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Call – Applications for the First RC33 Awards for Best Sociological Methodology Papers
Deadline: 31 March 2020
Call for Applications for the 1st RC33 Awards for Best Papers
At the 10th RC33 Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus 2020 The Board of RC33 is pleased to announce the introduction of two awards for best social science papers! These two awards will highlight excellent published work by RC33 members. Winning articles will each be awarded a prize of 300 €. The awards will be presented at the 10th RC33 Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus taking place 8th-11th September, 2020.
Those who are not yet a member of RC33 should consider becoming one before the upcoming ISA Forum Conference in Brazil and the RC33 Conference in Cyprus. Anyone who is a member of RC33 as of September,
2020 can be considered for a Best Paper award.
Awards will be given to outstanding recent published work by RC33 members. The Best Paper Award is open to all RC33 members and the Best Paper by a Young Scholar Award is open to RC33 members in the early stages of their academic career, i.e., any member who has a) not yet finished their PhD/dissertation or b) who received their PhD/doctorate after 31st December, 2016.
Selection Criteria
Submissions will be judged by an awards committee made up of RC33
(board) members. Each paper will be judged based on its
– scientific contribution,
– innovative nature, and
– style, in terms of writing and presentation.
Papers can be substantive or statistical- and/or -methodological in nature. Whether substantive or methodological, papers should have a clear empirical (quantitative or qualitative) focus.
General eligibility
All RC33 members at the time of the RC33 Conference in September, 2020 are eligible to submit a paper for consideration.
Submitted papers should be
– on a social science-related topic,
– written in English,
– published in a peer-reviewed journal, no earlier than 1st January, 2018, and
– at least one of the authors (the applicant) should be an RC33 member.
Furthermore, for the Young Scholar Award, the applicant1 should meet the above-mentioned criteria (PhD/doctorate completed no earlier than 31st December, 2016).
Applications submitted to the Young Scholars Award will also be considered for the Best Paper Award based on the basis of the submission’s overall merit. This means both awards could be given to young scholars. Applications from established scholars, however, cannot be considered for the Young Scholars Award.
Submission guidelines
In your submission, please include
– a short abstract of the paper (ca. 300 words, if not already present), and
– a copy of the article for consideration.
For the Best Paper by a Young Scholar Award, please also include
– a copy of your CV so we can verify your status as a “young scholar”.
Application and Selection Process
We will begin accepting submissions on 15st November, 2019.
Submissions should be sent to Henrik Andersen, RC33 Vice-President for Awards, at henrik.andersen@soziologie.tu-chemnitz.de. Please clearly state in the subject line of the email whether you wish to be considered for the Best Paper or Best Paper by a Young Scholar Award.
The deadline for submissions is 31st March, 2020.
After the submission deadline, the papers will be forwarded to the RC33 Awards Committee and reviewed based on the above-mentioned criteria.
Award-winners will be contacted after the review process.
We look forward to your submissions!
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Call for papers [ deadline: 31 May ] > LIVING WITH TOURISM
DESCRIPTION AND THEMES
The production and marketing of places as tourist destinations is one of the most common topics in contemporary social sciences research on tourism. Having moved beyond straightforward impact studies and adopting ethnographic methodologies of experimental immersion, social scientists have been able to grasp in the construction of tourism places in terms of sociocultural processes of actions and meanings, interconnection of local and global economic and political structures, social change, construction and performance of national and regional identities and the emergence of “other” identities, resistance and transformation of everyday practices.
Understanding tourism as an intrinsically cultural phenomenon that can best be studied not as an independent entity, but instead as a social field in which many actors engage in multiple and complex interactions across time and space (both in situ and virtually), will contribute to a new body of scholarship. This approach is interested in exploring the impacts, involvements, resilience, paradoxes and tensions, and empowerment of local communities and their interrelated practices of hosting, moving, producing and consuming, revelled in the particularities of each touristic site. Accordingly, a holistic approach should be taken regarding how tourism fits into broader and intricate sociocultural systems of meaning and actions, and how it operates at various levels, such as economic effects, emergence of new public policies, political ways of legitimacy and/or populism, power relations, sustainability and lifestyles, creativity and entrepreneurship, resources consumption, commodification of culture, social inclusion and exclusion, and inequality. In this sense, ‘places of tourism’ are privileged fields to study the marks (although transitory) of a globalised and interconnected world of transnational flows of products, capital, information, multinational organisations, people and imagery, which expose their local differences and its specific dynamics, discourses, interests and uses of space.
At the institutional level, tourism industry global success has been awakening a growing network of stakeholders involved in tourism development, including local, national, and international organisations, eager to mobilise tourism as a force for sustaining and developing culture and economy. The appeal to visitors’ senses, experiences and feelings, based on market segmentation and product differentiation of a particular place, are new tourism trends in development all over the world. Intangible heritage, food and wine, health and wellness, religious tourism, nature and ecotourism, sports and adventure, technological and virtual tourism experiences are among the raising forms of tourism activities and destinations strategies to innovate and diversify their tourism offers.
This workshop seeks paper proposals focused on interdisciplinary and empirical research on ‘living with tourism’, i.e., a rethinking of tourism economic, social and cultural impacts and its paradoxes, and its wider implications in terms of power relations towards a specific space and the communities that inhabit it. It also invites to a broader discussion on tourism future directions in line with worldwide changes of nations economic prosperity, consumption lifestyles, rising of new markets, brands and activity sectors, and cutting-edge research topics in tourism studies.
We encourage the submission of abstracts on tourism contexts and host communities research related with topics including, but not limited to, the following:
– Social change and its paradoxes;
– Empowerment, identity and representation;
– Governance and public policies;
– Direct and indirect economic impacts;
– Innovative organizational structures;
– Sustainability, sociocultural harmony and integration;
– Resistance, contestation and repulsion;
– Dynamics of local-to-global, endurance and cosmopolitanism;
– Processes of invention of tradition and authenticity;
– Discourses and practices of enactment, performance and agency;
– Production and consumption of heritage;
– Food culture and gastronomy as tourist resources;
– Cultural festivals and corporate events;
– New cycles, new partnerships and new opportunities.
ABSTRACTS GUIDELINES
All abstracts must be submitted in English.
Abstract proposals should include the title, a short abstract, with no more than 50 words, which is meant to sum up the long abstract that must not exceed 250 words in length, plus 5 keywords.
Abstracts submission deadline: 31 May 2020.
Please submit your abstracts: https://forms.gle/XJANi9tETJbRPrZp7
REGISTRATION AND FEES
The workshop registration includes, print materials, coffee breaks, access to the keynote, all the thematic sessions and fringe events.
Standard fee: 160€
Students fee: 120€
Standard late fee (from September 1): 200€
For further information please contact the local organization: sociuseventos@iseg.ulisboa.pt