From mining tool to tourist attraction
Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9225717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Kotašková (0000-0002-5652-9398, Masaryk University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247422000092 |
| OpenAlex | W4285060599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 27 |
In the context of socio-economic transformation of Svalbard, from a place dominated by the coal mining industry to a nature-based tourism destination, the article focuses on how this transformation is co-created with material objects of coal mining remnants. These seemingly marginal, insignificant or even out-of-place remnants of coal mining activity (such as rusty barrels or collapsing infrastructure) have become, by law, a protected part of the Svalbard environment, a cultural heritage. Based on the relational (more-than-human) ethnography of guided tours, the analysis shows that this transformation is co-creating the characteristics of both the past of coal mining and the present notion of wilderness. It demonstrates the process not only as a transformation of interpretations, knowledge and values but also as a transformation of relations with non-human components of the environment. Rather contextual than linear shifts in a biography of the objects, together with the temporality of the objects and their porous character, play a significant role in the Svalbard’s transformation into a nature-based tourism destination
Archaeology · Coal · Coal mining · Context (archaeology) · Cultural heritage · Epistemology · Geography · Heritage tourism · Sociology · Temporality · Tourism · Tourism geography · Transformation (genetics) · Wilderness · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy
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Imaginary, tourism
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The Perception of the Environment
The temporality of the landscape
Making
The Body Multiple
The Global Situation
Global Anxieties
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |