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Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms
associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its
relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an
approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the ongoing
communication that is inherent in any perception, recognising the
often-ignored mutuality of encounters between human and non-human
actors. With contributions drawn from a variety of disciplines,
including anthropology, geography, archaeology, philosophy,
literature and the visual arts, this book explores the affects and
emotions engendered in the conversations between landscape and
humans. Offering scope for an original and coherent approach to the
study of landscape, this book will appeal to scholars and
researchers across a range of social sciences and humanities.
Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms
associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its
relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an
approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the ongoing
communication that is inherent in any perception, recognising the
often-ignored mutuality of encounters between human and non-human
actors. With contributions drawn from a variety of disciplines,
including anthropology, geography, archaeology, philosophy,
literature and the visual arts, this book explores the affects and
emotions engendered in the conversations between landscape and
humans. Offering scope for an original and coherent approach to the
study of landscape, this book will appeal to scholars and
researchers across a range of social sciences and humanities.
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. An engaging and timely work, this book will be
of great interest to scholars of Geography, Anthropology, and
Arctic Tourism.
Literary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet
tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and
stories. Providing a wide-ranging cornucopia of literary tourism
topics, this book fully explores the interconnections between the
written word and travel. It includes tourism stories using
guidebooks, films, television and electronic media, and recognises
that stories, texts and narratives, even if they cannot be
classified as traditional travel writing, can become journeys in
themselves and take us on imaginary voyages. Furthermore, the book:
- Provides a grounding in the theoretical perspectives on
literature and the tourist experience; - Explores practical
applications of literary tourism, such as destination promotion and
creation, responsible tourism and learning benefits; - Uses global
case studies to study literary tourism in action. Appealing to a
wide audience of different disciplines, it encompasses subjects
such as business literary writing, historical journeys and the
poetry of Dylan Thomas. The use of these different perspectives
demonstrates how heavily and widely literature influences travel,
tourists and tourism, making it an important read for researchers
and students of tourism, social science and literature.
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