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Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors,
this thought-provoking book reimagines established narratives of
the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be
taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and
situated knowledge. Envisaging a narrative of change that renders
visible the complex transformations taking place across the globe,
this book outlines new and radical ways to address the current
environmental crisis in a more sustainable and context-specific
manner. It presents empirical studies from various contexts,
highlighting the potentiality of non-Western knowledge, concepts
and categories as well as recognising the entanglement of humans
with other beings and ecosystems. In particular, it offers critical
engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging
the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in
socio-political and academic discussions. This book will be crucial
reading for researchers and post-graduate students working in
fields from human geography and tourism studies to law, public
policy and administration, philosophy, politics and organisation
studies who are dealing with intersecting issues of environment,
sustainability, indigenous rights, space and ethics. It will also
be helpful for policy makers and research consultants in leveraging
localised solutions to the current ecological crisis.
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. It counters 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.  Â
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. It counters 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.  Â
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