Making place at the end of the world : an ethnography of tourism and urban development in Ushuaia, Argentina’s Antarctic Gateway City.

• Main Author: Herbert, Andrea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury. LSAPS, Anthropology 2014
• Subjects: Ushuaia; Argentina; Antarctica; Antarctic gateway; Antarctic tourism; placemaking; sense of place; informal settlements; geopolitics; urban ethnography.; Antarctic; Argentine; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/4928; https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/9421

This thesis is concerned with the lived experience of placemaking in Argentina’s Antarctic gateway port Ushuaia. Based on 12 months ethnographic fieldwork, it explores the relations between tourism, urban development, and socio-economic difference. As such, it investigates how agents from across the...