Dear all,

Below is a call for papers. You are advised to contact the session
organizer directly. Apologies for cross-postings.

Call for papers: AAG session, April 15-19 2008: The Aesthetics of
Tourist/Travel Landscapes and Self-realization

Session Description
Tourism is still much dependent on the gaze (as one corporeal
manifestation of the embodied tourist) which sweeps the backdrop of the
sites visited. Even more embodied tourist experiences (adventure and
sports tourism, for ex.) occur in specific landscapes (that respond to
visitors’ criteria of aesthetics). Some landscapes are totally
physically constructed (Center Parcs in Europe offer white sand beaches
and coconut trees; the city of Paris threw sand on some of the quays
along the Seine) or are aestheticised to attract consumers (including
tourists).
This session seeks to problematize the relationship between landscapes,
their aestheticisation and the desires of the tourists who visit them
remembering that landscapes are the product of praxis which is rooted in
power and ideology.

For more information or to submit an abstract, please contact:
Anne-Marie d’Hauteserre, adhautes@...





Sanjay K. Nepal, PhD
Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX-77845-2261
Tel: 979 862 4080 Fax: 979 845 0446
http://www.rpts.tamu.edu

Editor-in-Chief
eReview of Tourism Research
http://ertr.tamu.edu/

Chair
Recreation, Tourism and Sports Specialty Group,
The Association of American Geographers (AAG)
http://www.geog.nau.edu/rts