Maarja Kaaristo
Biographic Data
| ID | 217048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maarja Kaaristo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maarja |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaaristo |
| SIGNATURE | KAARISTO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2803-0418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Creative responses to an informal space: The affordances of Pomona Island
Understanding Watery Infrastructure: The UK's canals as an interior aquapelago
Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Shima Publishing (Australia). Shima is SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals since 2007
Towards liminal balance: Unpacking the UK's urban canal space
This paper critically examines the liminal geographies of the United Kingdom's 7,000‐mile canal and river network, embodying a thread of complex intersections and interactions between water and land. Drawing on a study involving stakeholder interviews, group discussion with canal users, and observational walks in Manchester and London, the paper explores the concepts of liminal flux, scalar intersections, and deliminalisation. We first outline ho…
Understanding train tourism mobilities: A Practice Theories Perspective
By integrating mobilities research with practice theories, this paper uncovers the interdependencies between tourism, transport and mobilities that allows for a more comprehensive analysis of individual mobile practices and their connections with other mobilities and tourism practices at a destination.By analysing train travel as a performance, practice entity (materials, meanings and competencies) and practice bundle, we also bridge the structur…
Pacemaking and placemaking on the UK canals
This paper focuses on the complex relationship between pace and place, offering a novel lens for understanding mobility within the context of canal boating. Drawing on fieldwork on the canals in north-west England, the paper focuses on mobile placemaking practices. Canal boats act as physical and material but also ideological pacemakers, guiding the boaters towards subscribing to the idea of slow living, where certain canal-based pace-myths play …
Geographies of inland waterscapes: Thinking with watery places
Humans and water have a complex relationship that includes various dimensions such as sociocultural, political, legal and ecological. Considering the ubiquity of water, we need a more holistic perspective to help us see water not as a static entity but rather as one in constant movement, physically and conceptually; acknowledging the interplay between water and humans is essential to understanding societal narratives deeply embedded in places. In…
Absence as an affordance: Thinking With(out) Water on the Inland Waterways
This article extends our understanding of inland waterways by theorising the temporary absences of water in canals and rivers as possibilities for action, that is, affordances. The interplay of temporary absence and presence of water in the inland waterways provides a range of potentialities for various activities and practices. Affordance theory can help us to further theorise material absences and position them as important elements of performi…
Tourist skills
This study extends the theoretical debate on skills as an important element of tourism as a practice. Analysing qualitative data on train and canal boating tourism in the UK, we discuss how some tourism practices require both specialist and commonplace skills, while others only need the latter. Moreover, every tourism practice is skilled, and all skills are learned and portable from the context in which they were acquired to new situations and pr…
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field
Negotiating the relationships influenced by a combination of identity markers during fieldwork is an important aspect of qualitative data co-creation. Based on ethnographic research with the canal boating and enthusiast communities in the UK, this paper focuses on the mundane power dynamics and hierarchies in research situations. The paper discusses the role of humour in negotiating the interpersonal dynamics and argues for the consideration of p…
Liquidness: Conceptualising water within boating tourism
This paper discusses the elemental materialities of water mobilities, bringing the agentive qualities of water to the centre of theoretical discussion of tourism. Analysing data collected through qualitative interviews with, and participant observation of, British boating tourists, the analysis of watery materialities and the corresponding tourist assemblages are presented across water bodies: on inland waterways and in coastal areas. Examining t…
Governing mobilities on the UK canal network
This paper examines mobility governance in an environment where varied mobility practices occur. Drawing on a quasi-ethnography of canal users in England and Wales, we discuss how multiple mobilities (including boating, walking, cycling and running) are practised in the relatively confined and linear spaces of canals and adjacent towpaths, and often at the same time. We demonstrate how these different yet intertwined modes of movement, and their …
Waterways and the cultural landscape
In regards to the recreational aspects of water bodies, until recently the focus of tourism geographers has mostly been on a large-scale, that is, oceans and seas. For example, taking holidays on c
Everyday life and water tourism mobilities: Mundane Aspects of Canal Travel
Tourism is frequently construed as unusual and extraordinary in contrast to the routines and predictability of work and home life. However, the tourism spaces are co-created through practices that are simultaneously mundane and unusual. Yet everyday touristic practices are seldom researched, especially regarding water tourism. The mundane strategies of creating the boatspace form an important part of the tourist experience of everyday life on can…
Value of silence: Mediating aural environments in Estonian rural tourism
This paper concentrates on the creation of value(s) by rural tourism entrepreneurs via intangible and atmospheric natural resources, the aural environment. The creation of value is analysed with regard to how the rural tourism entrepreneurs facilitate and mediate the aural environment of their farms to their guests and how by doing so the notions of rurality and rural environment are constantly (re)created and (re)negotiated. The paper concentrat…
Studying Home Fields: Encounters of Ethnology and Anthropology in Estonia
SF0130033s07. We are very grateful to our reviewers, and to Ene Kõresaar, Kadri Koreinik, Triinu Mets, and Anu Kannike for their comments and suggestions on various drafts of this article. Notes 1. Until the 1980s, Estonian ethnology was referred to as ethnography (see Pärdi 1998 Pärdi, H. 1998. Mõistetest etnograafia,etnoloogia ja rahvateadus. Akadeemia, 2: 252–66. [Google Scholar] for an overview of the development of the term). In anthropology…
Our Clock Moves at a Different Pace: The Timescapes of Identity in Estonian Rural Tourism
One of the effects and results of tourism is that it marks our sense of time, differentiating the extraordinary and 'heightened' time and the time of the mundane. An important role in this is played by the hosts - in the case of rural tourism by the farm owners and tour guides. The tourism farmers and tour guides act as mediators of the temporal experience, therefore creating and providing various timescapes for their guests. An altered perceptio…
Vägivald loomade vastu: Inimene ja koduloom Lõuna-Eesti külas 19. sajandi teisel poolel vallakohtude protokollide näitel
Using parish court records as a source of study requires understanding the history of the the parish court as an institution and the court institutions for peasants of the Estonian region in general. The first parish courts in Estonia were established in the late 18th century, and generally were subject to change with the regulations of 1802 and the peasant laws of 1804. The Livonian peasant law does not set punishment for hitting, beating and vi…
Peksmine ja löömine Eesti külas 1868-1911 Nursi vallakohtu protokollide näitel. Õigusetnoloogiline perspektiiv
TeesidKäesoleva artikli eesmärk on anda põgus
Everyday life and water tourism mobilities: Mundane Aspects of Canal Travel
Tourism is frequently construed as unusual and extraordinary in contrast to the routines and predictability of work and home life. However, the tourism spaces are co-created through practices that are simultaneously mundane and unusual. Yet everyday touristic practices are seldom researched, especially regarding water tourism. The mundane strategies of creating the boatspace form an important part of the tourist experience of everyday life on can…
Tourist skills
This study extends the theoretical debate on skills as an important element of tourism as a practice. Analysing qualitative data on train and canal boating tourism in the UK, we discuss how some tourism practices require both specialist and commonplace skills, while others only need the latter. Moreover, every tourism practice is skilled, and all skills are learned and portable from the context in which they were acquired to new situations and pr…
Liquidness: Conceptualising water within boating tourism
This paper discusses the elemental materialities of water mobilities, bringing the agentive qualities of water to the centre of theoretical discussion of tourism. Analysing data collected through qualitative interviews with, and participant observation of, British boating tourists, the analysis of watery materialities and the corresponding tourist assemblages are presented across water bodies: on inland waterways and in coastal areas. Examining t…
Governing mobilities on the UK canal network
This paper examines mobility governance in an environment where varied mobility practices occur. Drawing on a quasi-ethnography of canal users in England and Wales, we discuss how multiple mobilities (including boating, walking, cycling and running) are practised in the relatively confined and linear spaces of canals and adjacent towpaths, and often at the same time. We demonstrate how these different yet intertwined modes of movement, and their …
Absence as an affordance: Thinking With(out) Water on the Inland Waterways
This article extends our understanding of inland waterways by theorising the temporary absences of water in canals and rivers as possibilities for action, that is, affordances. The interplay of temporary absence and presence of water in the inland waterways provides a range of potentialities for various activities and practices. Affordance theory can help us to further theorise material absences and position them as important elements of performi…
Value of silence: Mediating aural environments in Estonian rural tourism
This paper concentrates on the creation of value(s) by rural tourism entrepreneurs via intangible and atmospheric natural resources, the aural environment. The creation of value is analysed with regard to how the rural tourism entrepreneurs facilitate and mediate the aural environment of their farms to their guests and how by doing so the notions of rurality and rural environment are constantly (re)created and (re)negotiated. The paper concentrat…
Towards liminal balance: Unpacking the UK's urban canal space
This paper critically examines the liminal geographies of the United Kingdom's 7,000‐mile canal and river network, embodying a thread of complex intersections and interactions between water and land. Drawing on a study involving stakeholder interviews, group discussion with canal users, and observational walks in Manchester and London, the paper explores the concepts of liminal flux, scalar intersections, and deliminalisation. We first outline ho…
Understanding train tourism mobilities: A Practice Theories Perspective
By integrating mobilities research with practice theories, this paper uncovers the interdependencies between tourism, transport and mobilities that allows for a more comprehensive analysis of individual mobile practices and their connections with other mobilities and tourism practices at a destination.By analysing train travel as a performance, practice entity (materials, meanings and competencies) and practice bundle, we also bridge the structur…
Pacemaking and placemaking on the UK canals
This paper focuses on the complex relationship between pace and place, offering a novel lens for understanding mobility within the context of canal boating. Drawing on fieldwork on the canals in north-west England, the paper focuses on mobile placemaking practices. Canal boats act as physical and material but also ideological pacemakers, guiding the boaters towards subscribing to the idea of slow living, where certain canal-based pace-myths play …
Geographies of inland waterscapes: Thinking with watery places
Humans and water have a complex relationship that includes various dimensions such as sociocultural, political, legal and ecological. Considering the ubiquity of water, we need a more holistic perspective to help us see water not as a static entity but rather as one in constant movement, physically and conceptually; acknowledging the interplay between water and humans is essential to understanding societal narratives deeply embedded in places. In…
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field
Negotiating the relationships influenced by a combination of identity markers during fieldwork is an important aspect of qualitative data co-creation. Based on ethnographic research with the canal boating and enthusiast communities in the UK, this paper focuses on the mundane power dynamics and hierarchies in research situations. The paper discusses the role of humour in negotiating the interpersonal dynamics and argues for the consideration of p…
Waterways and the cultural landscape
In regards to the recreational aspects of water bodies, until recently the focus of tourism geographers has mostly been on a large-scale, that is, oceans and seas. For example, taking holidays on c
Studying Home Fields: Encounters of Ethnology and Anthropology in Estonia
SF0130033s07. We are very grateful to our reviewers, and to Ene Kõresaar, Kadri Koreinik, Triinu Mets, and Anu Kannike for their comments and suggestions on various drafts of this article. Notes 1. Until the 1980s, Estonian ethnology was referred to as ethnography (see Pärdi 1998 Pärdi, H. 1998. Mõistetest etnograafia,etnoloogia ja rahvateadus. Akadeemia, 2: 252–66. [Google Scholar] for an overview of the development of the term). In anthropology…
Our Clock Moves at a Different Pace: The Timescapes of Identity in Estonian Rural Tourism
One of the effects and results of tourism is that it marks our sense of time, differentiating the extraordinary and 'heightened' time and the time of the mundane. An important role in this is played by the hosts - in the case of rural tourism by the farm owners and tour guides. The tourism farmers and tour guides act as mediators of the temporal experience, therefore creating and providing various timescapes for their guests. An altered perceptio…
Peksmine ja löömine Eesti külas 1868-1911 Nursi vallakohtu protokollide näitel. Õigusetnoloogiline perspektiiv
TeesidKäesoleva artikli eesmärk on anda põgus
Vägivald loomade vastu: Inimene ja koduloom Lõuna-Eesti külas 19. sajandi teisel poolel vallakohtude protokollide näitel
Using parish court records as a source of study requires understanding the history of the the parish court as an institution and the court institutions for peasants of the Estonian region in general. The first parish courts in Estonia were established in the late 18th century, and generally were subject to change with the regulations of 1802 and the peasant laws of 1804. The Livonian peasant law does not set punishment for hitting, beating and vi…
Our Clock Moves at a Different Pace: The Timescapes of Identity in Estonian Rural Tourism
One of the effects and results of tourism is that it marks our sense of time, differentiating the extraordinary and 'heightened' time and the time of the mundane. An important role in this is played by the hosts - in the case of rural tourism by the farm owners and tour guides. The tourism farmers and tour guides act as mediators of the temporal experience, therefore creating and providing various timescapes for their guests. An altered perceptio…
Studying Home Fields: Encounters of Ethnology and Anthropology in Estonia
SF0130033s07. We are very grateful to our reviewers, and to Ene Kõresaar, Kadri Koreinik, Triinu Mets, and Anu Kannike for their comments and suggestions on various drafts of this article. Notes 1. Until the 1980s, Estonian ethnology was referred to as ethnography (see Pärdi 1998 Pärdi, H. 1998. Mõistetest etnograafia,etnoloogia ja rahvateadus. Akadeemia, 2: 252–66. [Google Scholar] for an overview of the development of the term). In anthropology…
Value of silence: Mediating aural environments in Estonian rural tourism
This paper concentrates on the creation of value(s) by rural tourism entrepreneurs via intangible and atmospheric natural resources, the aural environment. The creation of value is analysed with regard to how the rural tourism entrepreneurs facilitate and mediate the aural environment of their farms to their guests and how by doing so the notions of rurality and rural environment are constantly (re)created and (re)negotiated. The paper concentrat…
Everyday life and water tourism mobilities: Mundane Aspects of Canal Travel
Tourism is frequently construed as unusual and extraordinary in contrast to the routines and predictability of work and home life. However, the tourism spaces are co-created through practices that are simultaneously mundane and unusual. Yet everyday touristic practices are seldom researched, especially regarding water tourism. The mundane strategies of creating the boatspace form an important part of the tourist experience of everyday life on can…
Waterways and the cultural landscape
In regards to the recreational aspects of water bodies, until recently the focus of tourism geographers has mostly been on a large-scale, that is, oceans and seas. For example, taking holidays on c
Liquidness: Conceptualising water within boating tourism
This paper discusses the elemental materialities of water mobilities, bringing the agentive qualities of water to the centre of theoretical discussion of tourism. Analysing data collected through qualitative interviews with, and participant observation of, British boating tourists, the analysis of watery materialities and the corresponding tourist assemblages are presented across water bodies: on inland waterways and in coastal areas. Examining t…
Governing mobilities on the UK canal network
This paper examines mobility governance in an environment where varied mobility practices occur. Drawing on a quasi-ethnography of canal users in England and Wales, we discuss how multiple mobilities (including boating, walking, cycling and running) are practised in the relatively confined and linear spaces of canals and adjacent towpaths, and often at the same time. We demonstrate how these different yet intertwined modes of movement, and their …
Tourist skills
This study extends the theoretical debate on skills as an important element of tourism as a practice. Analysing qualitative data on train and canal boating tourism in the UK, we discuss how some tourism practices require both specialist and commonplace skills, while others only need the latter. Moreover, every tourism practice is skilled, and all skills are learned and portable from the context in which they were acquired to new situations and pr…
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field
Negotiating the relationships influenced by a combination of identity markers during fieldwork is an important aspect of qualitative data co-creation. Based on ethnographic research with the canal boating and enthusiast communities in the UK, this paper focuses on the mundane power dynamics and hierarchies in research situations. The paper discusses the role of humour in negotiating the interpersonal dynamics and argues for the consideration of p…
Absence as an affordance: Thinking With(out) Water on the Inland Waterways
This article extends our understanding of inland waterways by theorising the temporary absences of water in canals and rivers as possibilities for action, that is, affordances. The interplay of temporary absence and presence of water in the inland waterways provides a range of potentialities for various activities and practices. Affordance theory can help us to further theorise material absences and position them as important elements of performi…
Towards liminal balance: Unpacking the UK's urban canal space
This paper critically examines the liminal geographies of the United Kingdom's 7,000‐mile canal and river network, embodying a thread of complex intersections and interactions between water and land. Drawing on a study involving stakeholder interviews, group discussion with canal users, and observational walks in Manchester and London, the paper explores the concepts of liminal flux, scalar intersections, and deliminalisation. We first outline ho…
Understanding train tourism mobilities: A Practice Theories Perspective
By integrating mobilities research with practice theories, this paper uncovers the interdependencies between tourism, transport and mobilities that allows for a more comprehensive analysis of individual mobile practices and their connections with other mobilities and tourism practices at a destination.By analysing train travel as a performance, practice entity (materials, meanings and competencies) and practice bundle, we also bridge the structur…
Pacemaking and placemaking on the UK canals
This paper focuses on the complex relationship between pace and place, offering a novel lens for understanding mobility within the context of canal boating. Drawing on fieldwork on the canals in north-west England, the paper focuses on mobile placemaking practices. Canal boats act as physical and material but also ideological pacemakers, guiding the boaters towards subscribing to the idea of slow living, where certain canal-based pace-myths play …
Geographies of inland waterscapes: Thinking with watery places
Humans and water have a complex relationship that includes various dimensions such as sociocultural, political, legal and ecological. Considering the ubiquity of water, we need a more holistic perspective to help us see water not as a static entity but rather as one in constant movement, physically and conceptually; acknowledging the interplay between water and humans is essential to understanding societal narratives deeply embedded in places. In…
Creative responses to an informal space: The affordances of Pomona Island
Understanding Watery Infrastructure: The UK's canals as an interior aquapelago
Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Shima Publishing (Australia). Shima is SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals since 2007
Geography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Tourism (6 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Mobilities (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)