[Commlist] CFP: Edited volume Routledge _ Worlds of Imagination: Global Perspectives on Media, Tourism and Culture

*[Call for Chapters] *

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*Edited Volume – Routledge*

*Worlds of Imagination:
Global Perspectives on Media, Tourism and Culture*

*Abstract Deadline: September 1, 2022*

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*_EXTENDED DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2022_*__

Contact: (info /at/ worldsofimagination.eu) <mailto:(info /at/ worldsofimagination.eu)>

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit a proposal for a chapter to the 
edited volume
entitled /Worlds of Imagination: Global Perspectives on Media, Tourism 
and Culture. /In the wake of our successful international conference on 
media, place and tourism held at Erasmus University Rotterdam (7-9 of 
April 2021), we gained interest of a reputable publisher, Routledge, to 
prepare an edited volume on the topic, and we are now at the stage of 
putting together a list of authors and abstracts for its chapters. We 
especially welcome contributions focusing on the Global South. 
Contributions focusing on the Global North are also welcome, but should 
be contextualized within a global framework.

In today’s globalized, transnational, and digitalized media environment, 
popular culture plays a significant role in the establishment and 
(re)negotiation of place identities and the ways in which people relate 
to physical locations. Traveling to film locations, participating in fan 
re- enactments, or visiting theme parks are some of the varied and 
multifaceted ways in which the ties between people’s worlds of 
imagination and the real worlds they inhabit are made tangible through 
place. In recent years an increasing number of studies from a range of 
different disciplines investigating the phenomenon of media tourism have 
appeared. But despite the large number of empirical studies, most have 
been limited to isolated, Western examples. To move this field of 
research to the next level, a more interdisciplinary, comparative, and 
cross-case approach is essential.

The aim of this edited volume is to deliver a significant contribution 
to the study
of media tourism and to provide a unique platform uniting a plurality of 
voices from different disciplines and continents. We seek to bring 
together scholars across disciplines, such as media studies, cultural 
studies, cultural geography, fan studies, tourism studies, and 
development studies. We invite papers that address all themes around 
media, place, and tourism, including (but not limited to):

  * Global perspectives on media tourism
  * Popular culture, heritage and belonging
  * Film (and) tourism policies in the Global South
  * Impacts of filmmaking and related tourism on locations and
    communities around the world
  * Media tourism and questions of development
  * Imaginative geographies in a globalized world
  * Fan cultures among diasporas and other transnational communities
  * Transcultural perspectives on theme-parks
  * Critical issues in media tourism
  * The postcolonial politics of film locations and tourism
  * Media, tourism and sustainability
We welcome proposals for theoretically informed chapters based on 
qualitative or quantitative empirical research of around 6.000 words. 
Please send your abstract of 300-400 words, in addition to a brief 
biography (max. 100 words) to (info /at/ worldsofimagination.eu), by *October 
1, 2022*.

Editorial board,
Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders
Dr. Emiel Martens
Dr. Apoorva Nanjangud
Dr. Deborah Castro
Rosa Schiavone, MSc
Debora Povoa, MA
Henry Chow, MSc

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