CHAMADA PARA DOSSIÊ: "Turismo e imagens: representações e narrativas de viagem nos séculos XIX e XX."

Justification

The purpose of this dossier is to provide a critical space for the historical study of images associated with tourism between the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores how visual representations and travel narratives contributed to the construction of territories and identities. The images, in their various formats, functioned not merely as a record of a tourist experience, but as dynamic agents in the shaping of landscapes, desires and travel projects. These images functioned as both a promise of enjoyment and a means of organising flows, channeling expectations and manufacturing collective memories.

In order to this end, the call for papers is structured around the following lines of analysis:

The initial line of enquiry demands the submission of papers that analyse the visual representation technologies employed for the purpose of promoting tourism. The proposal calls for an examination of devices such as travel guides, brochures and postcards, and the manner in which they mediate between destinations and their visitors to construct imaginaries associated with meanings such as rest or adventure. A secondary axis focuses on tourist cartographies, reflecting on how the modernisation of infrastructure leads to the creation of maps that not only represent geographies but also actively produce new tourist territories. Thirdly, the imaginaries in the mass media are addressed, considering how cinema, television and the press are crucial in reinforcing stereotypes about places and travellers, thus guiding consumption on a large scale.

As a counterpoint to these public narratives, a fourth axis focuses on visual memories of travel from the private sphere. Approaches to personal archives—family photographs, diaries, and albums—are valued as they constitute an affective heritage that reveals intimate experiences that dialogue with or distance themselves from hegemonic discourses. Finally, a fifth cross-cutting theme invites us to question the producers of these images. It is considered essential to analyse the various actors—state agencies, private professionals, artists and individuals—whose interests, trajectories and social networks condition the production of the visual culture of tourism, in order to fully understand the context of its creation and circulation.

 

OPENING OF SUBMISSIONS

October 2025

CLOSING OF SUBMISSIONS

February, 28, 2026