Tourism and Indigeneity in the Arctic

308 Pages·2017·3.97 MB·English

by  Arvid Viken

Tourism and Indigeneity in
the Arctic
TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE
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TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE: 51
Tourism and Indigeneity in
the Arctic
Edited by
Arvid Viken and Dieter K. Müller
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Series: Tourism and Cultural Change: 51 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016054817| ISBN 9781845416096 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Tourism–Arctic Regions–Sociological aspects. | Tourism–Economic
aspects–Arctic Regions. | Arctic peoples.
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xv
Part 1: Conceptualizing Arctic Indigeneity and Tourism
1 Indigenous Tourism in the Arctic 3
Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken
2 Indigeneity and Indigenous Tourism 16
Arvid Viken and Dieter K. Müller
3 Images of the Northern and ‘Arctic’ in Tourism and
Regional Literature 33
E. Carina H. Keskitalo
4 Orientalism or Cultural Encounters? Tourism Assemblages in
Cultures, Capital and Identities 50
Britt Kramvig
Part 2: Arctic Contestations; Resourcification of
Indigenous Landscapes
5 Sami Tourism at the Crossroads: Globalization as a Challenge
for Business, Environment and Culture in Swedish Sápmi 71
Dieter K. Müller and Fredrik Hoppstadius
6 Tourist Hegemonies of Outside Powers: The Case of Salmon
Fishing Safari Camps in Territories of Traditional Land Use
(Kola Peninsula) 87
Yulian Konstantinov
v
vi Contents
7 Empowering Whom? Politics and Realities of Indigenous
Tourism Development in the Russian Arctic 105
Albina Pashkevich
8 Destination Development in the Middle of the Sápmi:
Whose Voice is Heard and How? 122
Seija Tuulentie
9 Culture in Nature: Exploring the Role of ‘Culture’ in the
Destination of Ilulissat, Greenland 137
Karina M. Smed
Part 3: Touristification of the Arctic – Indigenous Wrapping
10 Peripheral Geographies of Creativity: The Case for Aboriginal
Tourism in Canada’s Yukon Territory 157
John S. Hull, Suzanne de la Barre and Patrick T. Maher
11 Sport and Folklore Festivals of the North as Sites of Indigenous
Cultural Revitalization in Russia 182
Vladislava Vladimirova
12 Indigenous Hospitality and Tourism: Past Trajectories
and New Beginnings 205
Gro B. Ween and Jan Åge Riseth
Part 4: Tourism Negotiating Sami Traditions
13 What Does the Sieidi Do? Tourism as a Part of a
Continued Tradition? 225
Kjell Olsen
14 Sami Tourism in Northern Norway: Indigenous Spirituality
and Processes of Cultural Branding 246
Trude Fonneland
Contents vii
15 Respect in the Girdnu: The Sami Verdde Institution and
Tourism in Northern Norway 261
Gaute Svensson and Arvid Viken
Part 5: Epilogue
16 Toward a De-Essentializing of Indigenous Tourism? 281
Dieter K. Müller and Arvid Viken
Index 290

Contributors
Suzanne de la Barre, PhD, is a faculty member with the Department of
Recreation and Tourism Management, Vancouver Island University (Canada).
She holds an adjunct position at Yukon College (Canada) and is a Research
Associate with the Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå
University (Sweden). Her research uses place-based approaches to investi-
gate change in peripheral regions, with a focus on northwestern and Arctic
Canada. More specifically, her interests examine economic diversification,
the cultural and creative sectors, tourism, community development and the
role of social innovation in remote and rural areas.
Trude Fonneland is currently Professor in the Department of Culture
Studies at Tromsø Museum, at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Her
research interests revolve around contemporary religion in society, particu-
larly Sami shamanism, tourism and popular culture. Her dissertation (2010)
focused on the developments of modern Sami shamanism in Norway. She
is also the author of several scholarly articles on the subject. Her latest pub-
lications include Nordic Neoshamanisms (2015: editor together with Siv Ellen
Kraft and James Lewis).
Fredrik Hoppstadius is a PhD student in human geography at the
Department of Geography, Media and Communication, Karlstad University,
Sweden, where he is also affiliated with The Centre for Research on Region
Building (CRS). Hoppstadius is working on a thesis on ecotourism and
sustainable development in biosphere reserves. Before joining Karlstad
University, he worked as a project assistant at Umeå University on issues of
Sami tourism and northern development.
John S. Hull is an Associate Professor of Tourism Management at
Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada, and a Visiting
Professor at Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Norway and at the
Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He is also a member of the
New Zealand Tourism Research Institute. His research addresses the sus-
tainability of tourism planning and destination development in peripheral
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