[Commlist] Call for chapters: Worlds of Imagination - Global Perspectives on Media, Tourism and Culture

Call for chapters

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

Edited Volume - Routledge

Abstract Deadline: September 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. No 
payment from the authors will be required. Please send your abstract 
of 300-400 words, in addition to a brief biography (max. 100 words) to 
(info /at/ worldsofimagination.eu) <mailto:(info /at/ worldsofimagination.eu)>, by 
September 1, 2022.

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

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