: social assemblages, contact cultures,
attractions

- Fields of seduction: gender, houses, heritages, nations,
territories, classes

- Mediums of seduction: texts, bodies, arts, architectures, foods
and natures

- Techniques of seduction: performance, flirtation, enticement,
friendship, magic, concealment

- Emotions of seduction: temptations, transgressions, ingestions,
emancipations

- Threats of seduction: spoliation, contamination, exclusion,
death, degradation

- Politics of seduction: hospitality, containment, kinship, power

- Moralities of seduction: values, reciprocity, obligations,
co-habitation

- Consequences of seduction: mobilities, cosmopolitanisms, world
society

GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS

To propose a paper, please send a 250 word abstract including
title and full contact details to tourismcontactculturegmail.com.
The Call for Papers for this event will initially be open until
20 March 2010. Late abstracts may be considered. All abstracts will
be peer-reviewed by the academic committee.

CFP FOR SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS

There is also an option to submit papers to SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS
organised as part of the conference. These panels work as double or
triple sessions (6 or 9 papers) and are fully integrated to the
general conference programme. While thematically connected to the
overall conference theme, these panels aim to deepen a particular
theoretical or thematic aspect, or explore new ideas or hypothesis.
The organisation of these special interest panels is
semi-autonomous; each has its own panel director(s) and most have
launched their own call for papers. The deadline for submitting
abstracts (150 words + full contact details of authors - directly
sent to the panel directors) to these special interest panels may
be after the deadline for the general call for papers. More
details and information at our website.

List of Special Interest Panels:

1. Slumming: Tourism and the Seductive Marginal (Panel directed
By Fabian Frenzel, Bristol, and Ko Koens, LeedsMet, UK)

2. Seductions of History: Visitors' Motives and Experiences in
Historical Destinations (Panel directed by Luis Silva, CRIA /
FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

3. Seducing Bodies (Panel directed by Valerio Simoni, CRIA-ISCTE,
Lisbon, Portugal)

4. Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference (Panel
directed by Michael A. Di Giovine, Dept of Anthropology,
University of Chicago, discussant Regina Bendix, University of
Goettingen, Germany)

5. Borders, Unfamiliarity and (Im)mobilities (Panel directed
by Bas Spierings, Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht,
Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University)

6. Seducing Wilderness (Panel directed by Dennis Zuev,
CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)

7. Cartographies of Seduction: Tourism, Objects and Places
(Panel directed by Filipa Fernandes, ISCSP - Universidade
Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal)

8. Seductions of Ugliness (Panel directed by Tamas Regi,
CTCC, Leeds Met, UK and David Picard, CRIA-UNL, Lisbon,
Portugal).

PROCEEDINGS

Fully revised papers accepted at the conference will be published
in the conference proceedings (ISBN referred electronic format with
international distribution). We are also exploring opportunities to
publish an edited book and special issues of peer reviewed academic
journals based on a selection of papers (developed into full
articles). More info on this shall be available shortly after the
event.

CONTACT

Carina Amaral and David Picard
Conference email: tourismcontactculturegmail.com
Website: tourismcontactculture.org.uk

Address:
CRIA/FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal