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. Anengaging and timely work,
this book will be of great interest to scholars of Geography,
Anthropology, and Arctic Tourism.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781137587367
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok