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American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2023, Denver, Colorado

The IGU Tourism Commission is co-aponsoring a session at the AAG Annual Meeting in Denver, 23-27th March 2023: entitled Planning for urban resilience in the age of mobilities – the challenges ahead. The double session is chaired 
More information is available at:
https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2023/solicitations/39/sessiongallery/6370
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Webinar 'The body in tourism during pandemic times'
​(in collaboration with the IGU Tourism Commission)

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? 

Panellists:
Kristina Zampoukos (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Elsa Soro (University of Turin, Italy / UOC, Spain)
Harng Luh Sin (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Pau Obrador (Northumbria University, UK)
Claudio Minca (University of Bologna, Italy)

Moderator: Maartje Roelofsen (UOC, Spain)

For more information please contact Maartje Roelofsen at mroelofsen (at) uoc.edu
This event is held from 14:00 - 16:00 CEST (UTC+2) on 21st October, 2021.
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.

Website and registration (free): https://symposium.uoc.edu/70507/detail/the-body-in-tourism-during-pandemic-times.html

Nordic Geographers Meeting 2022

Session 41. Biopolitics and the geographies of tourism
Organizers: Maartje Roelofsen, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Joseph M. Cheer, Wakayama University and Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, University of Hong Kong

Chair: Maartje Roelofsen, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

This session wishes to bring together and explore scholarship on the geographies of tourism approached from a biopolitical perspective. Whilst the “management of bodies” has always been a constitutive part of tourism and its spatialities, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the emergence of entirely new states of exception and emergency regimes, geared towards tight restrictions and control over the mobility and embodied practices of millions of travellers and tourists. Debates in tourism over the “politics of life”, now more than ever, concern health and wellbeing at the level of the individual and population, not in the least because tourism has provided in many instances the socio-spatial conditions for the virus to spread. Yet, whilst tourism infrastructures such as hotels and cruise ships have functioned as vectors of the virus, they have also become essential spaces for quarantine and containment. Relatedly, this global crisis has provoked discussion on new forms of intervention imposed on bodily conduct and the associated practices of surveillance exercised by authorities and industry.

In this session, we invite both conceptual and empirical papers that incorporate biopolitics as a form of analytics. We encourage both a re-visitation of classical biopolitical approaches to tourism, as well as re-imaginations of biopolitics (conceptually and politically) that foreground forms of affirmative ethics. We also welcome papers that push beyond anthropocentric understandings of biopolitics and reflect on how the biopolitical operates on/with more-than-human lives in tourism. Examples could include the bio- and necropolitical dimensions of conservation-based tourism, or, the entanglements of pathogens, environments and tourists in biosecurity regimes. Moreover, what role will digital technologies play in the reconfiguration of relationships between hosts and guests and the related spaces and practices of hospitality? And more generally, in this session, we would like to think through how a biopolitical lens is useful to analyse practices and regimes of mobility, security, in/exclusion in the context of tourism. Particularly but not exclusively in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

More information: ​https://www.ngm2022.fi/sessions/

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