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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 sep 2016

  La Defense

  Call for papers - Geography

  Before and after tourism

  The post-tourism future and civil society

  The aim of this call for papers is to elicit experiences and/or analyses of the beginning or end of tourism, as well as interpretations of the end of the differentiation between the tourist and ordinary worlds which we are currently observing. Comparisons and attempts at modelling will be welcome. The papers may be proposed by researchers, practitioners or associations and may be jointly authored. They must deal with one of the three topics described below, which are to be the subject of three successive seminars.

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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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• 01 oct 2016

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Financing the city. City transfers under financial stress

  Revue « Espaces et sociétés »

  Funding for the city has been the subject of much attention over the last 15 years. The rise of institutional investors around the pan-securitization of real estate, and the development of private public partnerships in a context of shrinking public resources are phenomena that have overturned ways of doing things. This issue does not aim to analyze new models of financing urbanization as such, but to study the consequences. Several lines of work can be evoked which are all supported by the analysis of social and spatial effects of the ways of funding the city today: the effects of globalized city funding, concentration of players, modes of financing and the standardization of products, the development of new forms of public-private partnership and logical investment locations, the transitional funding arrangements for more sustainable cities or competitive cities through major partnership operations, are questions that can be addressed.

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• 31 jan 2016

  Stockholm

  Call for papers - Modern

  Challenges for the new rurality in a changing world

  7th International conference on Localized Agri-food Systems

  During the last decades, Localized agri-food systems (SYAL) have become increasingly important as tools for farmers, rural firms and consumers to meet market challenges and satisfy the rising demand for "food with a farmers face". The potential contribution of localized agri-food systems to rural development by promoting economic development, social cohesion and counter-acting the demographic impact of agricultural modernization has also increased their political relevance. Previous research has addressed various aspects of the relationship between SYAL and geographical indications, as well as territorial, organizational and cultural issues, but there are still many unanswered questions and theoretical gaps to fill.

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