Leaving nothing but ripples on the water: performing ecotourism natures

Waitt, Gordon R; Cook, Lauren M.

doi:10.1080/14649360701529782

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“…Extending these concerns, Obrador-Pons (2003) suggests that tourism be perceived as a 'practical and embodied way through which we are involved in the world', which he parallels with the Heideggerian concept of dwelling in places as a way of knowing and being (for an excellent overview of similar ideas see Cloke & Jones, 2001). Echoing Lewis' (2000) concerns, Waitt and Cook (2007) imply that the tourists themselves may be socially conditioned towards a largely ocular sensibility and may struggle to embrace the embodied possibilities of encounters with nature.…”

Section: Ecotourism Ecosophy and Embodied Tourist Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Ecosophy and tourism: Rethinking a mountain resort

Varley¹,

Medway²

2011

Tourism Management

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Section: Ecotourism Ecosophy and Embodied Tourist Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Ecosophy and tourism: Rethinking a mountain resort

Varley¹,

Medway²

2011

Tourism Management

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“…By contrast, others argue that recreational and tourist experiences produce only limited changes in environmental awareness specific to the environments where those experiences take place (Haluza-DeLay 2001;Waitt and Cook 2007), or that recreation industries may embrace a narrow version of "strategic environmentalism" as a way to improve their public image (Millington and Wilson 2013). Unlike either of these positions, our results are consistent with an intermediate approach, which asserts that nature-oriented tourism exists along a continuum of more or less socially and ecologically sustainable practices (Gould 1999;Bulbeck 2005;Neves 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Waitt and Cook's (2007) research on kayaking tourism and environmental awareness in Thailand finds that using outdoor recreation to cultivate environmental values produces only minor shifts in environmental awareness. These shifts are focused on the local environment and do not generally translate into lasting shifts in environmental awareness.…”

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Is Nature-Oriented Tourism a Pro-Environmental Practice?: Examining Tourism–Environmentalism Alignments Through Discourse Networks and Intersectoral Relationships

Stoddart

Nezhadhossein

2016

The Sociological Quarterly

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A key tenet of ecotourism is that interacting with nature through tourism cultivates environmental awareness and responsibility. We examine this assumption by analyzing discourse networks and organizational networks that connect tourism and environmentalism in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Using a combination of interviews, field observation, and web-based data, we ask: Is there an alignment of tourism and environmental discourse regarding human interaction with and use of coastal environments? Are there meaningful organizational ties between tourism and environmental organizations? We conclude that there is little indication that nature-oriented tourism is working to produce substantial changes to our broader political ecology.

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“…With that mindset, geographers have entered a new dimension of knowledge-making, one where comprehension of lived experience, notions of agency, politics and participation, as well as processes and performances of knowledge production, become increasingly relevant for how we come to understand various concepts from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical considerations (cf. Nelson, 1999;Nash, 2000;Dewsbury, 2000;Gregson, Rose, 2000;Houston, Pulido, 2002;Szerszynski et al, 2003;Pearson, 2006;Christie et al, 2006;Waitt, Cook, 2007;Kay, 2012).…”

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Performing rurality. But who?

Dymitrow

Brauer

2017

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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Abstract. Reflective inquiries to better understand 'the rural' have tried to embed rural research within the notion of performativity. Performativity assumes that the capacity of language is not simply to communicate but also to consummate action, whereupon citational uses of concepts produce a series of material effects. Of late, this philosophical shift has also implicated geographers as active agents in producing, reproducing and performing rurality. This paper provides a critical evaluation of what this new insistence really means for the production of geographical knowledge. Using framework analysis as a method, the paper scrutinizes several reportedly influential papers on the topic of rural performativity. Our findings reveal that, while indeed reflexive on issues of academic integrity, methodology and ethics, performances of rurality are continuedly placed 'out there' amongst 'rural people' , i.e. in a priori defined and often stereotypically understood contexts, either by way of 'spatial delimitation' or 'activity delimitation' . Effectively, such testimonies provide a truncated state of fidelity, where performance-oriented reflexivity is seconded by contradictory empirics of uneven value and with few commonalities. We conclude that by turning towards performativity as an allegedly more helpful way of obtaining rural coherence, we at the same time overlook our own role in keeping 'rural theory' alive.

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Leaving nothing but ripples on the water: performing ecotourism natures

Cited by 50 publications

References 34 publications

Ecosophy and tourism: Rethinking a mountain resort

Ecosophy and tourism: Rethinking a mountain resort

Is Nature-Oriented Tourism a Pro-Environmental Practice?: Examining Tourism–Environmentalism Alignments Through Discourse Networks and Intersectoral Relationships

Performing rurality. But who?

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