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1 online resource |
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Green Ice; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Green Ice? Tourism Ecologies in the High North; The Voyage North; Becoming Ecological; Ethnographies of Tourism Ecologies; Arctic Natures and Peoples?; The Chapters; Notes; References; 2 Responsible Cohabitation in Arctic Waters: The Promise of a Spectacle Tourist Whale; Prologue: A Companion Worth Fighting For?; Introduction; The Spectacle Tourist Whale; The Whale as a Co-hunter; The Environmental Whale; The Invisible Whale and Glenn's Vanishing Act; Responsible Tourism and the Politics of Ontologies; Notes; References |
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3 Chasing the Lights: Darkness, Tourism and the Northern LightsIntroduction; Managing Darkness; Being in Darkness; Experiencing the Lights in the Dark; Conclusion-Green Darkness; Notes; References; 4 Greenland, My Greenland-Accessing Greenlandic History, Identity and Nation-building through its Nation-branding Strategy, a Tourist Website and 247 Comments; Pioneering People; A Contested History; Mitgrønland.dk; Positioning the Comments; Conflicts in the Contact Zones; (Greenlandic) Postcolonial Nation-building and Reconciliation; Notes; References; 5 Afterword; Comparing Visions; Arctic Heat |
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The Rise of New Polar Actors-Implications for Tourism EcologiesPolar Worlds in the Anthropocene; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives. It compares views of the changing political ecology of a fragile region shaped by climatic and cultural factors. In exploring the mutual relations between new developments in Arctic travel narratives and tourism practices. Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North pays particular attention to the changing discourses that produce, and are in turn produced by, encounters between contemporary Arctic peoples and territories. Questions of gender and nationality are considered alongside a comparison of texts and practices in different languages, examining the politics of language and its significant role in tourism. This title pays attention to the changing symbolic value of Arctic discourses in environmental movements, in order to consider the close connections between global forms of environmentalist discourse and action and local cultural responses. An engaging and timely work, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Geography, Anthropology, and Arctic Tourism. Simone Abram is Reader at the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality, and is also Reader in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. Katrín Anna Lund is Professor of Anthropology in the department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Iceland. She has published on topics such as landscape, tourism, walking, the senses and narratives in Spain, Scotland and Iceland |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2017) |
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Tourism -- Europe, Northern
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Animal ecology.
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Central government policies.
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Human geography.
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Physical geography & topography.
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Service industries.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Physical environment
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Ecology
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Tourism
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environmental policy
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Greenland
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Arctic
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human geography
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social and cultural anthropology
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polar region
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Tourism
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Northern Europe
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Abram, Simone, editor
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Lund, Katrín Anna, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137587367 |
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1137587369 |
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