Spatiality of power surrounding "the Nenets'" involvement in local tourism industry development
The importance of power structure analysis in tourism studies is appreciated by academic scholars based on the fact that the tourism industry is a capitalist activity concerned with wealth production, accumulation and distribution. This is the power structure that serves to reproduce and condition d...
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ftsheffhu:oai:shura.shu.ac.uk:15207 2023-06-11T04:14:05+02:00 Spatiality of power surrounding "the Nenets'" involvement in local tourism industry development Gorbuntsova, Tatiana 2016-12 application/pdf https://shura.shu.ac.uk/15207/1/TatianaGorbuntsova.pdf https://shura.shu.ac.uk/15207/8/10697004.pdf en eng http://shura.shu.ac.uk/15207/ https://shura.shu.ac.uk/15207/1/TatianaGorbuntsova.pdf https://shura.shu.ac.uk/15207/8/10697004.pdf GORBUNTSOVA, Tatiana (2016). Spatiality of power surrounding "the Nenets'" involvement in local tourism industry development. Doctoral, Sheffield Hallam University. arr Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2016 ftsheffhu 2023-05-04T23:07:55Z The importance of power structure analysis in tourism studies is appreciated by academic scholars based on the fact that the tourism industry is a capitalist activity concerned with wealth production, accumulation and distribution. This is the power structure that serves to reproduce and condition different modes of tourism industry development and, as a consequence, diverse outcomes for the local economy in general and its players specifically. However, under the influence of Karl Marx, theorists using critical approaches to research power have tended to focus on issues around the equality of power relationships between actors or stakeholders. In doing so, it may be argued that what is missing are the diverse geographies of power and, in particular, the inherently spatial nature of power, including the involvement of social relations in both space and power (Lefebvre, 1976; 1991). In order to address this, the present study focuses on the exploration of the spatiality of power that surrounds tourism industry development. A conceptual framework, based on the application of Lefebvre’s (1991) concepts supplemented by Gaventa’s (2004) ‘power cube’, placed in the broader context of Marx’ political economy and ‘Historical Materialism’, has been developed. The case study locality is in a country with a non-colonial past, being in transition from socialism to capitalism, with the tourism industry at an early stage of its development. Of core interest to the study is the spatiality of power which frames local tourism industry development, the relationships between the indigenous reindeer herders, “the Nenets”, local non-indigenous tour operators, indigenous travel agencies and the government in Yamal in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO) of the Russian Federation. Based on the aim to access the respondents’ subjective comprehension and evaluation of spatiality of power, the research is positioned in neo-empiricism and uses qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. The major theoretical findings confirm ... Thesis nenets Nenets Autonomous Okrug SHURA (Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive) |
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The importance of power structure analysis in tourism studies is appreciated by academic scholars based on the fact that the tourism industry is a capitalist activity concerned with wealth production, accumulation and distribution. This is the power structure that serves to reproduce and condition different modes of tourism industry development and, as a consequence, diverse outcomes for the local economy in general and its players specifically. However, under the influence of Karl Marx, theorists using critical approaches to research power have tended to focus on issues around the equality of power relationships between actors or stakeholders. In doing so, it may be argued that what is missing are the diverse geographies of power and, in particular, the inherently spatial nature of power, including the involvement of social relations in both space and power (Lefebvre, 1976; 1991). In order to address this, the present study focuses on the exploration of the spatiality of power that surrounds tourism industry development. A conceptual framework, based on the application of Lefebvre’s (1991) concepts supplemented by Gaventa’s (2004) ‘power cube’, placed in the broader context of Marx’ political economy and ‘Historical Materialism’, has been developed. The case study locality is in a country with a non-colonial past, being in transition from socialism to capitalism, with the tourism industry at an early stage of its development. Of core interest to the study is the spatiality of power which frames local tourism industry development, the relationships between the indigenous reindeer herders, “the Nenets”, local non-indigenous tour operators, indigenous travel agencies and the government in Yamal in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO) of the Russian Federation. Based on the aim to access the respondents’ subjective comprehension and evaluation of spatiality of power, the research is positioned in neo-empiricism and uses qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. The major theoretical findings confirm ... |
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