Alarming environmental shifts and disasters have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are ...distributed unequally, affecting some of the already most fragile communities most intensely, thus contributing to rising global inequality. The pairing of environmental crises and a sense of inadequacy facing hitherto celebrated models of citizenry informs a current spirit of the times. The contributors to this volume place ethnographic or world cultures museums at the centre of these debates - these museums have been embroiled in longstanding debates about their histories, collections, and practices in relation to the colonial past.
This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. ...Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds.
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates ...the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions. This volume fills a unique space by bringing together the issues of environment, language and cultural integrity in Latin American historical and cultural spheres. It explores the reciprocal and necessary relations between language/culture and environment; how they can lead to sustainable practices; how environmental knowledge and sustainable practices toward the environment are reflected in local languages, local sources and local socio-cultural practices. The book combines interdisciplinary methods and initiates a dialogue among scientifically trained scholars and local communities to compare their perspectives on well-being in remote and recent historical periods and it will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including sociolinguistics, (ethno)history, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies and cultural anthropology, environmental studies and Indigenous/minority studies.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to reflect how the pandemic experience has shaped Italian society, under some key aspects. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The pandemic is changing much ...of our lives: relationships, politics, economics, religious attitudes, European and global scenarios. The essay tries to study the most important dynamics in this epochal change. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The argumentation starts from anthropological and ethics aspects to end with social and political elements of pandemic time. RESEARCH RESULTS: The essay try to present a multidisciplinary approach to understand the pandemia. The most important result is to “read” the pandemia as a multifaced phenomena. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: It’s important to encourage studies where the complexity of our world is interpreted by researchers fo different disciplines. In this particular historical moment, probably, we should do the same lecture about the many wars and conflicts around the world.
What is food tourism? Ellis, Ashleigh; Park, Eerang; Kim, Sangkyun ...
Tourism management (1982),
10/2018, Volume:
68
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Food tourism or food and tourism has emerged as a major theme for recent tourism research. This paper critically reviews and evaluates this growing subject area of tourism research thus identifies ...the core concepts associated with food tourism as major research themes, perspectives, and disciplinary approaches. Using the process of cognitive mapping this paper discovers that the literature on food tourism is dominated by five themes: motivation, culture, authenticity, management and marketing, and destination orientation. The authors conceptualise food tourism research from a cultural anthropology perspective, given that much of the literature on food tourism defines cuisine as place and is used in many forms and interactions with tourists.
•Terms used in food tourism research are not consistent, but there is a preference for terms with a consumer focus.•A supply-demand paradigm has led the growth of food tourism research.•Motivation, culture, authenticity, management, marketing and destination orientation are most common research themes.•Food tourism is about cultural anthropology.•Food tourism management is the management of food cultural resources.
