Touring in terms of travel, tourism or varying aspects of mobilities contribute substantially to particular conventions and rituals of consumer practices, especially with an eye towards the enactment of scripts. However, touring consumption delineates a kind of performance that is not only reproduced, but is productive and emergent in its own right. Hence, the more traditional conceptions of tourist, pilgrim, vagabond, refugee, expatriate, international student or business traveler are becoming more and more diffused with notions of what are considered local, regular or insider, and need to be re-examined in the light of a differentiated, complex and individualized everyday perspective. On the other hand, it is as important to consider a touristification of society in which touring as an everyday metaphor can be used to encapsulate new forms of mobilities as societal, economic, consumptive or scientific phenomena.

During the conference, we wish to engage ‘Touring Consumption’ through interdisciplinary and cross-methodological approaches that collapse the poles of materialities and discourses, exteriority and interiority, body and mind, interpretation and meaning, presence and representation, ethics and aesthetics, and form and performance.


Call for Papers

We invite academics with interdisciplinary backgrounds and practitioners open minded to critical approaches to participate in this conference. Speculative, conceptual, borderline and practical contributions are welcome.

To participate in the conference, please submit an abstract of 300 to 500 words to: tc2013@karlshochschule.de

Submission deadline: Sunday 31st March, 2013

We intend to publish the highest quality papers as either part of a Special Edition of the Journal of Consumer Culture to be published in 2015 (http://joc.sagepub.com) or in our book series “Management – Culture – Interpretation”.

If you wish to be considered in one of the publications, please submit an extended abstract of a maximum of 1200 words to:
tc2013@karlshochschule.de

Submission deadline: Sunday 31st March, 2013


General Information
The conference will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany,
Thursday 24th to Friday 25th October, 2013.

Conference Organizer
The conference is organized by Karlshochschule International University.

Conference Language
The conference language is English.


For further information, please check our conference website or contact the conference co-chairs:

Website: www.tc2013.org

General mail: tc2013@karlshochschule.de