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On 1/02/12 9:59 PM, "Garth Lean" <G.Lean@uws.edu.au> wrote:
>***** Apologies for cross posting *****
>
>Travel and Transformation€
>
>Edited by: Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton (University of
>Western Sydney, Australia)
>
>Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of
>transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. As Bruner
>(1991) pointed out some two decades ago, this is not all too surprising,
>given the ubiquity of quips such as Œa trip to remember¹ or Œa trip of a
>lifetime¹ within the marketing material that accompanies the tourism
>industry. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on
>the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with
>little in the way of a balanced corpus of academic literature surrounding
>these themes. Instead, much of the literature remains focused upon
>describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a
>supply-side perspective and taxonomising travellers on the basis of their
>level of involvement and interest. Occasional forays into theory have
>generated some important milestone contributions but there have been few
>new attempts at a rigorous re-theorisation of the issues. Thus, while
>threads of research have emerged that take Œtransformation¹ seriously,
>these have tended to focus upon particular niches study abroad,
>backpacking, volunteer tourism, nature-based recreation and so forth. The
>opportunity to explore the general socio-cultural phenomenon of
>transformation through travel has thus far been missed (Lean 2009).
>
>This Call for Papers aims to attend to this lacuna in the literature,
>reflecting upon what it means to transform through travel in a modern,
>mobile world. We seek contributions from a multidisciplinary cohort
>(including, but certainly not limited to: geographers, sociologists,
>cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers,
>historians and literary scholars), who are researching and considering
>notions of experience, mobility and affect, all of which seem central to
>the idea of Œtransformation¹. As a catalyst for ideas, but in no way a
>restrictive list, possible themes might include:
>
>
>· Travel as an agent of personal, social and/or cultural
>transformation, in both modern and historical contexts;
>
>· Representations of transformation through travel in movies,
>literature, art, performances, photographs, family historiesŠ;
>
>· Travel and transformation from non-western perspectives;
>
>· Transformation through non-physical travel imaginary,
>virtual, communicative, Š;
>
>· The role of the senses in transformation sight, sound, taste,
>smell and touch;
>
>· Transformation through travel in relation to gender, race,
>class, Š;
>
>· Non-transformative travel and critiques of the promotion of
>travel as an agent of transformation;
>
>The volume seeks contributions from a variety of physical and
>non-physical travel perspectives (such as migration, refugees, military
>service, virtual travel, imaginative travel, pilgrimage and so forth). We
>would also like to see proposals that reach beyond Western and textual
>representations, and that examine new methods for the investigation,
>analysis and presentation of travel and its impact upon travellers,
>societies and cultures. Travel and transformation can be defined as
>contributors wish, and may remain undefined. While the book will
>incorporate chapters from established figures, we also encourage
>submissions from postgraduate students too. A word limit of 67,000 is
>proposed for each chapter (including references).
>
>Writing Schedule:
>Please submit chapter proposals (abstracts of up to 500 words) to the
>volume¹s editors at g.lean@uws.edu.au<mailto:g.lean@uws.edu.au> by 9th
>March 2012, with decisions by the editors communicated by the early of
>April 2012. First drafts of accepted contributions will be due by the end
>of August 2012, with the full manuscript deliverable by the end of April
>2013.
>
>See attached for details on editors and references.
>
>* This book proposal will be submitted as part of Current Developments in
>the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism, a book series of the Geographies
>of Leisure and Tourism Research Group with the Royal Geographical Society
>and the Institute of British Geographers (GLTRG) (Series Editors: Jan
>Mosedale and Caroline Scarles).
>
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>Dr Garth Lean
>Postdoctoral Fellow
>School of Social Sciences (P.G.02, Kingswood Campus)
>University of Western Sydney
>
>Mail: Locked Bag 1791, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia
>
>Phone: (+61) 02 4736 0350 (x2350) Mobile: (+61) 0421 326 406 Email:
>g.lean@uws.edu.au<mailto:g.lean@uws.edu.au> Website:
>www.transformativetravel.com
>
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>€ This book proposal will be submitted as part of Current Developments in
>the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism, a book series of the Geographies
>of Leisure and Tourism Research Group with the Royal Geographical Society
>and the Institute of British Geographers (GLTRG) (Series Editors: Jan
>Mosedale and Caroline Scarles).
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