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- Bijvoet, Ellen, et al.
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Talkin' 'bout My Integration : Views on Language, Identity, and Integration Among Dutch and Finnish Migrants to the Swedish Countryside
- 2023
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In: Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031429781 - 9783031429798 - 9783031429811 ; , s. 125-161
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Migration to the sparsely populated countryside in the North of Europe has received relatively little interest. We analyse how Finnish (labour) migrants and Dutch (life-style) migrants who have settled in a rural area in mid-Sweden discuss their challenges in relation to transnational migration. Our focus-group fieldwork data indicate that the Finnish and the Dutch participants have completely different views on what it means to be socially and linguistically integrated into a new home location. Our data also illustrate the intricacies of identity construction in transnational migration situations. We describe the Finns as ‘self-marginalised’ migrants who show little interest in becoming explicitly integrated into the village community, whereas the Dutch settlers as ‘involuntarily marginalised’ migrants are frustrated about the time it takes to become included in the local community. The analyses show the crucial importance of the migrants’ causes for migration and their expectations vis-à-vis social integration into a new community.
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- Delsing, Lars-Olof, et al.
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Litteraturkrönika 2017
- 2018
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In: Arkiv för nordisk filologi. - 0066-7668. ; 133
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Bokanmälningar av olika böcker
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- Delsing, Lars-Olof, et al.
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Litteraturkrönikan 2021
- 2022
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In: Arkiv för nordisk filologi. - 0066-7668. ; 137, s. 145-174
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Anmälningar av diverse böcker
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- Ekberg, Lena, et al.
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Identity construction and dialect acquisition among immigrants in rural areas–the case of Swedish-language Finland
- 2024
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In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-4632 .- 1747-7557.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The study focuses on how transnational migration affects the socio-political peripheries of communities. Specifically, we focus on identity construction and on how identities are worked out among second-generation immigrants from Bosnia, whose parents came to the Swedish-language countryside in Finland as refugees in the early 1990s. We analyse the Bosnians’ small stories and their use of linguistic traits from the different varieties in the rural community where they have settled. The framework is narrative analysis coupled with Bhabha’s notion of identity as a third space and how this is manifested in the way the immigrants position themselves in their small stories and how realizations of their third positionings are related to their attitudes and use of the local dialect. The third position is realised as clusters of experiences and attitudes, suggesting different prototypical identity-constructional positions, three of them being the immigrant (i) as a mediator between the traditional local population and immigrants, expressing solidarity to both groups; (ii) as a generic immigrant, belonging neither to the local population nor to his/her ‘own’ ethnic group but affiliating with immigrants in general; and (iii) as an identification of oneself as a permanentemigrant aligning oneself with other adolescents in the diaspora.
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- Greggas Bäckström, Anna, 1973-
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"Ja bare skrivar som e låter" : En studie av en grupp Närpesungdomars skriftpraktiker på dialekt med fokus på sms
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The thesis studies the literacy practices of a group of young people in Närpes in southern Ostrobothnia, Finland with focus on SMS (Short Message Service), both in Standard Swedish and in dialect, but for the most part written in dialect. The aim of the investigation is to describe this writing as a social marker (young people against adults) and its function as an identity act. In addition the study investigates the orthographic norms and conventions that the young people use in their writing. The material consists of 520 SMS and such material as was collected through inquiries and interviews. In Närpes, as in many other Finland Swedish dialect areas, the dialect has got widened areas of usage and is well established and accepted in more domains than before. It is used in the new media and is thereby also gaining larger scope in public space. This also applies to writing SMS in dialect. The theoretical points of departure are taken from sociolinguistics and literacy research. A central concept is the new writing, i.e. writing in electronic media such as e.g. SMS and e-mail, which are somewhere between speech and writing. This has given speech and writing new forms with new preconditions, forms that the new media have “triggered” forth and that the language is adapting itself to. In the first investigative chapter (Ch. 3) eleven literacy practices divided into five groups are analysed: I electronic literacy practices (SMS, e-mail, chat), II hand-written slips of paper (reminder slips, purchase lists, slips to parents and friends respectively), III picture postcards and letters, IV diaries and V school assignments. The informants participate with one exception, group V, in all literacy practices in dialect to a greater or lesser extent. The second investigative chapter (Ch. 4) accounts for the dialect features, diphthongs and consonant combinations that were concretely investigated in the SMS material. The young people’s writing in dialect is functional and shows that the dialect is an important identity marker. The lack of shared conventions for spelling is not conceived of as a problem but allows everyone to create their own conventions, which in its turn has resulted in the tolerance level for variations in orthography being high. One group think that they write as it sounds, while another think that they do not follow any rules. The dialect is reserved for everyday matters, while Standard Swedish is used in more formal writing situations. The literacy practice may be the same, but the choice of language variety varies with the aim, content and length.
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- Julien, Marit, et al.
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Intervensjon i norsk langdistansebinding
- 2017
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In: Ideologi, identitet, intervensjon : Nordisk dialektologi 10 - Nordisk dialektologi 10. - 1795-4428. - 9789515129963 - 9789515129970 ; 48, s. 195-206
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the normal case, a reflexive pronoun is bound within its containing clause. More exceptionally, a reflexive is instead related to a binder in a higher clause – a phenomenon known as long distance binding. Long distance binding can be found in Norwegian, but as I will show here, with considerable variation between speakers. Quite a few speakers accept long distance binding only across indefinite interveners. For those who accept long distance binding across definite interveners, the acceptability drops if the embedded clause has V2 order, and in particular if the initial constituent of the embedded clause is topicalised. Other factors that influence the acceptability of long distance binding are the logophoricity of the matrix verb, the agentivity of the embedded verb, the presence of person features in the intervening subject, and the presence of negation in the embedded clause. Some speakers reject long distance binding only when two ore more negative factors co-occur. This shows that long distance binding is a complex phenomenon, and that individual grammars can give priority to different factors
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- Landqvist, Mats, 1960-
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Förhandlares kommunikativa kompetens
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The subject of this study is language use in negotiations and the communicative competence of professional negotiators. The aim of the study is to make explicit the communicative competence through analysis of language use in four areas: levels of action, topical structure, meta-communication, and coherence. Negotiation ability has been identified and studied within a theoretical framework of linguistic pragmatics, outlined by participant perspective orientated and functional pragmatics, and by a socio-pragmatic perspective on joint action. Linguistic data have been analysed as parts of an activity type, a concept concerned with the connection between language use and the overall activity of which language forms a part. The data consist of a role play, dealing with an interstate diplomatic issue of monetary compensation after an environmental incident. The role play was performed by five different groups, with a total of twenty participants: ten Swedish and ten Russian negotiators. Two of the role plays were performed by well-experienced negotiators, and three role plays by participants without such experience. Three main variables have been used for comparison: experience, participant nationality and the assigned position of the negotiation. The data have been analysed both with quantitative and qualitative methods. Results show that competence is generally indicated by the special ways professional negotiators use communicative projects, create phase structures, and organize topics in local turns-of-talk and globally in the talk. Competence is also indicated by meta-communication, which is used for constructing participant roles and authority, as well as global coherence, all of which contribute to a formal level of interactive style. The interplay of power is performed within a frame of good relations, which is maintained in interaction. Professional negotiators seem to be aware of the importance of creating a common ground in interaction. What aspects contribute to the construction of a common ground can be based on a general premise that awareness and experience combine to create the main rationale for a person to act in a correct way. The results entail a professional network practice over-arching linguistic and cultural systems, where general norms of the activity type of negotiation are combined with specific institutional norms. Negotiators’ national background has however not appeared significant.
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- Löfström, Malin, 1978-
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Språklig stil och stajling bland finlandssvenskar i Stockholm : – ett mobilitetsdialektologiskt perspektiv
- 2022
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I avhandlingen undersöker jag språklig stil och stajling bland västnyländska finlandssvenskar i Stockholm i ett material som består av intervjuer och smågruppssamtal med elva deltagare. Avhandlingens syfte är att undersöka den språkliga stilen när deltagarna samtalar med en sverigesvensk person. Syftet är också att söka rimliga förklaringar till varför de enskilda individernas språkliga stil och stajling ser ut som de gör i relation till deras identitet och till den sociala betydelse de tillskriver språk och språkförändring.Teoretiskt tar undersökningen avstamp i traditionell variations- och sociolingvistik och i modern sociolingvistisk teori. De två paradigmen speglas i analysmetoder och förklaringsmodeller. All språklig analys utförs på sekvenser ur intervjuerna, medan analys av identitetsaspekter och metaspråk utgår från både intervjuer och smågruppssamtal.Sammantaget tyder resultaten på att deltagarnas språkliga stil till övervägande del kan kategoriseras som finlandssvensk. De finlandssvenska varianterna förekommer stabilt i deltagargruppen, och analysen av samvariationen mellan varianter som representerar västnyländska, finlandssvenska och sverigesvenska illustrerar att finlandssvenskan kan sägas utgöra en övergångsvarietet eller en mellanvarietet mellan västnyländska och sverigesvenska. Bilden av att finlandssvenskan dominerar den språkliga stilen speglas även i deltagarnas metaspråkliga resonemang, och tolkningen av dessa tyder på att deltagarnas val att använda finlandssvenska i Stockholm i hög grad kan kopplas till identitetsfaktorer.Samtidigt visar variationsanalysen att språkförändring i form av stajling med sverigesvenska språkdrag förekommer hos alla deltagare, men i olika omfattning och med olika resurser hos olika individer. Den metaspråkliga analysen stödjer detta resultat. Den uttalade stajlingen går dels ut på att stajla helheten, dels på att använda sverigesvenska ord. Syftet med stajlingen är enligt metakommentarer främst att underlätta kommunikationen. På individnivå är stajlingen dock mer mångfasetterad och de språkliga valen kan kopplas till faktorer i den personliga identiteten och till den sociala betydelsen som deltagarna förknippar med olika språkdrag i Stockholmskontexten.En utvärdering av teori och metod indikerar att kombinationen av variationsanalys och tolkande innehållsanalys varit avgörande för att generera resultat som både ger en utförlig beskrivning av den språkliga stilen hos finlandssvenskar i Stockholm och dessutom ger nyanserade förslag på förklaringar till deltagarnas språkliga val i form av stajling.
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Risk Discourse and Responsibility
- 2023
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is introduced as a field that not only targets elements of risk, safety and security, but crucially requires aspects of responsibility for in-depth analysis. Providing a rich illustration of ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools, the volume brings together scholars from different disciplines within the study of language. An Introduction and an Epilogue highlight the intricate relationship between risk and responsibility. Part 1 deals with expert and lay perspectives on risk; Part 2 with emerging genres for risk discourse; Part 3 with risk and technology and Part 4 with ways of managing risk. The topics covered – such as COVID-19, nuclear energy, machine translation, terrorism – are socially pertinent and timely.
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- Wenner, Lena, 1973-
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När lögnare blir lugnare : En sociofonetisk studie av sammanfallet mellan kort ö och kort u i uppländskan
- 2010
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The phenomenon of an ongoing sound change leads in some cases to the pronunciation of short ö becoming more like that of short u. This thesis examines the relationship between short ö and u in Uppland Swedish. The localities included in the investigation were Uppsala, Norrtälje, Östervåla and Gräsö. In particular, the thesis examines the effects of age, gender and social status on the acquisition of a pronunciation where the phonemes are produced in a similar way, and whether the change occurs earlier in some words than others. The informants on Gräsö appear to have the highest occurrence of the merger, while those in Norrtälje are best at keeping ö and u apart. In general, men have a smaller difference between ö and u than women. Three different age groups were analysed and the results show that the oldest informants have the largest difference between ö and u and the youngest informants have the smallest difference. There are no significant differences between the three social status groups, but there is a tendency for those with the lowest social status to be better at keeping the phonemes apart than those with the highest social status. 13 minimal (or near-minimal) pairs were analysed to investigate whether the phonetic context has an effect on the degree to which ö and u are becoming more similar. The study shows that the smallest phonetic difference is found for word pairs with r occurring in the preceding or following context. The largest phonetic distance was found in word pairs beginning with a vowel. The study also examined whether there is a relationship between production, perception and attitude to u-sounding ö in Uppsala. By combining the production test results with the informants’ categorisation of u and ö in the perception test, the study shows that the informants with a small phonetic distance in their own speech were better at categorising stimuli correctly than the speakers who had a larger phonetic distance between ö and u in their own speech.
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- Ädel, Annelie, et al.
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From Risk and Responsibility to Risk Discourse
- 2023
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In: Risk Discourse and Responsibility. - Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 9789027249739 ; , s. 2-37
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Risk communication is widely researched in the social sciences, but in linguistics the study of how risk is communicated has not yet formed a coherent field of its own. In this chapter, we approach risk from a discourse perspective, aiming to promote the establishment of risk discourse as a field of study with its own characteristics. We approach the question “What is “risk”?” through a discourse-linguistic analysis that crucially involves the concept of responsibility. We show that there is a body of previous research in linguistics that has dealt with some aspect of risk, but typically without foregrounding risk or using risk as an analytical tool. We show how this state of affairs also applies to responsibility. We argue that an understanding of discourse about risk and risk scenarios needs to be informed by an understanding of the concept of responsibility. The theoretical point of this chapter is therefore to conceive of and establish this type of responsibility-embedded Risk Discourse. Throughout the chapter, we discuss ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools in risk discourse studies. This is illustrated by reference not only to previous research, but also to the chapters included in the current volume.
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- Ädel, Annelie, et al.
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From risk and responsibility to risk discourse
- 2023
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In: Risk Discourse and Responsibility. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 9789027213891 - 9789027249739 ; , s. 2-37
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Risk communication is widely researched in the social sciences, but in linguistics the study of how risk is communicated has not yet formed a coherent field of its own. In this chapter, we approach risk from a discourse perspective, aiming to promote the establishment of risk discourse as a field of study with its own characteristics. We approach the question “What is “risk”?” through a discourse-linguistic analysis that crucially involves the concept of responsibility. We show that there is a body of previous research in linguistics that has dealt with some aspect of risk, but typically without foregrounding risk or using risk as an analytical tool. We show how this state of affairs also applies to responsibility. We argue that an understanding of discourse about risk and risk scenarios needs to be informed by an understanding of the concept of responsibility. The theoretical point of this chapter is therefore to conceive of and establish this type of responsibility-embedded Risk Discourse. Throughout the chapter, we discuss ways in which risk and responsibility can serve as analytical tools in risk discourse studies. This is illustrated by reference not only to previous research, but also to the chapters included in the current volume.
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- Ädel, Annelie, et al.
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In case of emergency : A responsibility perspective on evacuation practices
- 2020
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Risk communication research spans many domains, including the environment, healthcare, science and technology, law enforcement, banking, workplace health and safety (e.g. Chrichton et al. 2016). The EXIT project deals with issues of security and responsibility in relation to communication about evacuation, e.g. in fire hazards or terror attacks. Our study focuses both on what evacuation information to the general public looks like and on policies and attitudes behind specific evacuation information guiding the general public. We see evacuation information as a possible resource for the distribution of responsibility. The aim is to investigate how groups and individuals construe their sense of responsibility in relation to evacuation: (a) How do people discursively construe their sense of responsibility in the face of risk and evacuation situations?; (b) To what extent does their interpretation of what to do correlate with the intentions of the policy makers producing and sanctioning the evacuation information (on signs, websites)?; (c) What is the purpose of the meaning production in this field of discourse: is the primary function to make evacuation as efficient as possible in a risk situation; is it to educate the public in how to behave in situations of risk; or is the giving of evacuation information a mere ritual? As a first step of data collection, we have analyzed evacuation signs and conducted focus group discussions at a higher education institution in order to evaluate participants’ understanding of evacuation practices and individual responsibility within the institution. ReferencesCrichton, Jonathan, Candlin, Christopher N. & Firkins, Arthur S. (Eds). (2016). Communicating Risk. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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- Ädel, Annelie, et al.
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Risks and responsibilities in the workplace: : Employees discussing evacuation situations
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In: Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. - : Equinox Publishing. - 2040-3658 .- 2040-3666. ; 16:3, s. 265-288
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study analyses experiences with and in relation to issues of risk, responsibility and evacuation in workplace settings as discussed in four focus groups in Sweden and Swedish-language Finland. The discussions, and in particular the participants’ positionings in their ‘small stories’, are analysed from two perspectives: that of narratives, and that of interpretive repertoires. The main question under investigation is how employees at different workplaces discursively construe their sense of responsibility in the face of risk and evacuation situations. The findings show that these issues are handled very differently in different workplaces, but at all in accordance with the participants’ implicit responsibility positionings and what we see as the interpretive repertoires (organisational, instinctual, skills-based and informational) they draw on. Whereas previous studies have considered workplaces with high-stakes settings, the present study is set in workplaces where risk is not thematised on a regular basis, making the results applicable not only to workplace scenarios, but to society at large.
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- Ädel, Annelie, et al.
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"You may feel a few butterflies in your stomach the first time walking out on a frozen lake" : Balancing between positive and negative risk in adventure tourism discourse from "arctic Lapland"
- 2023
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In alignment with the theme of the conference, this study deals with atypical risks and risk-taking. Risk involves two core elements: adversity (referring to something unwanted) and potentiality (referring to things that may, but need not, happen). ‘Risk’ is typically thought of as something negative, and as something that should be avoided at all costs. Risk-taking characteristically has to do with the probability of an unwanted event occurring (e.g. Hansson, 2018). This type of negative perspective clearly predominates in discourse studies related to risk (e.g. Crichton et al., 2016; Ädel et al. 2022), not to mention in public perceptions of risk.However, risk may also, albeit atypically, be seen as something positive and energizing, as in the context of financial markets (cf. e.g. Giddens, 1999) or in gambling. These types of voluntary risk taking have been approached through concepts such as ‘action’ (Goffman, 1967) and ‘edgework’ (e.g. Lyng, 2014).In this study, we explore both negative and positive aspects of risk in the context of adventure/extreme tourism. Our focus is specifically on how risk is discursively constructed on adventure tourism websites for Sápmi (referred to as “[arctic] Lapland”), centring on destinations in Sweden (Kiruna), Finland (Rovaniemi) and Norway (Tromsø). Our primary material from the booking platform Adrenaline Hunter amounts to 12,000 words. In the material, it is precisely the balance between negative and positive aspects of risk that is foregrounded (cf. e.g. Imboden, 2012), but in a scalar sense, ranging from ‘soft’ to ‘hard’ types, with a negotiable awareness of how relative what counts as ‘extreme’ may be. We find that “extreme tourism” is a highly relative concept, for example marketing an everyday activity (like walking on ice) as an “extreme” experience for an audience not too familiar with snow and ice.When looking at risk in a tourism context, the issue of sustainability inevitably arises. In tourism discourse, sustainability may be framed through negative risk but also through positive risk from the point of view of the tourist (foregrounding benefits of enjoyment and “butterflies”). We investigate the balance between something that needs to be managed but simultaneously helps construct (a feeling of) “adventure” in relation to different kinds of responsibility – individual-moral, formal-juridical, and culture-collective.
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