LDN Love Difference News #105   11-06-2008

Africa: tourism and heritage. Call for papers for “Africa e Mediterraneo” issue 65-66. Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2008
The magazine “Africa e Mediterraneo” is seeking for contributions for the outcoming issue 65-66, curated by Giovanna Parodi da Passano and Alessandra Brivio.
The issue will be composed by a first part devoted to the topic “Tourism, belonging and heritage in Africa”, reflecting over the concept of heritage (artistic, landscape, human heritage), and over the processes brought out by this concept, such as authenticity, modernity, ethnicity, identity, memory, invention of tradition. Key themes of the issue will be: Politics of the heritage and process of tourism development in Africa; Construction and use of cultures, places and identities; Tourism and local communities; Ethnic tourism as opportunity for cultural heritage conservation and promotion of local identities; Ethnic tourism as cultural homogenization and "invention" of ethnicity; The tourism and authenticity: the production of memory and identity; The tourism objects between tradition and folklore; Art and tourism promotion; The production of political discourses on tourism and heritage by the contemporary African artists.
The second part of the issue will be devoted to the case of Benin, to compare its peculiarities, and problematize them, to the issue and topics of interest for the entire African continent.
Deadlines: 30th November 2008 deadline to submit the abstracts of the articles; 15th February 2009 deadline to submit the articles.
www.africaemediterraneo.it

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