Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North
Simone Abram (Ed.)
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Description for Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North
Hardback. Editor(s): Abram, Simone; Lund, Katrin Anna. Num Pages: 121 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1MTN; KNSG; RGC; RNA; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
309g
Number of Pages
121
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137587350
SKU
V9781137587350
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Simone Abram (Ed.)
Simone Abram is Reader at the International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism and Hospitality, and is also Reader in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. Katrin Anna Lund is Professor of Anthropology in the department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Iceland. She has published on topics such as landscape, tourism, walking, the senses ... Read more
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