Following Pollen Mobilities
Abstract Inspired by more-than-human thinking and ‘follow-the-thing’ approaches in anthropology, this chapter discusses human–pollen relations in the context of climate change and the designed infrastructures of tourism. Through a creative methodical approach, we explore the different ways pollen em...
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_8 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_8 |
| Summary: | Abstract Inspired by more-than-human thinking and ‘follow-the-thing’ approaches in anthropology, this chapter discusses human–pollen relations in the context of climate change and the designed infrastructures of tourism. Through a creative methodical approach, we explore the different ways pollen emerges as an object of scrutiny and politicisation. Through three short cases (‘ summer thunderstorms ,’ the ‘ aircraft cabin ,’ and the ‘ hotel room ’), we tease out the relations between nature and culture as manifested through pollen controversies. These more-than-human accounts take the reader through tales that cut across traditional binaries within tourism research, such as local–global and nature–culture, to illustrate how proximities are assembled through socio-material, technological, and political contexts and practices. We outline a dynamic and multi-sited way of thinking about proximities and suggest that the processes and ambitions of ‘staying proximate’ are also a question of understanding how the built environments of tourism condition and shape proximities. |
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