Michael Haldrup
Biographic Data
| ID | 3444262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Haldrup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Haldrup |
| SIGNATURE | HALDRUP M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8083-443X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 358 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Planetary Entanglements
This introduction presents the theme of the Rethinking Marxism special issue on Planetary Entanglements, including how it came about. The seven essays, including visual essays, collected herein address ways of rethinking Marxism, inspired by recent notions of planetary or earthly entanglements. They imply a need to adopt a more sensuous and place-specific way of engaging with exploitative social relations and see critical geographies as a distinc…
In the Dark
While ‘darkness’ often connotes an impenetrable opaqueness that renders surroundings invisible to us, the darkness around us is seldom complete, whether our senses are guided by the moonlight, light from distant stars or the alertness of perceptions other than visual. Hence, the ‘darkness’ of the night sky is essential for imagining and sensing entanglements between place and planet. Since 2007 UNESCO has seen an increasing number of requests for…
What Futures
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, two interrelated themes emerged across art, activism, and academia related to the fate of humans on Earth. The first being the demise of “the future” and the prominence of dystopian scenarios for thinking of social futures. The other being the “emergence of the planet” in social science and the humanities. John Urry explored both themes, especially in his later work on the complex interrelationships of car…
Toxic Climates
Planet Earth is toxic. Its atmosphere unbreathable. Its environments deadly intoxicated by the dehumanizing forces of xenophobia, environmental degradation and violence. As its peoples are increasingly on the move to make a worthy living exclusion, borders and conflict is a norm rather than an exception. And – as toxic substances dissipate and spreads through media and circulating representations they clouds the sight to the human beings in front…
The bizarre bazaar
In this paper, we consider the FabLab as an experimental facility for research, intervention and learning. By providing a space that affords close proximity between users, producers, technologies and materials, the FabLab affords a ‘hybrid hub’ for weaving relations between these. Borrowing the metaphor of ‘the bazaar’, we argue that FabLabs, due to their open and nonregulated character, can be seen as offering what we call a ‘bizarre bazaar’ for…
Borders of belonging. Experiencing history, war and nation at a Danish heritage site
Performing Tourist Places
This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that p…
Souvenirs
The semiotics of heritage tourism
Experiencing spatial design
A central feature of the experience economy is that places are designed for experience. Place is a commodity for consumption and it is designed to stimulate growth (Urry, 1995). There is an attempt to boost cities and regions in development strategies' investment in cultural events and institutions while multinational firms construct dazzling brandscapes to provide an entertaining and seductive environment for selling their products. The touristi…
Tourism, Performance and the Everyday
Tourism has become increasingly ‘exotic’, a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore ‘exotic’ holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technol…
Performing Cultural Attractions
Mobile Networks and Place Making in Cultural Tourism
Tourism has become an increasingly important asset for small and medium-sized cities. However, tourism is a vulnerable basis for the local economy of towns and cities as it depends on far-reaching, mobile and unstable networks of visitors, cultural industries and attractions, local authorities, voluntary associations, buildings, objects and so forth directing flows of people, money, information and images. These networks produce new cultural econ…
Practical orientalism – bodies, everyday life and the construction of otherness
In the light of the increasing questioning of multi‐culturalism in popular debate, the focus of this paper is the ways in which cultural/national identities are constituted and renegotiated in everyday, banal bodily practices. Denmark is the case, but the processes experienced in this context are seen as part of a broader European development. We first discuss recent changes in the political semiotics of Europe in which former East/West boundarie…
Material Cultures of Tourism
Despite the fact that tourists constantly interact corporeally with things and physical places, tourist studies have failed to understand the significance of materiality and objects in modern tourism. Like much theory and research influenced by the ‘cultural turn’, tourist (and leisure) studies have melted everything solid into signs. This article is inspired by current calls for a renewed engagement with the ‘material’ in social and cultural geo…
Laid-Back Mobilities
Movement is central to how landscapes and places are encountered and perceived in tourism, yet the role of corporeal mobility has rarely been researched in concrete studies of tourist practices. This paper contends that embodied movement should be viewed as a'performed art'with its own styles and modalities. It examines three different'modes of movement'as they emerge from diaries produced by families vacationing in second homes in Denmark. By fo…
The Family Gaze
Despite the fact that taking photographs is an emblematic tourist practiceand that tourist studies have been dominated by a visual paradigm of gazing, littlesustained research has explored the general connections between tourism andpopular photography. We have virtually no knowledge of why and how touristsproduce photographic images. This article reframes the study of visual culture bystressing the sociality, reflexivity and embodied performances…
Museum communication between enlightenment and experience

 
Performing Tourist Places
This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that p…
Material Cultures of Tourism
Despite the fact that tourists constantly interact corporeally with things and physical places, tourist studies have failed to understand the significance of materiality and objects in modern tourism. Like much theory and research influenced by the ‘cultural turn’, tourist (and leisure) studies have melted everything solid into signs. This article is inspired by current calls for a renewed engagement with the ‘material’ in social and cultural geo…
The Family Gaze
Despite the fact that taking photographs is an emblematic tourist practiceand that tourist studies have been dominated by a visual paradigm of gazing, littlesustained research has explored the general connections between tourism andpopular photography. We have virtually no knowledge of why and how touristsproduce photographic images. This article reframes the study of visual culture bystressing the sociality, reflexivity and embodied performances…
Practical orientalism – bodies, everyday life and the construction of otherness
In the light of the increasing questioning of multi‐culturalism in popular debate, the focus of this paper is the ways in which cultural/national identities are constituted and renegotiated in everyday, banal bodily practices. Denmark is the case, but the processes experienced in this context are seen as part of a broader European development. We first discuss recent changes in the political semiotics of Europe in which former East/West boundarie…
Laid-Back Mobilities
Movement is central to how landscapes and places are encountered and perceived in tourism, yet the role of corporeal mobility has rarely been researched in concrete studies of tourist practices. This paper contends that embodied movement should be viewed as a'performed art'with its own styles and modalities. It examines three different'modes of movement'as they emerge from diaries produced by families vacationing in second homes in Denmark. By fo…
Mobile Networks and Place Making in Cultural Tourism
Tourism has become an increasingly important asset for small and medium-sized cities. However, tourism is a vulnerable basis for the local economy of towns and cities as it depends on far-reaching, mobile and unstable networks of visitors, cultural industries and attractions, local authorities, voluntary associations, buildings, objects and so forth directing flows of people, money, information and images. These networks produce new cultural econ…
Souvenirs
Museum communication between enlightenment and experience

 
Museum communication between enlightenment and experience

 
The Family Gaze
Despite the fact that taking photographs is an emblematic tourist practiceand that tourist studies have been dominated by a visual paradigm of gazing, littlesustained research has explored the general connections between tourism andpopular photography. We have virtually no knowledge of why and how touristsproduce photographic images. This article reframes the study of visual culture bystressing the sociality, reflexivity and embodied performances…
Laid-Back Mobilities
Movement is central to how landscapes and places are encountered and perceived in tourism, yet the role of corporeal mobility has rarely been researched in concrete studies of tourist practices. This paper contends that embodied movement should be viewed as a'performed art'with its own styles and modalities. It examines three different'modes of movement'as they emerge from diaries produced by families vacationing in second homes in Denmark. By fo…
Mobile Networks and Place Making in Cultural Tourism
Tourism has become an increasingly important asset for small and medium-sized cities. However, tourism is a vulnerable basis for the local economy of towns and cities as it depends on far-reaching, mobile and unstable networks of visitors, cultural industries and attractions, local authorities, voluntary associations, buildings, objects and so forth directing flows of people, money, information and images. These networks produce new cultural econ…
Practical orientalism – bodies, everyday life and the construction of otherness
In the light of the increasing questioning of multi‐culturalism in popular debate, the focus of this paper is the ways in which cultural/national identities are constituted and renegotiated in everyday, banal bodily practices. Denmark is the case, but the processes experienced in this context are seen as part of a broader European development. We first discuss recent changes in the political semiotics of Europe in which former East/West boundarie…
Material Cultures of Tourism
Despite the fact that tourists constantly interact corporeally with things and physical places, tourist studies have failed to understand the significance of materiality and objects in modern tourism. Like much theory and research influenced by the ‘cultural turn’, tourist (and leisure) studies have melted everything solid into signs. This article is inspired by current calls for a renewed engagement with the ‘material’ in social and cultural geo…
Performing Cultural Attractions
Tourism, Performance and the Everyday
Tourism has become increasingly ‘exotic’, a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore ‘exotic’ holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of organized mass tourism. At the same time new technol…
Experiencing spatial design
A central feature of the experience economy is that places are designed for experience. Place is a commodity for consumption and it is designed to stimulate growth (Urry, 1995). There is an attempt to boost cities and regions in development strategies' investment in cultural events and institutions while multinational firms construct dazzling brandscapes to provide an entertaining and seductive environment for selling their products. The touristi…
The semiotics of heritage tourism
Souvenirs
Borders of belonging. Experiencing history, war and nation at a Danish heritage site
Performing Tourist Places
This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that p…
The bizarre bazaar
In this paper, we consider the FabLab as an experimental facility for research, intervention and learning. By providing a space that affords close proximity between users, producers, technologies and materials, the FabLab affords a ‘hybrid hub’ for weaving relations between these. Borrowing the metaphor of ‘the bazaar’, we argue that FabLabs, due to their open and nonregulated character, can be seen as offering what we call a ‘bizarre bazaar’ for…
Toxic Climates
Planet Earth is toxic. Its atmosphere unbreathable. Its environments deadly intoxicated by the dehumanizing forces of xenophobia, environmental degradation and violence. As its peoples are increasingly on the move to make a worthy living exclusion, borders and conflict is a norm rather than an exception. And – as toxic substances dissipate and spreads through media and circulating representations they clouds the sight to the human beings in front…
What Futures
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, two interrelated themes emerged across art, activism, and academia related to the fate of humans on Earth. The first being the demise of “the future” and the prominence of dystopian scenarios for thinking of social futures. The other being the “emergence of the planet” in social science and the humanities. John Urry explored both themes, especially in his later work on the complex interrelationships of car…
In the Dark
While ‘darkness’ often connotes an impenetrable opaqueness that renders surroundings invisible to us, the darkness around us is seldom complete, whether our senses are guided by the moonlight, light from distant stars or the alertness of perceptions other than visual. Hence, the ‘darkness’ of the night sky is essential for imagining and sensing entanglements between place and planet. Since 2007 UNESCO has seen an increasing number of requests for…
Planetary Entanglements
This introduction presents the theme of the Rethinking Marxism special issue on Planetary Entanglements, including how it came about. The seven essays, including visual essays, collected herein address ways of rethinking Marxism, inspired by recent notions of planetary or earthly entanglements. They imply a need to adopt a more sensuous and place-specific way of engaging with exploitative social relations and see critical geographies as a distinc…
Sociology (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Business (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Tourism (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · History (5 works)