Tourism Encounters and Controversies

The multiplicity of tourism encounters provide some of the best available occasions to observe the social world and its making(s). Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of development, conservation, policy and destination management. Throughout the book, encounters and controversies are investigated from a poststructuralist and relational approach as complex and emerging, seeing the roles and characteristics of related actors as co-constituted. Inspired by post-actor-network theory and related research, the studies include the social as well as the material, but also multiplicity and ontological politics when examining controversial matters or events.

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson is Associate Professor at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland. His research interests are in the area of tourism policy, cultural economies and innovation. Carina Ren is Associate professor in culture and innovation at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests include tourism encounters, the materiality of tourism and destination and nation branding practices. René van der Duim has a Special Professorship in Tourism and Sustainable Development at Wageningen Uuniversity. His research focuses on the relation between tourism and sustainable development.

Chapter 1 Tourism Encounters, Controversies and Ontologies, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren, René van der Duim; Chapter 2 Shaping Money and Relationships in Touristic Cuba, Valerio Simoni; Chapter 3 Reef Controversies, Senna Middelveld, René van der Duim, Rico Lie; Chapter 4 Entrepreneurship and Controversies of Tourism Development, Anniken Førde; Chapter 5 Mapping the New Nordic Issue-scape, Anders Kristian Munk, Anne-Kristine Bøcher Ellern; Chapter 6 Real Things, Tourist Things and Drawing the Line in the Ocean, Felicity Picken; Chapter 7 Conflicts Forever. The Path Dependencies of Tourism Conflicts; the Case of Anabeb Conservancy, Namibia, Arjaan Pellis, Martijn Duineveld, Lauren Wagner; Chapter 8 The Tourist-Vampire and the Citizen as Ontological Figures, Richard Ek; Chapter 9 Hotel California, Claudio Minca, Chin Ee Ong; Chapter 10 A Fish Called Tourism, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson; Chapter 11 Topological Encounters, Edward H. Huijbens; Chapter 12 Possible Greenland, Carina Ren; Chapter 13 Postscript, Carina Ren, René van der Duim, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson;