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Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2022

Daniela Chimirri Open the ORCID record for Daniela Chimirri [Opens in a new window]  and
Carina Ren
Daniela Chimirri
Affiliation:
Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University
Carina Ren*
Affiliation:
Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University
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Author for correspondence: Carina Ren, Email: ren@ikl.aau.dk
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Abstract

In this article, we explore tourism development as an ongoing becoming-with and in the world. We draw on Haraway’s concept of worlding to describe the coming together of tourism not as a solitary or industry-related endeavour, but as entangled. We introduce the analytical concepts of frictions, companions and string figures to exemplify and discuss what this looks like when stepping closer to the tinkering with tourism. The article illustrates and discusses ways to re-conceptualise tourism development not as a simple solution to local problem, but as world-making in tension. We abstain from identifying “good” tourism and claims of how to pursue ways to “fix” tourism, instead tending to how tourism actors imagine and tinker with and around tourism towards more livable futures in a turbulent terrain.

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GreenlandTourismWorlding

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Polar Record , Volume 58 , 2022 , e33
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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