From: Macdonald-AT-tsunami.scar.utoronto.ca
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:29:17 -0500
Subject: Call for Conference Papers


CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS

27TH Annual South Asian Conference
Madison, Wisconsin
Oct. 16 - Oct. 18 1998

Tentative title - "De-scribing Travel in South Asia"  

Travel is constructed from particular perspectives (eg., class, 
gender, race, ethnicity, age)  in ways in which only bourgeois 
bodies achieve the status of traveller or are defined as 'proper 
travellers'.  This excludes the labour or movement of other bodies  
(eg., porters, guides, pilgrims, people who travel from village to 
village for social/ritual events etc.) from counting as 'proper 
travellers' and discounts their viewpoints. James Clifford has 
suggested that a comparative cultural studies account of travel has 
to transform travel as a discourse and genre to include diverse 
viewpoints.  This perspective serves as a focus for this panel.  We 
welcome papers that investigate how this transformation might occur, 
and use South Asia as a frame for empirical cases.  Papers might 
focus on how all bodies in motion are travellers - it is the spatial 
act of travel that makes different bodies copresent at different 
times - but that it is something beyond motion that constitutes 
'travel';  provide an understanding of the exclusionary processes and 
practices of travel; examine what differentiates bodies in motion and 
situates them differently in fields of power (eg., intersections of 
race, gender, age, status, wealth etc.); and/or supplants dominant 
narratives of travel through the accounts of diverse bodies in 
motion.

If you are interested in contributing to such a panel, please contact
one of the organizers by April 1st.  Deadlines for abstracts approx.
May 1.

Organizers:

Kathryn Besio
Dept. of Geography
University of Hawaii at Manoa
kjbesio-AT-hawaii.edu

Ken MacDonald
Dept. of Geography
University of Toronto
voice: (416) 287-7286
fax: (416) 287-7283
kmacd-AT-scar.utoronto.ca




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