04. Jul 2009 - 07. Jul 2009
Emotion in Motion: The Passion of Tourism, Travel and Movement
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC)
Calverley Street
LS13ED Leeds, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 113 812 8541
Fax: +44 113 812 8544
Email: ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk
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Emotion in Motion: The Passion of Tourism, Travel and Movement
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC)
Calverley Street
LS13ED Leeds, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 113 812 8541
Fax: +44 113 812 8544
Email: ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk
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Registration required, Entrance fee
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CTCC
Calverley Street
LS13ED Leeds, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Calverley Street
LS13ED Leeds, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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This conference will address what we broadly identify as the passions and emotions induced by, or associated with, tourism, travel and movement. Tourism sets bodies in motion. It makes people move through unfamiliar grounds. It exposes them to exotic sensations, to the heat or cold of water, snow and sunshine, to odours, tastes, smells, colours, and forms that contrast with the aesthetics of their quotidian environments. It makes them leave their secure spaces of the familiar and exposes them, in secure doses, to the unfamiliar. It involves a transgression of the ordinary, an often ritualised temporary liquidification of moral and aesthetic rules that frame everyday life.
The emotions of tourism, travel and movement, and the passions through which these are articulated, are hence directly linked to forms of motion. Motion disturbs the cognitive order of those in movement and challenges them to discover the familiar in the unfamiliar, to reconstruct and reconsider normality through the encounter of the extraordinary. It challenges them to repossess their bodies, to rethink the fundament of their being, to reassess the separations that configure the natures and identities of their belonging. Motion and the passions through which it is cultivated in tourism and other fields of movement involves important psychological, economic, ethical and political issues.
In many ways, motion creates its own frameworks of order and meaning. How does movement set emotions in motion? How do emotions work in travel and other movement based practices? How can different understandings of the concept of passion help to better understand such practices? What are the social consequences?
The emotions of tourism, travel and movement, and the passions through which these are articulated, are hence directly linked to forms of motion. Motion disturbs the cognitive order of those in movement and challenges them to discover the familiar in the unfamiliar, to reconstruct and reconsider normality through the encounter of the extraordinary. It challenges them to repossess their bodies, to rethink the fundament of their being, to reassess the separations that configure the natures and identities of their belonging. Motion and the passions through which it is cultivated in tourism and other fields of movement involves important psychological, economic, ethical and political issues.
In many ways, motion creates its own frameworks of order and meaning. How does movement set emotions in motion? How do emotions work in travel and other movement based practices? How can different understandings of the concept of passion help to better understand such practices? What are the social consequences?
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Elvi Whittaker; Claudia A. Müller; Anya Bernstein; Julia D. Harrison; Samuel M. Anderson; Eugenia Afinoguénova; Sunyoung Hong; Wolfgang Georg; Füsun Curaoglu; Grant McCall; John P. Taylor
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