CALL FOR ABSTRACT

(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

Registration and Abstract Submission
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CallForAbstract

Information Letter (Please find the details here)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrRyOXhTzvnXj1xIw3VIjq2jkEbQSlAh/view?usp=sharing

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