Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty

Hunt, Carter A.; Barragán‐Paladines, María José; Izurieta, Juan Carlos; L, Andrés Ordóñez

doi:10.1080/09669582.2022.2108431

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“…The creation of the Charles Darwin Foundation and its research station in 1959 facilitated global interest in Galápagos ecotourism, and by 2019, the archipelago was visited by almost half a million tourists annually. The local economy has become dependent on the tourism industry, which also serves an important role in generating income for the national budget (Brewington 2013; Hoyman and McCall 2013; Hunt et al 2023; Mathis and Rose 2016).…”

Section: Legacy and Servicesmentioning

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When the Archaeologists Leave

Astudillo,

Becerra,

Delgado

et al. 2023

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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The Hacienda El Progreso functioned as an important Ecuadorian agro-industrial enterprise in the late nineteenth century. Operating out of San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos archipelago, the plantation exported refined sugar, coffee, cattle products, and other goods to national and international markets. From its beginnings in the 1860s, the plantation established the first permanent human settlement on the island, and long after its demise in the 1930s, it continues to exert an important influence in local culture. Contemporary communities of San Cristóbal are shaping their identities based on the historical importance of the hacienda. The summer of 2018 was our last field season. From its start, the Historical Ecology of the Galápagos Islands project involved close participation with communal authorities and town leaders to investigate the island's human past. In this article, we discuss legacy and services of our project in the contemporary setting of Galápagos. We examine the relevance and contributions of our project to education, heritage policies, and the local economy. We discuss lessons learned from interactions and collaborations between archaeologists and the local community, and we evaluate the consequences of implementing an archaeological project on a remote environmental sanctuary where interest in human history can collide with the agendas of nature conservation and a lucrative ecotourism industry.

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Section: Legacy and Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

When the Archaeologists Leave

Astudillo,

Becerra,

Delgado

et al. 2023

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Intersectional Emancipation for Biocultural Conservation: An Exploratory Neolocalism Framework

Cavaliere,

Branstrator,

Cheer

2024

Journal of Travel Research

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Ketchikan, Alaska, is a coastal gateway community that has experienced rapid changes, unearthing visceral realizations of biocultural vulnerabilities and bioregional interdependencies. Bordering the Tongass National Forest, the community embodies and endures complicated historicized impacts from neoliberalism, reproduced today by mass cruise tourism. During the COVID-19 global lockdown, remote field work was conducted employing qualitative, in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The rich data illuminated embodied resident perceptions of community changes and bioregional sensoryscapes. Social-ecological reproduction theory is extended by conceptualizing complex interrelationships involving intersectional emancipation, neolocalism, and biocultural conservation. Emerging from the findings, the authors present an exploratory neolocalism framework including the following seven-indicators: resilient governance, diverse economies, biocultural conservation, intersectional engagement, biocultural identity, emancipatory zoning, and decomposition. This framework is intended to support regenerative tourism planning that resists oppression from corporate domination through neolocal resilience. This research articulates issues of community agency, social-ecological reproduction, and intersectional emancipation for biocultural conservation.

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Setting Up Roots: Opportunities for Biocultural Restoration in Recently Inhabited Settings

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Biocultural approaches to restoration, which recognize the unique ways of understanding of socioecological challenges by Indigenous and local communities, have gained traction in recent decades. Yet, less attention has focused on biocultural opportunities where there is no Indigenous population or traditional knowledge to draw upon. This ethnographic study inductively assesses data gathered from interviews with farm owners on Isabela Island in the Galápagos Islands, where human presence is a function of recent migration. These interviews, corroborated with archival information and participant observation, center on farmer attitudes regarding restoration of Scalesia cordata, a highly endangered plant species, endemic to Isabela. The resulting analysis identified four themes of overlap with the biocultural restoration literature: cultural keystone species, sense of place, informational pathways, and recognition of socio-ecological feedback loops. Findings indicate that Scalesia remains a valued cultural keystone species providing tangible and intangible benefits to local residents, and its survival serves as a metaphor for farmers’ own wellbeing. Thus, even locations where place-based knowledge by a native population is not evident, critical biocultural elements exist that can be integrated into restoration efforts. Farmers also exhibited clear connections between restoration and tourism in Galápagos, paving the way for the application of biocultural theory to the analysis of tourism-supported restoration efforts elsewhere.

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Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty

Cited by 3 publications

References 65 publications

When the Archaeologists Leave

When the Archaeologists Leave

Intersectional Emancipation for Biocultural Conservation: An Exploratory Neolocalism Framework

Setting Up Roots: Opportunities for Biocultural Restoration in Recently Inhabited Settings

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