C Ren
Biographic Data
| ID | 28048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Ren |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ren |
| SIGNATURE | REN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4414-5917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 216 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A review of research into Arctic tourism
This review of research into Arctic Tourism launches the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on Arctic Tourism. Instead of dwelling on the question of what Arctic tourism is, the review proceeds to inquire how the Arctic comes to matter for tourism research and what we, as scholars and practitioners of tourism, can learn from a focus on the Arctic. By discussing what the authors believe are the most relevant and dominant research traits…
Navigating a changing Arctic: Toward adaptive governance in Greenland and Svalbard
Tourism is vital in ensuring thriving communities in peripheral areas of the Arctic. However, many Arctic destinations have seen a dramatic increase in visitors, raising concerns about their ability to withstand tourism pressures. Simultaneously, socioecological systems in the region are undergoing rapid transformations with significant implications for future development. This study, based on qualitative research conducted from 2020 to 2024, exp…
Rethinking connectivity in Arctic tourism development
North-Atlantic gastrotourism on the move: Constructing the Faroe Islands as a food destination
In this article, we explore the role of gastronomy in the development of the Faroe Islands as a tourism destination. We describe and analyze the practices and discourses of the Michelin-star restaurant KOKS, a destination landmark, looking at how high-end food transformations contribute to broader processes of narrating and constructing the islands as a food destination. To trace what this construction looks like in practice, we zoom in on the in…
The Domestic Turn in Postpandemic Indigenous Arctic Tourism: Emerging Stories of Self and Other
In this article, we explore how the lockdowns followed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rise in domestic tourism impacted the ways in which Arctic tourism businesses sold and shared their experiences and stories to the domestic tourist–for many, a new and unusual guest. In exploring cases from Greenland and Northern Norway, we are interested in describing tourism marketing and product innovation in times of crisis, using this disruptio…
Food, national identity and tourism in Greenland
This article explores the dynamic relationship between food, national identity and tourism in the context of Greenland, showing how food contributes to identity development and how in turn identity communication fuels tourism attraction and gastrodiplomacy. In the following, we first offer a review of current literature on national food identity and introduce Greenland, an Arctic nation moving toward independence from the kingdom of Denmark, as a…
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development
In this article, we introduce the concept of politics of comparison in tourism development, looking at how comparison contributes to shaping and making sense of tourism development in Greenland. Decision makers and operators in Greenland foresee tourism growth as new transatlantic airports are set to open by 2024. To navigate an uncertain tourism future, many look towards neighbouring Iceland, who experienced exponential growth in international t…
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour: Actor-Network Theory, Critical Proximity and Down to Earth
Bruno Latour passed away October 9 2022. At the age of 75 he was still actively dealing with pertinent questions of human existence on Earth through relational thought and tools he started to develop in the 1970s. Latour’s intellectual work is difficult to classify into disciplinary categories; it traverses the boundaries of philosophy, anthropology and sociology as well as geography and has also been translated by others into for instance touris…
Hacking Hekla: Exploring the dynamics of digital innovation in rural areas
This article explores innovation initiatives in rural communities in Iceland conveyed through the implementation and perceived outcomes of the hackathon Hacking Hekla. Digitalisation is often proposed as a new, all-purpose tool for regional development that responds to rural challenges innovatively. However, the digital role is often less clear when examining finer development practices. Hackathons are frequently applied to achieve instant econom…
A Just Destination? Exploring Local Hopes, Fears, and Power Asymmetries in East Greenlandic (Tunu) Tourism Development
This paper examines current actions towards tourism development in East Greenland (Tunu) and the expectations and concerns of locals in Tasiilaq, specifically regarding the possible inclusion of the East Greenlandic hunting culture on the UNESCO World Heritage List. We explore how locals see the potential and impact of the UNESCO recognition on tourism development in the region and its potential effects on local economy, culture, and traditions. …
Qu'est-ce qu'un label ? Formulation de l'identité à travers les systèmes de certification dans la construction de la nation post-coloniale groenlandaise
Dans cet article, nous explorons le lien entre les systèmes de certification industrielle et la formulation de l'identité dans un contexte plus large d'indépendance du Groenland. Nous explorons les visions ethno-politiques et les interférences qui émanent du processus d'indépendance nationale comme outil heuristique, en nous appuyant sur trois labels de durabilité utilisés dans les secteurs de la pêche, de la chasse et du tourisme au Groenland. E…
What's in a Label? Articulating Identity through Certification Schemes in Greenlandic Post-Colonial Nation Building
In this article, we explore the connection between industrial certification schemes and the articulation of identity within a broader context of Greenlandic independence. As a heuristic tool to explore ethno-political visions and interferences that emerge from the process of national independence, we draw on three sustainability labels used within the Greenlandic fisheries, hunting and tourism sectors. Drawing on their framings of sustainability,…
Emerging Issues in Contemporary Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)
Arctic Connectivity: A Frugal Approach to Infrastructural Development
As the Arctic is heating up, so are efforts to strengthen connectivity within the region, enhance the connections from remote settlements to the global networks of trade, and increase sociality. With global interest in the Arctic on the rise, it becomes increasingly relevant to ensure that investments in Arctic infrastructure actually serve the people of the Arctic, while promoting industrial and commercial innovation in the region through widesp…
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland
In this article, we explore tourism development as an ongoing becoming-with and in the world. We draw on Haraway’s concept of worlding to describe the coming together of tourism not as a solitary or industry-related endeavour, but as entangled. We introduce the analytical concepts of frictions, companions and string figures to exemplify and discuss what this looks like when stepping closer to the tinkering with tourism. The article illustrates an…
(Staying with) the trouble with tourism and travel theory
It has now been 20 years since Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s The trouble with tourism and travel theory? introduced the first volume of Tourist Studies. In the year of 2001, business-oriented approaches to studying tourism were thriving due to the rapid growth of tourism. In their diagnosis of tourism research of the day, Franklin and Crang pointed to the lack of theory and “a tendency for studies to follow a template, repeating and reinforcin…
Messy realities and collaborative knowledge production in tourism
In this paper, we draw on a relational ontology to explore what collaborative ways of knowing might mean in the field of tourism research. Using tourism as a prism to explore the messy realities of collaborative knowledge production, we argue that knowledge is always co-created through situated practices. By focusing on collaboration and co-creation of research and based on a discussion on what, how and where to know we suggest four orientations …
Motivations for Indigenous island entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs and behavioral economics in Greenland
Greenland continues to undergo decolonization, the ultimate political ambition being a ‘self-sustaining economy’ and political independence from Denmark. Drawing on a recent survey in combination with ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the connection between political independence and entrepreneurial activities in Greenland. While entrepreneurs are increasingly expected to play a central role in fostering economic change, we are curious …
Lice work: Non-human trajectories in volunteer tourism
This article studies volunteer tourism by following the trajectories of a non-human actor. Based on fieldwork at a Nepalese orphanage and drawing on insights from the material semiotics of Actor–Network Theory, we describe how the louse interferes as an unexpected actor with volunteer tourism at the orphanage. This post-human approach decentres the volunteer and destabilises the host–guest binary while adding to our understanding of tourism pract…
Bring the numbers and stories together”: Valuing events
We are the Arctic: Identities at the Arctic Winter Games 2016
In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also c…
Ant: A decade of interfering with tourism
Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development
The multiplicity of tourism encounters provide some of the best available occasions to observe the social world and its making(s). Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of devel…
Much More than a Song Contest”: Exploring Eurovision 2014 as Potlatch
As economic and budgetary scandals reached Danish front pages in 2014 over the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) held that year in Copenhagen, many bystanders questioned the sense of the event, proclaiming it a massive waste of public money. In this article, we introduce the concept of “potlatch” to explore the valuation and values of this event, seeing it as a “total social phenomenon” in which more than merely economic matters are at stake. Framing…
Steaming Up or Staying Cool? Tourism Development and Greenlandic Futures in the Light of Climate Change
The complex relationships between climate change, tourism, and societal development are remarkably palpable in the Arctic as documented and projected consequences of global climate change have reinvigorated—rather than decelerated—the prospects of economic development in this region. This is reflected in the increased tourism activities to remote circumpolar destinations such as the Ilulisaat Icefjord in Northern Greenland. Drawing from this exam…
Constructing tourism research
Ordering, materiality, and multiplicity: Enacting Actor–Network Theory in tourism
In this article, we demonstrate how Actor–Network Theory has been translated into tourism research. The article presents and discusses three concepts integral to the Actor–Network Theory approach: ordering, materiality, and multiplicity. We first briefly introduce Actor–Network Theory and draw attention to current Actor–Network Theory studies in tourism with a focus on how the approach is sensitive toward heterogeneous orderings. The following se…
Non-human agency, radical ontology and tourism realities
Ant: A decade of interfering with tourism
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development
In this article, we introduce the concept of politics of comparison in tourism development, looking at how comparison contributes to shaping and making sense of tourism development in Greenland. Decision makers and operators in Greenland foresee tourism growth as new transatlantic airports are set to open by 2024. To navigate an uncertain tourism future, many look towards neighbouring Iceland, who experienced exponential growth in international t…
Motivations for Indigenous island entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs and behavioral economics in Greenland
Greenland continues to undergo decolonization, the ultimate political ambition being a ‘self-sustaining economy’ and political independence from Denmark. Drawing on a recent survey in combination with ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the connection between political independence and entrepreneurial activities in Greenland. While entrepreneurs are increasingly expected to play a central role in fostering economic change, we are curious …
Lice work: Non-human trajectories in volunteer tourism
This article studies volunteer tourism by following the trajectories of a non-human actor. Based on fieldwork at a Nepalese orphanage and drawing on insights from the material semiotics of Actor–Network Theory, we describe how the louse interferes as an unexpected actor with volunteer tourism at the orphanage. This post-human approach decentres the volunteer and destabilises the host–guest binary while adding to our understanding of tourism pract…
Steaming Up or Staying Cool? Tourism Development and Greenlandic Futures in the Light of Climate Change
The complex relationships between climate change, tourism, and societal development are remarkably palpable in the Arctic as documented and projected consequences of global climate change have reinvigorated—rather than decelerated—the prospects of economic development in this region. This is reflected in the increased tourism activities to remote circumpolar destinations such as the Ilulisaat Icefjord in Northern Greenland. Drawing from this exam…
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour: Actor-Network Theory, Critical Proximity and Down to Earth
Bruno Latour passed away October 9 2022. At the age of 75 he was still actively dealing with pertinent questions of human existence on Earth through relational thought and tools he started to develop in the 1970s. Latour’s intellectual work is difficult to classify into disciplinary categories; it traverses the boundaries of philosophy, anthropology and sociology as well as geography and has also been translated by others into for instance touris…
(Staying with) the trouble with tourism and travel theory
It has now been 20 years since Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s The trouble with tourism and travel theory? introduced the first volume of Tourist Studies. In the year of 2001, business-oriented approaches to studying tourism were thriving due to the rapid growth of tourism. In their diagnosis of tourism research of the day, Franklin and Crang pointed to the lack of theory and “a tendency for studies to follow a template, repeating and reinforcin…
Rethinking connectivity in Arctic tourism development
Food, national identity and tourism in Greenland
This article explores the dynamic relationship between food, national identity and tourism in the context of Greenland, showing how food contributes to identity development and how in turn identity communication fuels tourism attraction and gastrodiplomacy. In the following, we first offer a review of current literature on national food identity and introduce Greenland, an Arctic nation moving toward independence from the kingdom of Denmark, as a…
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland
In this article, we explore tourism development as an ongoing becoming-with and in the world. We draw on Haraway’s concept of worlding to describe the coming together of tourism not as a solitary or industry-related endeavour, but as entangled. We introduce the analytical concepts of frictions, companions and string figures to exemplify and discuss what this looks like when stepping closer to the tinkering with tourism. The article illustrates an…
Messy realities and collaborative knowledge production in tourism
In this paper, we draw on a relational ontology to explore what collaborative ways of knowing might mean in the field of tourism research. Using tourism as a prism to explore the messy realities of collaborative knowledge production, we argue that knowledge is always co-created through situated practices. By focusing on collaboration and co-creation of research and based on a discussion on what, how and where to know we suggest four orientations …
Bring the numbers and stories together”: Valuing events
We are the Arctic: Identities at the Arctic Winter Games 2016
In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also c…
Auto-communicating micro-Orientalism: Articulating ‘Denmark’ in China at the Shanghai Expo
Navigating a changing Arctic: Toward adaptive governance in Greenland and Svalbard
Tourism is vital in ensuring thriving communities in peripheral areas of the Arctic. However, many Arctic destinations have seen a dramatic increase in visitors, raising concerns about their ability to withstand tourism pressures. Simultaneously, socioecological systems in the region are undergoing rapid transformations with significant implications for future development. This study, based on qualitative research conducted from 2020 to 2024, exp…
A Just Destination? Exploring Local Hopes, Fears, and Power Asymmetries in East Greenlandic (Tunu) Tourism Development
This paper examines current actions towards tourism development in East Greenland (Tunu) and the expectations and concerns of locals in Tasiilaq, specifically regarding the possible inclusion of the East Greenlandic hunting culture on the UNESCO World Heritage List. We explore how locals see the potential and impact of the UNESCO recognition on tourism development in the region and its potential effects on local economy, culture, and traditions. …
At opleve (på) stedet
Omtale af ph.d.-seminar arrangeret i samarbejde mellem forskerskolen MAST og Kulturarvens forskerskole. Afholdt på Syddansk Universitet, Campus Esbjerg, 4.-5. oktober 2007.The second PhD seminar to be arranged jointly between the Danish Research School of Cultural Heritage (KAF) and the Research School for Studies in Maritime and Coastal Environment, Heritage and Sustainable Tourism (MAST), this two-day seminar focused on the concept of “place” a…
Cultural Heritage and Ownership
Ph.d.-seminar arrangeret i et samarbejde mellem forskerskolerne MAST og Kulturarvens forskerskole. Syddansk Universitet, Campus Esbjerg, 20.-22. november 2006. On 20-22 November 2006, a PhD seminar on cultural heritage and ownership was arranged by the Research School for Studies in Maritime and Coastal Environment, Heritage and Sustainable Tourism (MAST) and the Danish Research School of Cultural Heritage. The seminar was hosted by the Universit…
Communicating culture and identity in tourism relations. Zakopane as an example
Er turismeudvikling og bevarelse af lokal kultur hinandens modsætninger? Mange studier indenfor turismeforskningen har gennem tiden besvaret dette spørgsmål med et rungende ’JA!’. I afhandlingen “Communicating Culture and Identity in Tourism Relations” er ønsket at tage denne påstand under nøjere behandling med udgangspunkt i feltarbejde i den polske bjergby og helårsdestination Zakopane, en by med en lang tradition for turisme. Samtidig er det a…
Constructing tourism research
Non-human agency, radical ontology and tourism realities
Cultural Analysis as Intervention
Ordering, materiality, and multiplicity: Enacting Actor–Network Theory in tourism
In this article, we demonstrate how Actor–Network Theory has been translated into tourism research. The article presents and discusses three concepts integral to the Actor–Network Theory approach: ordering, materiality, and multiplicity. We first briefly introduce Actor–Network Theory and draw attention to current Actor–Network Theory studies in tourism with a focus on how the approach is sensitive toward heterogeneous orderings. The following se…
Auto-communicating micro-Orientalism: Articulating ‘Denmark’ in China at the Shanghai Expo
Sustainabilities in the Cultural Economy
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Much More than a Song Contest”: Exploring Eurovision 2014 as Potlatch
As economic and budgetary scandals reached Danish front pages in 2014 over the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) held that year in Copenhagen, many bystanders questioned the sense of the event, proclaiming it a massive waste of public money. In this article, we introduce the concept of “potlatch” to explore the valuation and values of this event, seeing it as a “total social phenomenon” in which more than merely economic matters are at stake. Framing…
Steaming Up or Staying Cool? Tourism Development and Greenlandic Futures in the Light of Climate Change
The complex relationships between climate change, tourism, and societal development are remarkably palpable in the Arctic as documented and projected consequences of global climate change have reinvigorated—rather than decelerated—the prospects of economic development in this region. This is reflected in the increased tourism activities to remote circumpolar destinations such as the Ilulisaat Icefjord in Northern Greenland. Drawing from this exam…
Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development
The multiplicity of tourism encounters provide some of the best available occasions to observe the social world and its making(s). Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of devel…
Ant: A decade of interfering with tourism
Bring the numbers and stories together”: Valuing events
We are the Arctic: Identities at the Arctic Winter Games 2016
In this article, we explore the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) as a site for arctic, Indigenous, and national identity building, drawing on fieldwork from the planning and execution of AWG 2016 and surveys conducted with participant and stakeholder groups. We show that although the AWG 2016 event is seemingly a contranational sports competition in the Olympic modality, and thus a vehicle for traditional national identity manifestations, it also c…
Motivations for Indigenous island entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs and behavioral economics in Greenland
Greenland continues to undergo decolonization, the ultimate political ambition being a ‘self-sustaining economy’ and political independence from Denmark. Drawing on a recent survey in combination with ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the connection between political independence and entrepreneurial activities in Greenland. While entrepreneurs are increasingly expected to play a central role in fostering economic change, we are curious …
Lice work: Non-human trajectories in volunteer tourism
This article studies volunteer tourism by following the trajectories of a non-human actor. Based on fieldwork at a Nepalese orphanage and drawing on insights from the material semiotics of Actor–Network Theory, we describe how the louse interferes as an unexpected actor with volunteer tourism at the orphanage. This post-human approach decentres the volunteer and destabilises the host–guest binary while adding to our understanding of tourism pract…
Messy realities and collaborative knowledge production in tourism
In this paper, we draw on a relational ontology to explore what collaborative ways of knowing might mean in the field of tourism research. Using tourism as a prism to explore the messy realities of collaborative knowledge production, we argue that knowledge is always co-created through situated practices. By focusing on collaboration and co-creation of research and based on a discussion on what, how and where to know we suggest four orientations …
(Staying with) the trouble with tourism and travel theory
It has now been 20 years since Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s The trouble with tourism and travel theory? introduced the first volume of Tourist Studies. In the year of 2001, business-oriented approaches to studying tourism were thriving due to the rapid growth of tourism. In their diagnosis of tourism research of the day, Franklin and Crang pointed to the lack of theory and “a tendency for studies to follow a template, repeating and reinforcin…
Arctic Connectivity: A Frugal Approach to Infrastructural Development
As the Arctic is heating up, so are efforts to strengthen connectivity within the region, enhance the connections from remote settlements to the global networks of trade, and increase sociality. With global interest in the Arctic on the rise, it becomes increasingly relevant to ensure that investments in Arctic infrastructure actually serve the people of the Arctic, while promoting industrial and commercial innovation in the region through widesp…
Tourism worlding: Collective becoming in East Greenland
In this article, we explore tourism development as an ongoing becoming-with and in the world. We draw on Haraway’s concept of worlding to describe the coming together of tourism not as a solitary or industry-related endeavour, but as entangled. We introduce the analytical concepts of frictions, companions and string figures to exemplify and discuss what this looks like when stepping closer to the tinkering with tourism. The article illustrates an…
The Domestic Turn in Postpandemic Indigenous Arctic Tourism: Emerging Stories of Self and Other
In this article, we explore how the lockdowns followed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rise in domestic tourism impacted the ways in which Arctic tourism businesses sold and shared their experiences and stories to the domestic tourist–for many, a new and unusual guest. In exploring cases from Greenland and Northern Norway, we are interested in describing tourism marketing and product innovation in times of crisis, using this disruptio…
Food, national identity and tourism in Greenland
This article explores the dynamic relationship between food, national identity and tourism in the context of Greenland, showing how food contributes to identity development and how in turn identity communication fuels tourism attraction and gastrodiplomacy. In the following, we first offer a review of current literature on national food identity and introduce Greenland, an Arctic nation moving toward independence from the kingdom of Denmark, as a…
To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism development
In this article, we introduce the concept of politics of comparison in tourism development, looking at how comparison contributes to shaping and making sense of tourism development in Greenland. Decision makers and operators in Greenland foresee tourism growth as new transatlantic airports are set to open by 2024. To navigate an uncertain tourism future, many look towards neighbouring Iceland, who experienced exponential growth in international t…
Tracing tourism with Bruno Latour: Actor-Network Theory, Critical Proximity and Down to Earth
Bruno Latour passed away October 9 2022. At the age of 75 he was still actively dealing with pertinent questions of human existence on Earth through relational thought and tools he started to develop in the 1970s. Latour’s intellectual work is difficult to classify into disciplinary categories; it traverses the boundaries of philosophy, anthropology and sociology as well as geography and has also been translated by others into for instance touris…
Tourism (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (11 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Law (7 works)