[Commlist] Call for Chapters: “Fantasy geographies: Tourism, worldbuilding, heritage, meaning-making, ecologies and futures”

Call for Chapters: “Fantasy geographies: Tourism, worldbuilding, 
heritage, meaning-making, ecologies and futures”

Edited by Jane Lovell, Evgenia Amey, Stijn Reijnders, Nitasha Sharma and 
Nicola MacLeod

We invite abstract chapter submissions of 1000 words for a new volume on 
geographies of fantasy, to be submitted by 31 January 2025. The volume 
welcomes interdisciplinary viewpoints and encourages submissions from 
authors based in different geographical regions.

Purpose of the book

This book aims to bring a significant new addition to critical tourism 
studies, dealing with an economically, culturally and environmentally 
significant topic that is yet often under-researched. We are interested 
in how different aspects of fantasy worlds inform and inspire 
placemaking, inclusive experiences, and greening practices, as informed 
by research in the fields of geography, ecology, tourism, heritage, 
media, fan, religion, literature, and cultural studies. The book offers 
insights into meaning-making processes, human-place relationships and 
the greening of our imaginations. The popularity of the fantasy genre, 
its critical and transformative potential, and the setting’s narrative 
importance - geographically, historically and culturally - gives the 
focus of the book high contemporary relevance.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  * The Otherworldly: place in the fantasy genre (secondary worlds, 
portals)
  * Geo-fiction: localisations and mobilities
  * Fantasy maps / actual-world mapping
  * Production of fantasy /worldbuilding: localisations and mobilities
  * (Re)imagining place and time through fantasy
  * Fantasy spaces, rituals and practices
  * Fantasy spaces and nostalgia

  * Authenticating fantasy spaces
  * Fantasy and forests/natural locations
  * Fantasy, inclusion and accessibility
  * Fantasy-themed environments
  * Fantasy architectures
  * Fantasy festivals and events
  * Getting lost in fantasia
  * VR/AR experiences of fantasy
  * Fantasy and nation branding, mythologisation and heritage
  * Evolving fantasy heritages
  * Fantasy spaces and overtourism/mediatisation/globalisation

  * Critical and transformative potential of fantasy and mobilities
    inspired by it
  * Fantasy and (post) colonial imaginaries
  * Environmental fantasy
  * Fantasy mobilities and wellbeing
  * Fantasy dystopias
  * Spatial politics of fantasy
  * Affective atmospheres
  * Global variations of fantasy spaces and mobilities

Chapter abstract guidelines

Each chapter will be approximately 7000 words in length and contain 
original research on the topic of fantasy tourism. Please submit your 
abstracts to (Jane.Lovell /at/ Canterbury.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Jane.Lovell /at/ Canterbury.ac.uk)>

and (Evgenia.Amey /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(Evgenia.Amey /at/ gmail.com)> copying both in.

Include:

-Name(s), affiliation(s), and email contact(s) of author(s), clearly 
indicating the corresponding author.

-Proposed title.

-A 500-word text including your topic, research question, method and 
original contribution

-3 key references.

-5 keywords.

Tentative schedule

Call for Chapters – Issued 4 December 2024

Abstract deadline – 31 January 2025

Abstract deadline – 28 February 2025

Draft Chapters Received – 31 July 2025

Chapter Revision Guidelines – 31 September 2025

Tentative submission – February 2026.

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