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- Berg, Lawrence D., et al.
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Producing anxiety in the neoliberal university
- 2016
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Ingår i: The Canadian Geographer. - : Wiley. - 1541-0064. ; 60:2, s. 168-180
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the neoliberal production of anxiety in academic faculty members in universities in Northern Europe. The paper focuses on neoliberalization as it is instantiated through audit and ranking systems designed to produce academia as a space of economic efficiency and intensifying competition. We suggest that powerful forms of competition and ranking of academic performance have been developed in Northern Europe. These systems are differentiated and differentiating, and they serve to both index and facilitate the neoliberalization of the academy. Moreover, these audit and ranking systems produce an ongoing sense of anxiety among academic workers. We argue that neoliberalism in the academy is part of a wider system of anxiety production arising as part of the so-called “soft governance” of everything, including life itself, in contemporary late liberalism.
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- Gren, Martin, 1959-, et al.
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The Anthropocene and tourism destinations
- 2016
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Ingår i: Tourism and the Anthropocene. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the : Routledge. - 9781138814578 - 9781315747361 ; , s. 189-199
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concept of the Anthropocene includes the spontaneous minima moralia of the current age. It implies concern regarding the cohabitation of the citizens of the Earth in human and non-human form. It calls upon us to cooperate in the network of simple and higher-level life circles, in which the actors of today’s world generate their being in the modes of co-immunity.
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- Gren, Martin, et al.
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Tourism and the Anthropocene
- 2014
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-2250 .- 1502-2269. ; 14:1, s. 6-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract The Anthropocene is a proposed term for a new phase in the history of both humanity and the Earth - a geological epoch in which their respective forces intertwine on a planetary scale. As a concept, the Anthropocene has recently gained momentum also in the humanities and the social sciences, but not yet in Tourism Studies. The aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of the Anthropocene to Tourism Studies and to explore and outline scientific, political, and ethical challenges. In the context of the Anthropocene, tourism becomes a geophysical force censoriously interrelated with the capacity of the Earth to sustain the human species.
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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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- Gren, Martin, 1959, et al.
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Tourism theory and the earth
- 2012
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Ingår i: Annals of Tourism Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0160-7383 .- 1873-7722. ; 39:1, s. 155-170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Given that tourism is an " earthly business" , why is it that the Earth rarely explicitly appears in tourism studies and tourism theory? In an attempt to grapple with this paradox, this paper seeks to contribute to a conceptual re-cognition of the Earth in tourism theory by probing some theoretical obstacles and possibilities. The paper demonstrates how the Earth has been conceptually erased in tourism theory by a privileging of the mapping of tourism and tourists onto the reference plane of the social. As an alternative the paper seeks to provide a geo-philosophically informed conceptualisation of the Earth as a primary plane of reference of which tourism is a particular form of de/re-territorialisation. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
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- Huijbens, Edward H., et al.
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The socio-spatial articulations of tourism studies in nordic geography
- 2022
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Ingår i: Socio-spatial theory in nordic geography. - Cham : Springer. - 9783031042331 - 9783031042362 - 9783031042348 ; , s. 169-190
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter will focus on geographical contributions to tourism studies in Nordic scholarship. The chapter provides a thematised overview of the ways in which tourism dynamics and developments have been understood and researched by Nordic geographers. The themes are drawn from a bibliometric analysis and are arranged around the key geographical concepts of place, space and time. As such the chapter is not aspiring to provide a comprehensive listing of, or detailing all Nordic geographers who have addressed issues of tourism, nor exhaustively cover all topics, but to gauge the socio-spatial articulations of tourism studies in Nordic geography. Part one will look at how places are articulated as sites of tourism experiences, social relations and tourism industry dynamics in Nordic geography. Part two will look at how spatial flows and global ideas constitutive of tourism destinations are understood. Part three will focus on how Nordic tourism geography scholarship has developed through and on what looks to be promising future oriented studies therein. As such the chapter will contribute to the theorisations of geography and the development of socio-spatial theories within Nordic geography from a tourism studies perspective.
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- Huijbens, Edward H., et al.
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They say “our house is on fire” – on the climate emergency and (new) Earth politics
- 2021
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Ingår i: Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene. - London : Routledge. - 9780367653095 - 9781003128854 - 9780367653125 ; , s. 15-33
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Given the empirical scope and gravity of the ongoing planetary climate and ecological mutation we can safely say that “our house is on fire”. The chapter problematizes the conceptualization of the Earth and engages “the Critical Zone” as an earthly entity for composing our common planetary house in actionable terms. The chapter points towards a politics of earthly habitation, a (new) Earth politics that does not depart from Nature and Society, nor separates the social from the natural, and where the earthly territorialities of the local is folded with the territory of planetary climate conditions. The emerging (new) Earth politics highlight the “planetary vital signs” which need to be incorporated into climate politics in and of the Critical Zone.
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- Huijbens, Edward H., et al.
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Tourism and the Anthropocene : an urgent and emerging encounter
- 2016
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Ingår i: Tourism and the Anthropocene. - : Routledge. - 9781138814578 - 9781315747361 ; , s. 1-14
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An interest in the concept of the Anthropocene has over the last years gained considerable momentum across the sciences and the humanities, but its trajectory in the tourism literature has so far been short and limited. The first attempt to engage with the Anthropocene in the context of tourism was made recently in an article by the editors of this volume (Gren and Huijbens, 2014), developed from a previous one dealing with the conceptualization of the Earth in relation to tourism (Gren and Huijbens, 2012). The aim of this book, the first of its kind, is to explore and map issues and challenges that the Anthropocene may pose for tourism studies, and how it might potentially reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings in tourism research. In this introduction we will first introduce the concept of the Anthropocene, and then provide three broad tentative themes as a brief primer for tourism’s encounter with the Anthropocene. At the end we will provide an outline of the book.
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- Mossberg, Lena, et al.
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Storytelling and destination development
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tourism and Hospitality. ; , s. 146-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traditional packaging models, including transportation, accommodation, dining, andactivities are fundamental but tend to overlook the fact that today’s offerings or valuepropositions need to create “a total experience” for the customer. Successful organizationsthus go beyond packaging and instead co-produce attractive offerings to the tourists acrossindustries. Studies have shown that a real and fictive story about the destination can givethe destination a unique competitive advantage and the tourist a more meaningfulexperience. Stories can act as a framework as they communicate the core values in anunderstandable and memorable way. Through the story, the destination or organization cancreate meaning in relation to what they like to communicate. The story becomes a verbaland visual metaphor which shows the total offering. A good story needs to have an arena,characters, and a structure. Lately a lot of focus is put on the so called literary and filminduced tourism. Another phenomenon is to develop concepts around traditions like textile,cheese, meals, and furniture when actors are marketing the destination together. A keysuccess factor in all stories is an unbroken story line. To market a tourism destination on acommon story implies close contact between all stakeholders, friction free communication,and the development of a common story, which later on can be conceptualized and told.The objective of this paper is to discuss the potential of storytelling as a tool for destinationdevelopment by exploring five different storytelling cases, one in each Nordic country. Inparticular the study focuses on how storytelling is practiced, how it is organized and if andhow a specific communication platform can improve storytelling practice in the Nordiccountries and function as a means of closer stakeholder cooperation and improved touristexperiences.The data collection includes a combination of different methods: interviews with the mainstakeholders related to all five cases, collection of existing documents related to the fivecases, observation of stakeholder meetings, and participant observation of storytelling events.The project is ongoing but so far we have interviewed key stakeholders in each destinationcase and gained their insights into how to develop and communicate stories. The next step isto experiment with the common communication platform in each of the destinations in theNordic countries.
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- Mossberg, Lena, et al.
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Storytelling and destination development
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The objective of this study is to scrutinize the possibilities and drawbacks of using storytelling as a means of developing and marketing Nordic tourism destinations. On the basis of five selected Nordic cases, the study sheds light both on the ways in which storytelling is practiced and how stakeholder cooperation unfolds and seeks to determine the prerequisites for using storytelling as part of a destination development strategy. Drawing on the literature on storytelling as well as theory on inter-organisational relations, the study develops a theoretical model which centres on four closely interrelated elements: types of stakeholders involved; stages of the storytelling process; outcome of the storytelling process; and destination development. The theoretical model serves as a central tool for the cases presented to illustrate the issues at stake. The five cases consist of rich sets of data: interviews with main stakeholders; collection of industry documents, marketing material and media coverage; observation of stakeholder meetings; and participant observation of storytelling events. The findings point to the importance of a location-based story to conceptualize, substantiate, and commercialize a destination. Findings suggest that some cases are characterized by individual stories of many qualities in terms of dramaturgical principles and customer involvement, however, an overall story framework is non-existent which makes the storytelling initiative poorly suited as a means of destination development. In other cases, a more holistic, coordinated story can be identified that ties the individual stories together and on this basis a common identity for the destination seems to materialize. The nature of stakeholder relations helps explain why some storytelling practices have destination development potential whereas others have not. Dedicated leadership, multi-actor involvement and two-way communication appear to be prerequisites for the destination development potential of storytelling activities.
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Tourism and the Anthropocene
- 2016
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism, and it offers significant insights into how it might reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings in tourism research. Furthermore, through the lens of the Anthropocene this book also spurs thinking of the role of tourism in relation to sustainable development, planetary boundaries, ethics (and what is framed as geo-ethics) and refocused tourism theory to make sense of tourism’s earthly entanglements and thinking tourism beyond Nature-Society. The multidisciplinary nature of the material will appeal to a broad academic audience, such as those working in tourism, geography, anthropology and sociology.
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