Tourism Encounters and Controversies

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson is Associate Professor at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland. His research interests are in the area of tourism policy, cultural economies and innovation. Carina Ren is Associate professor in culture and innovation at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research interests include tourism encounters, the materiality of tourism and destination and nation branding practices. René van der Duim has a Special Professorship in Tourism and Sustainable Development at Wageningen Uuniversity. His research focuses on the relation between tourism and sustainable development.

• Chapter 1 Tourism Encounters, Controversies and Ontologies, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren, René van der Duim; Chapter 2 Shaping Money and Relationships in Touristic Cuba, Valerio Simoni; Chapter 3 Reef Controversies, Senna Middelveld, René van der Duim, Rico Lie; Chapter 4 Entrepreneurship and Controversies of Tourism Development, Anniken Førde; Chapter 5 Mapping the New Nordic Issue-scape, Anders Kristian Munk, Anne-Kristine Bøcher Ellern; Chapter 6 Real Things, Tourist Things and Drawing the Line in the Ocean, Felicity Picken; Chapter 7 Conflicts Forever. The Path Dependencies of Tourism Conflicts; the Case of Anabeb Conservancy, Namibia, Arjaan Pellis, Martijn Duineveld, Lauren Wagner; Chapter 8 The Tourist-Vampire and the Citizen as Ontological Figures, Richard Ek; Chapter 9 Hotel California, Claudio Minca, Chin Ee Ong; Chapter 10 A Fish Called Tourism, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson; Chapter 11 Topological Encounters, Edward H. Huijbens; Chapter 12 Possible Greenland, Carina Ren; Chapter 13 Postscript, Carina Ren, René van der Duim, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson;

’At last a book that takes us beyond simple case studies! This collection re-introduces us to the concept of phronesis or practical wisdom as a means to develop a more sophisticated analysis of tourism encounters as diverse topological relations. The authors develop important insights into the relations of tourism encounters based upon their nuanced conflicts and multiple assemblages.’ Kevin Hannam, Leeds Beckett University, UK ’Instead of asking what tourism is, this ground-breaking book shows what tourism does - with whom and with what. It brings the pedagogics of tourism studies from a mere schooling of the labour force for fixed jobs into a creative platform of relational encounters that engender practical and skilful knowledge and concerns about tourism in the future.’ Soile Veijola, University of Lapland, Finland