Tourism worlding:Collective becoming in East Greenland

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Chimirri, Daniela, Ren, Carina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic tourism; Collective becoming; East Greenland; Tourism worlding; Tourism; Worlding; Greenland; Polar Record
• Online Access: https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/e16ca70f-d4f7-42b9-a3cd-4a38bd5ed884; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247421000681; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139660603&partnerID=8YFLogxK

In this article, we explore tourism development as an ongoing becoming-with and in the world. We draw on Haraway's concept of worlding to describe the coming together of tourism not as a solitary or industry-related endeavour, but as entangled. We introduce the analytical concepts of frictions, companions and string figures to exemplify and discuss what this looks like when stepping closer to the tinkering with tourism. The article illustrates and discusses ways to re-conceptualise tourism development not as a simple solution to local problem, but as world-making in tension. We abstain from identifying good tourism and claims of how to pursue ways to fix tourism, instead tending to how tourism actors imagine and tinker with and around tourism towards more livable futures in a turbulent terrain.