KOTAŠKOVÁ, Eva. A tour into untouched land : Enacting wilderness through relational engagements. Ethnography. London: SAGE Publications, 2024, p. 1-24. ISSN 1466-1381. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14661381241260879.
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Original name A tour into untouched land : Enacting wilderness through relational engagements
Authors KOTAŠKOVÁ, Eva.
Edition Ethnography, London, SAGE Publications, 2024, 1466-1381.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50404 Antropology, ethnology
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 1.200 in 2022
Organization unit Faculty of Social Studies
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14661381241260879
Keywords in English engagement; environment; more-than-human relations; wilderness; tourism; Svalbard
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Eva Kotašková, Ph.D., učo 332998. Changed: 18/6/2024 12:53.
Abstract
Drawing upon an ethnographic study of guided tours in Svalbard, in this article I explore how is the wilderness enacted as a situational and contextual outcome of more-then-human relations, emerging from engagements with the environment. As the engagements during the guided tours contest the often expected ‘purity’ of wilderness, I further investigate in detail when and how nature-culture dichotomy is both contested and re-produced in the enactment of wilderness. I argue that the nature-culture dichotomy constituting wilderness on Svalbard shifts from the idea of human-less nature to life in harmony with nature in which some human traces are present. This dichotomy then emerges from more-than-human relations. Further, I show that the character of wilderness is also emerging from different situations and contexts, where temporality, knowledge and dependency on self or others influence the engagements and more-than-human relations.
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