Call for Submissions

Submission Details

To apply for a conference session presentation, submit a 300-word abstract with separate cover page that includes title, name, affliation and a short bio of the author.

Submissions due by November, 25, 2026

Email: dstm@gonzaga.edu

We are interested in case studies which either (A) center their analyses on Florence, Italy (or the region of Tuscany) in order to seek translatable and transversal solutions for other destinations, or (B) center on global destinations beyond that bring critical insight into the issues facing Florence. We are seeking to find “common ground” amongst the examined problem spaces that exist across destinations to build a growing literature concerned with promoting Mobility Justice within Destination Management. Theoretical contributions should include insight or practical application to transversal issues across Florence and other destinations.

Topical Areas:

  1. Mobility Justice | motility, capabilities approach, migration, transport, space, accessibility, flows
    1. Migration, refugees, stateless persons, human trafficking and modern day slavery
    2. Critical disability studies & mobility infrastructures for travel & tourism industries
    3. The right to the city, labor and transportation equity
    4. Mobility, technological transformation and electrification
    5. Climate mobility justice and immigration/refugee crises
  2. Social Justice | intersectionality, human rights, kinopolitics, distributive justice, reparation, processual justice
    1. Indigenous rights and land consent
    2. Human rights abuses in the travel and tourism industry
    3. Intercultural exchange for responsible, sustainable, and peace tourism
    4. Reparative justice, public policy, media, and communications
    5. Critical disability studies and transport justice
  3. Cultural Justice | heritage studies, restoration and repatriation, cultural property, political ecology
    1. Art, antiquities, museum studies, and decolonization
    2. Cultural heritage, human rights and access to culture
    3. Cultural property trafficking, return and restitution, reclamation and reparations
    4. Museum security, contemporary eco-vandalism and protest movements
    5. Conflicts in historiography of heritage and post-conflict reconstruction
  4. Environmental Justice | environmental racism, geo-engineering, pollution and carbon, biodiversity and reparations, More-than-human ethics
    1. National parks, seascapes, urban green space and depavement movements
    2. Plastic pollution, chemical colonialism, exposomics and water protectors
    3. Protected habitats, ecotourism and politics of spared or shared land
    4. Agriculture, food Justice, “The Commons”, land sovereignty and eco-activism
    5. Botanical gardens, zoos, “beasts of burden” and more-than-human mobility

Conference Organizers:

Denise Regina Percequillo Hossom, Gonzaga University
Alesia Koush, Gonzaga University and UNESCO Chair - University of Siena