Materializing tourist weather
Ethnography on Weather-Wise Wilderness Guiding Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2390973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Outi Rantala (0000-0003-2340-9522, University of Lapland, corresponding author), Anu Valtonen (0000-0001-8940-1254, University of Lapland), Vesa Markuksela (0000-0002-1106-4830, University of Lapland) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-300 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183511413646 |
| OpenAlex | W1999337044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 52 |
This study examines the hitherto under-explored relationships between weather, human action and the natural environment from a practice-based perspective. Using an ethnographic study on wilderness guiding in Finnish Lapland, the article first examines the integral role of weather when conceptualizing tourist activities taking place outdoors. The authors identify three types of weather-related practices: anticipating and coping with the weather, as well as discursive practices related to weather. They therefore demonstrate how weather manipulates human practices by narrowing down or extending the possibilities for outdoor activities. Second, by materializing weather, the study provides a more nuanced understanding of the diverse ways in which weather - a material entity in itself - is involved in the enactment of various socio-material practices; here the authors make the case for a specific repertoire of weather-wise skills. The study concludes that weather holds agency as it exerts a significant power in directing and redirecting human nature-based activities
Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Climate change · Ethnography · Extreme weather · Geography · Natural (archaeology · Repertoire · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Wilderness · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |