Multispecies hospitality
The ongoing ecological crisis calls for new mindsets, concepts, theoretical repertoires, and metaphors that can help us shape the ways in which realities are perceived and handled. Against this backdrop, this chapter discusses the importance of multispecies approaches in the research agenda for Arct...
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| Language: | English |
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Edward Elgar
2024
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| Online Access: | https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/980c314f-70d1-4816-af8f-cb20545fb4cc https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035319992.00013 |
| Summary: | The ongoing ecological crisis calls for new mindsets, concepts, theoretical repertoires, and metaphors that can help us shape the ways in which realities are perceived and handled. Against this backdrop, this chapter discusses the importance of multispecies approaches in the research agenda for Arctic tourism. The chapter stands on the shoulders of posthumanist Arctic tourism research that seeks to engage with more-than-human relations and places in the north. The notion of multispecies hospitality is used here to invite reflection on how more-than-human hosts and guests welcome and take care of each other in tourism settings. The chapter invites the reader to an overnight visit to a neighboring forest to discuss how metaphors such as hospitality, hosts, guests, and home might shape relations and research questions in Arctic tourism. The ongoing ecological crisis calls for new mindsets, concepts, theoretical repertoires, and metaphors that can help us shape the ways in which realities are perceived and handled. Against this backdrop, this chapter discusses the importance of multispecies approaches in the research agenda for Arctic tourism. The chapter stands on the shoulders of posthumanist Arctic tourism research that seeks to engage with more-than-human relations and places in the north. The notion of multispecies hospitality is used here to invite reflection on how more-than-human hosts and guests welcome and take care of each other in tourism settings. The chapter invites the reader to an overnight visit to a neighbouring forest to discuss how metaphors such as hospitality, hosts, guests, and home might shape relations and research questions in Arctic tourism. |
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