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- Acosta García, Nicolas, 1986, et al.
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Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: a response to Bodin (2021)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sustainability Science. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1862-4065 .- 1862-4057. ; 18, s. 1049-1052
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In a recent opinion article, sustainability researcher Örjan Bodin claims that a shift leftward in sustainability science has rendered certain topics and research methods taboo, thus inhibiting the field’s ability to contribute to achieving Agenda 2030. In this response, we problematise Bodin’s framing of sustainability science, arguing he has misrepresented the field as “normal” rather than acknowledging its unparadigmatic character. It is precisely the unparadigmatic character of sustainability sciences (plural emphasised) that allows the field to begin addressing the wicked problems of our time. The question is then how to “disagree well” and assure quality in this unparadigmatic field.
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- Bennett, Juliana, 1992, et al.
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Fjordguides in west coast Sweden: An empirical study of a blue public-private partnership
- 2024
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Ingår i: IASNR Europe.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The “blue economy” is a new governance buzzword. Public and private actors view coasts as offering sustainable development potential. Coastal tourism is a growing sector of the EU Blue Economy and Sweden views coastal fisheries tourism as a growth area. In Sweden’s “action plan” for fisheries tourism, the sector contributes to implementing the ecosystem approach while also making Sweden’s food industry competitive. We investigate a west Sweden fisheries tourism initiative called “fjord guides” supported by the EU rural development fund and coastal municipalities which is part of a national pilot project for implementing the ecosystem approach in Swedish fisheries and marine management. We examine the ‘fjord guides’ as types of ‘ecopreneurs’ tasked with contributing to national goals for sustainability, asking how public officials and the ‘ecopreneurs’ themselves appraise the guides’ contribution to improving social and marine conditions. Through interviews, we seek to understand what informs this partnership and how stakeholders negotiate and define the role of fisheries tourism in marine sustainable development, which to-date is a debate filled with murky and disparate evidence. This study offers an empirical contribution to scrutinizing blue public-private partnerships, which are increasingly part of environmental governance and are seen as “key” to developing the blue economy.
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- Gillette, Maris Boyd, 1967, et al.
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Mining for tourists in China: a digital ethnography of user-generated content from coal mining heritage parks
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Heritage Tourism. - 1743-873X .- 1747-6631. ; 19:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mine parks and industrial heritage are relatively recent tourism phenomena, emerging in Europe and North America during the mid-twentieth century. In the People’s Republic of China, government officials undertook large-scale promotion of mining heritage between 2005 and 2021, when 88 former state-sector mines were designated national parks. From an official vantage point, transforming former extractive industries into heritage sites helped communities negatively affected by the social and environmental legacies of mining and mine closure to pursue a future in China’s lucrative tourism sector. To date, this endeavour has been little studied, with research on visitors’ experiences particularly limited. In this article, we interrogate Chinese tourists’ responses to national mining heritage by analysing online user-generated content (tourist reviews) from three coal-mines-turned-heritage parks. We ask how visitors made meaning at these sites, and whether and how the mining tourism imaginaries they co-constructed in online reviews resembled visitor experiences of mining heritage elsewhere. How Chinese tourists respond to the parks not only affects the state’s ability to achieve its development goals, but also informs perceptions of mining, energy production, and tourism more broadly. Such perceptions have implications for sustainable resource and energy use.
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- Gillette, Maris Boyd, 1967, et al.
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Mining heritage gone wrong: A study of disappointed tourists at China’s national mine parks
- 2024
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Ingår i: Tourism Recreation Research. - 0250-8281.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mine parks are a late twentieth-century addition to the global heritage repertoire. To date, most studies of visitor experiences at mining heritage sites focus on tourists who appreciate their outings. Yet mine parks do not satisfy all those who visit. What goes wrong for those who visit these destinations and feel disappointed, and how do they express their displeasure? We answer this question by scrutinising the online negative reviews of tourists from seven Chinese national mine parks. Our analysis indicates ‘disgruntled tourists’ want the sites of former resource extraction to include a sight and meet their expectations for hospitable, accessible, and knowledgeable service. When mine parks fail to deliver, they become disappointed, dissatisfied, and angry. They overwhelmingly articulate their unhappiness using a language of ‘lack’ or deficiency and talking about ‘value for money’. The reviews further suggest that disappointed visitors write online reviews to vent negative emotions, warn other tourists, and punish site staff. Drawing on the broader literature on mining tourism, heritage tourism, and visitor experiences, we indicate strategies that mining heritage professionals could use to remedy disgruntled tourists’ sense of deficiency, while also contributing to scholarly discussions about what makes tourism meaningful.
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- Arias Schreiber, Milena, 1965, et al.
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All you need is love: Coastal fisheries conflicts in Sweden and the human needs theory
- 2021
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Ingår i: MARE conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fishing is ubiquitous to spaces where human beings settle near an aquatic environment. Fisheries conflicts are highly diverse and complex arising at different levels of human interactions and in different forms. At a basic level, conflicts in fisheries can be classified according to their severity, longevity and the kind of parties involved. Conflicts involving fisheries can be violent (i.e., wars) and non-violent (i.e. street protests), span for a few years or over generations, and range from regional or transnational conflicts such as the current disputes in the South China Sea, international conflicts like the “cod wars” between Iceland and the United Kingdom, intrastate conflicts like clashes between fishers belonging to different fleets in the Philippines, and inter-personal, concerning for example one fisher and her intermediary. Research on fisheries conflicts has been criticized for its reliance and focus on simplistic approaches in which the (putative) scarcity of fisheries resources is the dominant factor. Such analyses are frequently driven by visions of fishers as “rational economic men,” a perspective that has repeatedly been proven false in fisheries social science. In this paper we adopt an alternative approach to fisheries conflicts, drawing on Bulton´s theory of Basic Human Needs. This theory rests on the premise that conflicts arise when people are denied one or more universal human needs, including needs for recognition and security. We use quantitative and qualitative empirical research with Swedish coastal fishers to demonstrate the utility of this theory in understanding coastal fisheries conflicts.
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- Arias Schreiber, Milena, 1965, et al.
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Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Navigating Motivations for Fisheries Participation and Exit in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Society and Natural Resources. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0894-1920 .- 1521-0723. ; 34:8, s. 1019-1037
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fisheries’ supply of ecosystem services depends on recruiting, maintaining and—in cases of overfishing—preventing fishers’ participation. Participation is influenced by fishers’ levels of job satisfaction and a variety of motivations that cannot be reduced to income size. Previous research on fishers’ job satisfaction has applied Maslow’s hierarchy of basic, socio-psychological and self-actualization needs. Using these as three categories of co-existing rather than hierarchical needs, we investigate Swedish fishers’ motivations for considering fisheries exit. Our results suggest that more than half of fishers are considering exiting and that they identify conflicts with seals (31%), environmental policies (17%) and performance of government agencies (16%) as their main reasons. These motivations, we argue, impact simultaneously basic, socio-psychological and self-actualization needs. Accordingly, fishers’ motivations for participation-exit decisions are not solely, and may not be primarily, monetary. A better understanding of fishers’ motivations, particularly non-monetary ones, would improve fisheries management.
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- Arias Schreiber, Milena, 1965, et al.
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Reconceptualizing coastal fisheries conflicts: A Swedish case study
- 2023
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Ingår i: Maritime Studies. - 1872-7859. ; 22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fisheries conflicts have often been interpreted as arising from disputes over access to fish. Competition for fishing stocks among resources users (human and non-human) and fisheries managers’ attempts to control access to fish are depicted as main causes of conflicts. From this perspective, rampant environmental degradation, climate change and a growing human population will only exacerbate tensions in fisheries. Yet is it only competition for fish that drives conflicts? Research on coastal and small-scale fishers has shown that they fish not only to achieve economic (material) goals but also to fulfill social and immaterial needs. Drawing on Burton’s theory of human needs, in this exploratory study we consider how attention to coastal fishers’ material and immaterial needs might illuminate aspects of fisheries disagreements that are missed when conflicts are theorized solely in terms of material interests. Our data comes from 46 voluntary written statements provided at the end of a self-administered multiple-choice survey on the fishing sector sent to all holders of a Swedish commercial fishing license in June 2019. Results suggest that coastal fisheries conflicts are not solely about access to fish but also about social and emotional needs for respect, identity, belongingness, and status. We argue that an overemphasis on material needs may divert attention away from other causes of tension and thus prevent actions that could alleviate or mitigate fisheries conflicts.
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- Duhem, Sophie, et al.
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Crossing views on real and fake China porcelain
- 2019
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Ingår i: Les Cahiers de Framespa. - 1760-4761. ; 31:2019
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The issue of "genuine" and "fake" recurrently agitates art markets and museums. This is a complex issue that must be grasped by researchers in its transdisciplinary dimension - crossing history, art history, archeology or economic history - as it must be also understood in its technical and material dimensions mobilizing the hard sciences and the field of expertise. This multifaceted approache, necessary for any global consideration of the genuine / fake phenomenon, is even more problematic for Chinese porcelain, since it includes a terminology difficult to set. Thus, the vocabulary of "false" in Chinese, English or French is very diverse; it also reflects various conceptual realities. Is there a "genuine" and/or a "fake" Chinese porcelain? What precise criteria define today the boundaries between what is genuine and what is not? Can we not consider, for example, the aesthetic qualities and uniqueness of an imitated porcelain ware as an expression of a authenticity? In this text, an interview led by Sophie Duhem and Émilie Roffidal, specialists in Asian art market, collectors, academics and curators discuss four key issues : . definitions and perceptions of "fake" Chinese ceramics . locations, methods and strategies of creating genuine and fake . ethical questions (financial, patrimonial, stakes, etc.) . Significant experiences and/or significant events on this topic of genuine and fake.
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- Frisk, Sylva, 1964, et al.
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Sweden's Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness
- 2019
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Ingår i: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 27:4, s. 271-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Between February 2002 and November 2018, Swedish politicians from the Centre, Christian Democrat, Moderate, Liberal and Sweden Democrat parties proposed policies to ban clothing variously referred to as the “burka,” “full-covering veil,” “face veil” and “niqab” (Arabic for face veil) at least 38 times, six at the national level and thirty-two at the municipal. Research suggests that circa 100 women in Sweden wear a “burka”; clearly these policy proposals have little to do with the burka’s prevalence. What, then, do these policy proposals attempt to govern? In this text we adopt feminist political scientist Carol Bacchi’s “what is the problem represented to be?” approach to analyse Swedish bills to regulate the burka. These policy proposals, we contend, have more to do with conceptualizing Swedishness than addressing an existing “problem” of women who wear burka.
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- Gillette, Maris Boyd, 1967
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Anthropological perspectives on food, the body, and Islam
- 2018
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Ingår i: Food and Embodied Identities in the Early Modern and Modern World Conference 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper Gillette uses an incident from her anthropological field research in a Muslim neighborhood in China to think about questions of scale and method for studying food, the body, and Islam. She argues that food, the body, and Islam are multi-scalar phenomena, and that this has important implications for the methods we can use to study them as historians and anthropologists. Her analysis contributes to ongoing discussions about the study of “the sensorium,” or sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch, across cultural and historical difference.
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