CALL FOR ABSTRACT WARMADEWA INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES PROGRAM (WIISP) 2025

By WARC

October 10, 2025

CALL FOR ABSTRACT WARMADEWA INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES PROGRAM (WIISP) 2025

(Abstract Submission Deadline: October 20, 2025)

Theme:
“Rethinking Nationhood through Tourism, Heritage and Ecology: How do tourism, heritage, and ecology contribute to the construction, contestation, and reimagination of national identity in a changing world?

We are delighted to invite you to participate in WARMADEWA INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES PROGRAM (WIISP) 2025, a collaboration with Praksis (Oslo-Norway) and ISU (Philippines). This conference aims to provide a dynamic platform for students, scholars, practitioners, artists, and community members to explore and discuss how tourism, heritage, and ecology shape and reimagine national identity.

Event Details:
🗓 Date: November 10th-12th, 2025
📍Location: Prama Sanur Beach, Bali, Indonesia

📜 Subthemes:
Tourism, Identity, and the Making of Nations:
- How tourism constructs and circulates national identity (historically and today) – in Bali and other contexts
- Role of storytelling, heritage sites, discourse, and media in shaping national imaginaries (including cultural expressions such as art, architecture, language, festivals, and visual media as tools of national narrative-making)
- Role of diaspora, migration, and transnational flows in shaping national identity through tourism (including intra-national dynamics relevant in the Indonesian context)

Decolonising Tourism and Reclaiming Heritage:
- Potential for tangible and intangible cultural heritage to reframe tourism narratives
- Indigenous and community-led tourism and design practices (including architecture, performance, and material culture as living heritage and resistance)
- Consent, representation, and cultural agency
- From extractive tourism to reciprocal and care-based models grounded in community knowledge
- The political mobilisation of heritage by local, national, and international forums (e.g. UNESCO, policy advocacy, or activist campaigns)

⁠Ecological Nationhood: Multispecies and Regenerative Futures:
- Anti-colonial and ecofeminist approaches to tourism
- Equitable access to clean air, water, land, and a safe climate
- Nature as kin, habitat restoration, intergenerational and multispecies justice
- Tourism’s potential in climate adaptation and ecological repair (Creative ecologies and environmental storytelling in tourism practices)

⁠Place-based Imaginaries in Nation-Building:
- How tourism reshapes urban/rural dynamics and development
- Craft, architecture, and spatial justice
- Which places are protected, developed, displaced—or erased—in the name of national progress?

Policy, Governance, and Plural Sovereignties:
- Innovative governance of tourism and heritage
- Legal systems and land rights
- Equitable access to health, infrastructure, and safe living environments (Including community-driven design of infrastructure and services)
- Nation-building in the context of decentralisation and globalisation
- Human rights, equity and inclusion in nation-building
- The impact of tourism policy on marginalised groups, including women, children, and Indigenous peoples
- Participatory, community-led policy design that addresses diverse needs