[Anthropgrad] Call for Papers for Session on “Pleasure Travel, Affect, and Multiple Desires: Loving, Lusting and Other Feelings Away from Home”]

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Call for Papers for Session on “Pleasure Travel, Affect, and Multiple Desires: Loving, Lusting and Other Feelings Away from Home”
Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies Conference, April 6-8, 2010
University of South Australia, Adelaide

Dr. Ana Dragojlovic (Australian National University) and Dr. Susan Frohlick (University of Manitoba), Panel Organizers

Pleasure travel brings about and presumably heightens and intensifies an array of emotions and affective dimensions of personal and collective experience—joy, happiness, frustration, anger, distaste, lust, love, longing, desire, and so forth. Travel to faraway or foreign destinations are imbued with the expectation of, and even the longing for, emotional experiences that “move” us beyond our presumable everyday lackluster and passionless realities of work and domesticity. What are the specificities of these affects? What is the relationship between emotion at home and emotion while on vacation out of the country and across national boundaries? How do recent forms of tourism, such as volunteer, medical tourism or reproductive tourism, produce or give rise somehow to new emotions, a new way of feeling? So far, little scholarship on tourism has explored the emotional and affective dimensions of international pleasure travel even when referring to sex tourism, in favor of the rational motivations of tourists, or the economic structures. Yet erotic desires (the love or lust for the Other) are accompanied by and intertwined with multiple desires in tourist quests for pleasure, intensity, assuaging of guilt, and so on. Essentially we want to think more closely about human movement away from home structured by pleasure. This panel seeks papers that engage with these broad questions empirically and/or theoretically. Please send abstracts of 300 words or less by July 5, 2009 to either Dr. Susan Frohlick frohlick at cc.umanitoba.ca or Dr. Ana Dragojlovic < ana.dragojlovic at gmail.com>


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