From mining tool to tourist attraction : Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society
In the context of socio-economic transformation of Svalbard, from a place dominated by the coal mining industry to a nature-based tourism destination, the article focuses on how this transformation is co-created with material objects of coal mining remnants. These seemingly marginal, insignificant o...
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ftmasarykis:oai:is.muni.cz:2219717 2023-10-25T01:43:06+02:00 From mining tool to tourist attraction : Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society Kotašková Eva 2022 9 https://is.muni.cz/publication/2219717 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247422000092 eng eng Cambridge University Press https://is.muni.cz/publication/2219717 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Polar Record Svalbard Socio-material relations Nature-based tourism Cultural heritage Transformation info:eu-repo/semantics/article J 2022 ftmasarykis https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247422000092 2023-09-28T15:32:22Z In the context of socio-economic transformation of Svalbard, from a place dominated by the coal mining industry to a nature-based tourism destination, the article focuses on how this transformation is co-created with material objects of coal mining remnants. These seemingly marginal, insignificant or even out-of-place remnants of coal mining activity (such as rusty barrels or collapsing infrastructure) have become, by law, a protected part of the Svalbard environment, a cultural heritage. Based on the relational (more-than-human) ethnography of guided tours, the analysis shows that this transformation is co-creating the characteristics of both the past of coal mining and the present notion of wilderness. It demonstrates the process not only as a transformation of interpretations, knowledge and values but also as a transformation of relations with non-human components of the environment. Rather contextual than linear shifts in a biography of the objects, together with the temporality of the objects and their porous character, play a significant role in the Svalbard’s transformation into a nature-based tourism destination. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Svalbard Masaryk University: Open Services of Information System Svalbard Polar Record 58 |
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In the context of socio-economic transformation of Svalbard, from a place dominated by the coal mining industry to a nature-based tourism destination, the article focuses on how this transformation is co-created with material objects of coal mining remnants. These seemingly marginal, insignificant or even out-of-place remnants of coal mining activity (such as rusty barrels or collapsing infrastructure) have become, by law, a protected part of the Svalbard environment, a cultural heritage. Based on the relational (more-than-human) ethnography of guided tours, the analysis shows that this transformation is co-creating the characteristics of both the past of coal mining and the present notion of wilderness. It demonstrates the process not only as a transformation of interpretations, knowledge and values but also as a transformation of relations with non-human components of the environment. Rather contextual than linear shifts in a biography of the objects, together with the temporality of the objects and their porous character, play a significant role in the Svalbard’s transformation into a nature-based tourism destination. |
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From mining tool to tourist attraction : Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society |
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From mining tool to tourist attraction : Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society |
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