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- Gren, Martin, 1959-, et al.
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Hotel Anthropocene
- 2021
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Ingår i: Science Fiction, Disruption and Tourism. - : Channel View Publications. - 9781845418663 - 9781845418670 - 9781845418687 - 9781845418694 ; , s. 234-254
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hotel Anthropocene is a new hotel advertised as a luxury all-inclusive resort. It was until recently operated under the name of ´Hotel Holocene´, but due to the widespread attention the Anthropocene has received the new owners decided to change its name. The day at the Hotel Anthropocene, written in the form of fiction, renders different ways of knowing, feeling, sensing, conceptualizing, and practising real time ecological mutation. The guests are increasingly dissatisfied and they gradually realise that something is terribly wrong with the hotel. The dialogues and heated discussions take place in the hotel lobby, corridors, rooms, the pool-bar, the restaurant, the common room, and they disclose cognitive and emotional dissonances in relation to the future.The chapter invites the reader to critically reflect upon tourism futures in relation to contemporary climate change and planetary ethics. It disrupts the idea of touristic bubbles without entanglements and responsibility with the ongoing crisis. The chapter also draws attention to a fundamental paradox of tourism, where search for wellbeing and hedonistic joy simultaneously contribute to accelerating climate change. The story at the hotel problematizes the conceptualization and practices of a ‘common future’, especially the future as a utopian time that lies ahead. Consequently, towards the end, the guests begin to realise that there is, unfortunately, no check-out from this hotel.The story of Hotel Anthropocene also raises questions about our responsibilities as researchers and teachers when using fiction as method for producing and sharing knowledge of our current and future planetary situation in the Anthropocene. How do different kinds of stories tune us in, or out? What kinds of storytelling and story listening should we engage in if we wish to contribute to a more caring, sustainable, hospitable and peaceful co-existence in our one and only common “hotel” when cast in dire predictions of its planetary future?
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- Gren, Martin, 1959-
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Time-geography
- 2009
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Ingår i: The International Encyclopedia of Human geography. - : Elsevier. - 9780080449104 ; , s. 279-284
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Gren, Martin, 1959-, et al.
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Tourism geography in and of the Anthropocene
- 2019
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Ingår i: A Research Agenda For Tourism Geographies. - UK : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 1786439301 - 9781786439307 - 9781786439314 ; , s. 117-127
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tourism is inherently an earthly business, whether it is conceptualized in terms of the spatial movement of people to and from destinations or as an all-embracing ubiquitous part of contemporary social life; tourism always takes place on Earth. As self-evident as this premise is, its implications have nevertheless so far rarely been explicitly considered. Merely to place tourism and the tourist squarely on the Earth offers nothing more than traditional tourism geography. In this chaptera tourism geography research agenda is outlined around tourism as an earthly endeavour, premised upon a recognition that humans are all co-extensive with the planet Earth in a new geological era called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene entails the prospect of facing profound changes in the global political, economic, environmental and social order, along with a widerange of possible consequences for individuals, includingin the domain of tourism. The research agenda outlined entails a need for developing alternative ways of assembling for example Nature, Society, the tourist and tourism. Building on the on-going theorization of the Anthropocene, the agenda is to develop a science and a politics for re-assembling those collectives of humans and non-humans. This assembling is about developing responsibilities and attuning to more than human rhythms of life as afforded to those travelling. These affordances and tourism encounters inform storytelling which allows for a minimal geo-ethics for the Anthropocene. One of the absolutely most central, and difficult, of issues for that political and scientific assembling and composing of collectives is about tourism in relation to our common future on the Earth.
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- Abrahamsson, Christian, et al.
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Preamble
- 2012
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Ingår i: GO. - : Ashgate. ; , s. 3-7
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- Gren, Martin, 1959-
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Gamlestaden genom asfalt
- 2015
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Ingår i: Gamlestaden. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 9789188101013 - 9789188101020 ; , s. 117-142
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- Gren, Martin, 1959-
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Mapping the Anthropocene and tour-ism
- 2016
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Ingår i: Tourism and the Anthropocene. - Abingdon-on-Thames : Routledge. - 9781138814578 - 9781315747361 ; , s. 171-188
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Anthropocene originates from natural science, but the concept has during a relatively short period of time managed to spread into other domains. As this volume shows, the time has now also come to the field of tourism studies. In my understanding, this evolving ‘Anthropocene turn’ across the sciences and the humanities is a set of mapping expeditions which have in common that they explore assumptions and consequences of earthly life and existence under the spell of geological forces, earthly boundaries and planetary limits. The quest for the map-maker is thus to decipher what the Anthropocene means, to which phenomena and state of affairs it refers, and to identify potential implications. The particular query to be addressed here is how tourism could enter and find a place in the grand Anthropocene and planetary scheme of things. Consequently, the exploratory aim of this chapter is to tentatively map out some of the issues and challenges that the concept of the Anthropocene poses for the theorization of tourism.
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