Webinar: The body in tourism during pandemic times
This webinar brings together theoretical, philosophical and empirical accounts of “the body” in tourism within the context of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. It addresses the biopolitical and corporeal dimensions of tourism and tourism mobility in light of changing border restrictions, and the imposition of new health, safety and (bio)security regimes. It also considers the embodied realities of those working to serve and accommodate tourists during the continuing health crisis and the implications of such a crisis on the already gendered, racialized, sexualised and classed divisions of tourism labour. We question whose bodies are kept safe and healthy for the purpose of travel, leisure and pleasure, at the expense of whom and what? But also, how has the pandemic reconfigured the embodied and spatial arrangements of tourism, hospitality and leisure at home, in the face of enduring lockdowns and requirements (for some) to work-from-home?
For more information please contact Maartje Roelofsen at mroelofsen (at) uoc.edu
To register (free) please visit https://symposium.uoc.edu/70507/detail/the-body-in-tourism-during-pandemic-times.html
This event will be held on 21/10/2021 from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST (UTC+2).
The webinar is sponsored by the International Geographical Union Tourism Commission (IGU) and is organised on behalf of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the NOUTUR research group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
For more information please contact Maartje Roelofsen at mroelofsen (at) uoc.edu
To register (free) please visit https://symposium.uoc.edu/70507/detail/the-body-in-tourism-during-pandemic-times.html
This event will be held on 21/10/2021 from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST (UTC+2).
The webinar is sponsored by the International Geographical Union Tourism Commission (IGU) and is organised on behalf of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the NOUTUR research group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain.
