Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic (eBook)

lt;p>Arvid Viken is Professor in Tourism, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. His research interests include destination development, indigenous tourism, tourism and community interaction.

Dieter K. Müller is Professor in Social and Economic Geography, Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests focus on issues related to tourism and local and regional development in rural and peripheral areas in northern environments.

Preface

Contributors

Part I: Conceptualizing Arctic Indigeneity and Tourism

1. Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken: Indigenous Tourism in the Arctic

2. Arvid Viken and Dieter K. Müller: Indigeneity and Indigenous Tourism

3. E. Carina H. Keskitalo: Images of the Northern and “Arctic” In Tourism and Regional Literature

4. Britt Kramvig: Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assembling Culture, Capital and Identity

Part II: Arctic Contestations; Resourcification of Indigenous Landscapes

5. Dieter K. Müller and Fredrik Hoppstadius: Sami Tourism At The Crossroad: Globalization As Challenge For Business, Environment And Culture In Swedish Sápmi

6. Yulian Konstantinov: Tourist Hegemonies of Outside Powers: The Case of Salmon-Fishing Safari-Camps in Territories of Traditional Land-Use (Kola Peninsula)

7. Albina Pashkevich: Empowering Whom? Politics and Realities of Indigenous Tourism Development in the Russian Arctic

8. Seija Tuulentie: Destination Development In The Middle Of the Sápmi: Whose Voice Is Heard and How?

9. Karina M. Smed: Culture in Nature - Exploring the Role of ‘Culture’ In the Destination of Ilulissat, Greenland

Part III: Touristification of the Arctic – Indigenous Wrapping

10. John S. Hull, Suzanne De La Barre and Patrick T. Maher: Peripheral Geographies Of Creativity: The Case For Indigenous Tourism And Community Economic Development In The Western Canadian Arctic

11. Vladislava Vladimirova:  “Sport and Folklore”: Festivals as Sites of Indigenous Cultural Revitalization in Russia

12. Gro B. Ween and Åge Riseth: Indigenous Hospitality and Tourism: Past Trajectories and New Beginnings

Part IV: Tourism Negotiating Sami Traditions

13. Kjell Olsen: What Does The Sieidi Do? Tourism as a Part of a Continued Tradition?

14. Trude Fonneland: Indigenous Spirituality and the Staging of Sami Culture in Northern Scandinavia

15. Gaute Svensson and Arvid Viken: Tourism, Nomadism and the Sami Verdde Nexus

Part V: Epilogue

16. Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken: Towards a De-Essentializing of Indigenous Tourism?