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dc.contributor.authorSturød, Anne Gry Gudmundsdotter
dc.coverage.spatialKyrgyzstannb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-05T13:17:12Z
dc.date.available2019-12-05T13:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-13
dc.identifier.isbn978-82-7206-540-8
dc.identifier.issn2535-5252
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2632009
dc.description.abstractTourism has become one of the most common strategies for economic development in many poor countries. Moreover, tourism has become a force of globalization not only contributing to the mobilization of people and economic development but also to the spreading of values, information, knowledge and perceptions. While tourism is considered to be one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, nature-based tourism and eco-tourism are claimed to be one of the fastest-growing niches within tourism. At the same time, there is a move of tourism flows away from the traditional tourist destinations towards new and “unexplored” destinations. One of these destinations is the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, located in Central Asia. This research project asks the question: “How does nature-based tourism contribute to changed perceptions and relations to nature in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan?” To explore this question, I look at the practices related to nature by humans, but also how nature and the non-human agency of nature affect and relate to humans; that is, how the materiality of nature is able to change human practices. I look at some very concrete material objects, namely the snow/coal, the horse and the mountain. Based on my empirical material and interpretations of this, I have found that perceptions and relations to nature do partly change when tourism starts to develop. However, perhaps more than changing perceptions and relations to the nature, naturebased tourism contributes to adding new perceptions and relations to nature, through new ways of enactment in the world. Nature-based tourism thus becomes a way for human and non-human actors to come into the world or “being in the world” both through new practices and new knowledge. These new ontologies do not necessarily replace each other, or exist separately from one another; they may actually co-exist and evolve within one another.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherUniversity of South-Eastern Norwaynb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDoctoral dissertations at the University of South-Eastern Norway;46
dc.relation.haspartArticle 1: Sturød, A.G.: From coal to cool: Reordering nature in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Tourist Studies 19(2), (2019), 141-163. 414-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619832317nb_NO
dc.relation.haspartArticle 2: Sturød, A.G., Helgadottir, G. & Nordbø, I.: The Kyrgyz horse. Enactments and agencies in and beyond tourism. Current Issues in Tourism, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2019.1626813. Not available in USN Open Archivenb_NO
dc.relation.haspartArticle 3: Sturød, A.G. & Birkeland, I.: The political ontology of Kyrgyz mountains. Manuscript submitted to Cultural Geographies. Not available in USN Open Archivenb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectnaturenb_NO
dc.subjectnature-based tourismnb_NO
dc.subjectKyrgyzstannb_NO
dc.subjectactor network theorynb_NO
dc.subjectpolitical ecologynb_NO
dc.subjectthe pluriversenb_NO
dc.titleThe snow, the horse and the mountain. Towards a pluriversal understanding of natures and nature-based tourism in Kyrgyzstannb_NO
dc.typeDoctoral thesisnb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.rights.holder©2019 Anne Gry Gudmundsdotter Sturødnb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Social science: 200::Human geography: 290nb_NO


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