[ecrea] CFP: Popular Culture, Fandom and Tourism

**/The Journal of Popular Culture/**

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*SPECIAL ISSUE*

*POPULAR CULTURE, FANDOM AND TOURISM: EMERGENT INTERSECTIONS OF 
DESTINATION PLACE-MAKING*

*Guest Editors*

*Lincoln Geraghty, University of Portsmouth, UK*

*Vassilios Ziakas, Plymouth Marjon University, UK*

*Christine Lundberg, University of Surrey, UK*

**

Popular culture tourism encompasses destinations featured in popular 
culture expressions (e.g. film, television, literature, music, fashion, 
sports) and the people who travel to these places because of their 
association to the expression. Traditionally, popular culture tourism 
research has focused on either one of these perspectives, exploring 
topics like commoditization, staged performances and authenticity; these 
focus on the extent to which a tourism experience is organized for 
visitors and to what degree it can be regarded as “genuine”. Popular 
culture tourism destinations often experience a strong marketing push to 
cultivate niche products and experiences in the wake of being featured 
in a popular culture medium. Thus, unique destination marketing 
opportunities follow this kind of tourism, such as the shaping of 
destination images and brands for example through the re-imagination of 
historical pasts and fabrication of a modern heritage.The tourists who 
visit these destinations exhibit somewhat more complex motivations than 
traditional tourists’ travel motives. Some have a passionate interest 
(i.e. fans) in a particular popular culture phenomenon, whilst for 
others the popular culture association of the place attracts them to 
visit for of added value. For fans, the drama, entertainment, social 
interaction as well as community connections are central to the experience.

The purpose of the special issue is twofold. First, it aims to 
explorefrom a multi-disciplinary perspective the emergent intersections 
between popular culture, fandom and tourism as a debatable consequence 
of the increasing processes of mediatisation and globalization. Second, 
the special issue aims toinvestigatehow the manifestation ofmeanings 
induced by popular culture andcommunal fan identification in search for 
authenticity influence the place-making practices of destinations.

**

*Authors are invited to submit manuscripts relevant, but not limited, to 
the above themes:*

·*History of the intersection between popular culture and tourism*

·*Economic and socio-cultural theory underpinning the development of the 
popular culture tourism phenomenon*

·*Globalization, mediatization and the transformation of popular culture 
and tourism*

·*Popular culture as a means of tourism development: issues, 
opportunities, and controversies*

·*Heritage, popular culture tourism and authenticity*

·*Popular culture production and consumption patterns inducing tourism*

·*Fandom, neo-tribalism and co-creation in popular culture tourism*

·*Integrated destination place-making, management and marketing for 
popular culture tourism*

·*Non-representation theory, space, place and popular culture tourism*

·*Popular culture tourism and sustainable development*

**

*GUIDELINES*

*The call welcomes and encourages theoretical or empirical paperstaking 
an interdisciplinary perspective from academics and practitioners who 
form part of the wider research community, where interests align with 
the themes identified above. For all proposals, authors should submit an 
abstract (250 - 300 words) to the guest editors*, by the date indicated 
in the timeline below.*

**

*Timeline*

*Saturday 1 November 2018:Submission of abstracts (to guest editors)*

*Monday 19 November 2018:Response to abstracts and acceptance*

*March/April 2019:Submission of full papers to ScholarOne Manuscripts*

*April/June 2019:Anonymous Peer Review via/TJPC/(4-8 weeks)*

*June/July 2019:Initial decisions / reviews sent back to authors*

*Late August/Early September 2019:Submission of final papers to 
ScholarOne Manuscripts*

*Mid-September/Early October 2019:Copyediting*

*Friday 18 October 2019:Submit papers for typesetting*

*Monday 2 December 2019:Online publication of accepted articles*

**

*Length of the papers*

*It is anticipated that papers included in this special issue will be 
between 5,000 and 7,500 words. Manuscripts exceeding this length will be 
critically reviewed and if appropriate can be extended.*

**

*Submission guidelines*

*Manuscripts will undergo blind peer review. Please indicate in the 
title page that your manuscript is a candidate for the special issue. 
Submissionsto/The Journal of Popular Culture/aremadeusingScholar 
OneManuscripts-the 
journalonlinesubmissionandpeerreviewsystem.Registration and access is 
available at:*

*https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tjpc 
<https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tjpc>*

*Papers must be formatted in strict accordance with/The Journal of 
Popular Culture/style guidelines. 
Toviewthecompleteinstructionsforauthors,pleasegoto:*

*http://www.journalofpopularculture.com/submissions 
<http://www.journalofpopularculture.com/submissions>*

**

**Editors’ Contact Information*

*Please copy in and submit abstracts to all three editors:*

*(Lincoln.Geraghty /at/ port.ac.uk) <mailto:(Lincoln.Geraghty /at/ port.ac.uk)>***

*(vziakas /at/ marjon.ac.uk) <mailto:(vziakas /at/ marjon.ac.uk)>*

*(c.lundberg /at/ surrey.ac.uk) <mailto:(c.lundberg /at/ surrey.ac.uk)>***


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