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• 06 déc 2016

  Albi

  Conference, symposium - Geography

  Tourism, identity and attraction

  Cette conférence interroge deux formes distinctes d'attrait pour une localité touristique. Une première forme relève de la reconnaissance institutionnelle de la valeur patrimoniale d'un territoire donné. L'attribution d'une récompense symbolique, d'un label ou d'une certification peut accroître l'intérêt du public et ainsi susciter une augmentation de la fréquentation du site distingué. L'exemple de l'inscription du Vieux-Québec sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'humanité sera ici mobilisé. Il s'agira notamment de regarder de plus près la façon dont les responsables publics locaux se sont emparés de ce signe distinctif dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de leur politique d'accueil touristique. Une seconde forme d'attrait touristique sera également évoquée. Cette dernière repose sur des ressorts plus intimes qui font du lieu visité un espace de mémoire travaillé par le souvenir encore vif du parcours des générations passées. On parle au sujet de cette expérience éminemment identitaire de « tourisme généalogique ». 

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• 15 déc 2016

  16 déc 2016

  Orléans

  Conference, symposium - Law

  Labels in the domain of cultural and natural heritage

  Apparue dans les années soixante, l’utilisation de la technique du label en matière de patrimoine connaît depuis quelques années une croissance spectaculaire. Au regard de cette évolution, le colloque entend porter l'accent sur la typologie diversifiée de ces labels, sur leur portée juridique et leur impact auprès des acteurs du patrimoine et des publics.

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• 31 jui 2016

  Call for papers - Geography

  Yachting: Tourism Development vs. Coastal Protection?

  Yatching: an overview of the situation. The Yatching: a current situation. This call for papers of the Études Caribéennes Journal invites to establish a current situation of the sailing, in all its dimensions: places of sailing, spaces and practices, industry of the yatching, events, development of marinas with economic impacts and environmental issues. It’s a matter of building a multidisciplinary reflection on the sailing. 

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• 15 mai 2016

  Call for papers - Geography

  Southern Mountains and Mountain Societies in Global Tourism: Images and Practices

  Revue de Géographie Alpine

  This is a call for papers for a thematic issue of the Journal of Alpine Research. The issue involves questions regarding southern mountains and mountain societies in global tourism. It focuses on the images and practices  of these mountains for inhabitants as well as the tourists.

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• 19 fév 2016

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Witchcraft, spiritual worldviews and the co-production of development knowledges, practices and rationalities

  Special issue of Third World Thematics, a new sister journal of Third World Quarterly

  What roles do spiritual, witchcraft and magical worldviews play in 21st Century development agendas? Responding to this central query, this special issue seeks to engage interdisciplinary scholarship on the variegated means through which these practices, worldviews and/or ontologies intersect, impact and (re)shape contemporary development concerns, particularly in the co-production of knowledges and practices of development at a range of scales. In this special issue we seek to explore the rapidly changing contexts in which contemporary development knowledges evolve, and in doing so, disrupt conceptions about where valid knowledge resides and how development challenges are framed.

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• 08 jan 2016

  Reims

  Call for papers - Geography

  Contemporary crisis and changes

  Geoeconomical and geopolitical approaches

  For several years, the world seems to have entered a period of high instability. Economically, the "subprime mortgage crisis" appeared in 2007 in the USA, then spread planet wide in all areas of activity. In 2015, economic difficulties persist (growth stagnation in developed countries and lower growth in emerging markets, explosion of unemployment, deindustrialisation and offshoring, market tensions in China, the euro zone, etc.). In geopolitical terms, tension spots have also multiplied (Saharian and Sahelian Africa, Middle East, Far East and Eastern Europe) leading to strong migratory waves while power poles seem to be redeploying between the USA, China and other regional powers.The aim of the conference "Contemporary Crisis and changes" is to question these contemporary upheavals through both a geo-economic and a geopolitical reading. The conference will provide elements of analysis and compare them especially with contemporary representations of globalisation emphasizing in particular the logic of closure that seems to characterize this phenomenon.

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