30 November 2007 deadline for the abstracts.

The competition has opened for the submission of written works that have as their central theme a reflection on the notion of territory and its links with tourism, heritage and identity. The papers that are judged to be the best will be selected to form part of the seminar Tourism, heritage, identities and territories which, working from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, will represent an attempt to widen our perception of the concept of territory, redefining it in terms of its implications for the field of tourism, sustainable development and the processes of identity reconstruction. It is all about investigating whether, now that mobility affects tourism more than ever, the reassessment of territory as a social identification space and a development space could become a source of conflict or, in contrast, an opportunity for social and economic advancement.

The content of the articles must be connected with the main themes that define the seminar:

• Urban territories, frameworks for living and creators of social relations.
• Territories of conversion.
• Territories "under construction" (or undergoing expansion).
• "Border" territories, forgotten yesterday (or at best relegated) which are now viewed as real laboratories, in the avant-garde of European construction.

Conditions for submission.

Send the summary (maximum 500 words) in electronic format (MS Word or pdf) together with your personal data before 30 November 2007 and the completed text by 6 January 2008 to the following address: bataillou@univ-perp.fr .

Tels. 0033 468 081 819 - 00 33 684 989 240/ Fax: 00 468 081 817

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