GoingToMeet

This conference will address what we broadly identify as the passions and emotions induced by, or associated with, tourism, travel and movement. Tourism sets bodies in motion. It makes people move through unfamiliar grounds. It exposes them to exotic sensations, to the heat or cold of water, snow and sunshine, to odours, tastes, smells, colours, and forms that contrast with the aesthetics of their quotidian environments. It makes them leave their secure spaces of the familiar and exposes them, in secure doses, to the unfamiliar. It involves a transgression of the ordinary, an often ritualised temporary liquidification of moral and aesthetic rules that frame everyday life.