Carsten Wergin
Biographic Data
| ID | 453544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carsten Wergin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Wergin |
| SIGNATURE | WERGIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6362-5241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place
The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history: The Walmadany / James Price Point conflict. Carsten Wergin offers a detailed account of how local community members, Indigenous custodians, heritage preservationists, environmentalists, and tourists collaboratively joined forces to successfully oppose the construction of a $45 billion (AUD) liquefied natural gas facility on…
All landscape is collaborative
This article looks at landscapes as ‘collaboratories’ in which the dynamic relationship between socio-ecological crisis and sociocultural transformation can be harnessed to shape a more sustainable future. There is therefore a need for more interdisciplinary and public engagement that can enhance local and global capacity building, social innovation and resilience. This article presents the notion of ‘landscape collaboratoria’ as a theoretical st…
Healing through Heritage
This Forum contribution builds on the ethnographic engagement with restitution projects as places of transcultural encounter. Based on data collected in 2019 during repatriation ceremonies in Berlin and Leipzig, I show how a responsibility for human remains that was shared between European museums and Australian Indigenous custodians set in motion processes of healing, both among Indigenous groups and those working with these collections in Europ…
Antropoceno Sónico - Práticas Sonoras para um Ambiente em Mudança (II)
"Listening "Care-Fully
The article explores a means through which eco-acoustic engagements with the environment can inspire hope in the face of human-made environmental degradation. Based on a discussion of entangled ethnographic experiences in Germany and Australia, the author shows how listening "care-fully" to people and places can foster new forms of collaboration that allow for alternative imaginings of the "buen vivir" and contest the modernist rationale and rela…
Policy in the Anthropocene
This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunction with illustrative examples from empirical data collected during long-term fieldwork in and around the tourist town of Broome in the West Kimberley region in Australia. I argue that for policy research and practice to remain a significant contributor to contemporary research on sustainability in the Anthropocene, it needs to develop more collaborat…
Collaborations of Biocultural Hope
The article discusses two community science projects organised in opposition to large-scale industrialisation in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia. Between 2006 and 2013, a significant conflict took place on the region's Indian Ocean coast. It was triggered by the proposal of Australia's largest independent oil and gas company Woodside Ltd. to build a $45 billion AUD liquefied natural gas facility at James Price Point, 50 km north of…
Dreamings beyond 'opportunity
This article presents the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous tourism experience in Northwest Australia as exemplary for a world different from the teleological-minded futurism of neoliberal market economics. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2011 and 2015, it first outlines how in 1987 the Trail was established at the very margins of the Australian economy. Through its emphasis on the here and now that is grounde…
Materialities of tourism in the twenty-first century
The ‘material turn’, seen across a number of disciplines in recent years, turns, in this issue, towards tourism studies. From its early appearances as ‘thing theory’, marked by Bill Brown’s special edition of Critical Inquiry in the Fall of 2001, it has had renewed impact in the social sciences, even though parts of anthropology would insist that they have always paid profound and detailed attention to ‘material cultures’. What changed, for insta…
Intensifying the tourist experience
An experiment in both form and content, the essay lightly adopts an Australian storytelling style to perform its material as it narrates a road trip across central Australia. Arriving at the Daly Waters Pub in the Northern Territory, the travellers are taken by surprise by the strange décor. It is a place made significant by the multiple ‘authorships’ of hundreds of tourists. Visitors have left not only ID cards, pictures, and signatures, but als…
Musical Performance and the Changing City
Tourism and Australian beach culture
Tourism and Australian beach culture: revealing bodies, by Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt, Bristol, Channel View Publications, 2012, xxxi +156 pp., US$39.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-8454-1285-2
Trumping the Ethnic Card
The 2008 global financial crisis had significant repercussions on small island states and territories. This article discusses the efforts of tourism entrepreneurs from Rodrigues, a subnational island jurisdiction and a dependency of the Republic of Mauritius, to combat those effects by organizing themselves as the group Associations du Tourisme Réunies (ATR). Their aim was to secure subsidies from the Mauritian government to reduce the price of a…
Kréol Blouz
Die französische Insel La Réunion ist Teil der sogenannten Europäischen Ultraperipherie. Musik ist auf der Insel ein zentrales Medium. Menschen berichten darin sowohl von einer gewaltvollen Vergangenheit als auch von ihrem Alltag und ihrer Zugehörigkeit zur kreolischen Gemeinschaft. Heute ist die Musik zudem ein lukratives Markenzeichen im globalen Weltmusik-Handel mit Differenz und Exotik. Wie haben die Menschen auf La Réunion den Übergang von d…
Tourism and Scale
Keywords: commentary, tourism, culture, economy, ethnography, globalization, scale, tourism, rituals and life cycle events, Europe, Germany, World Cup, soccer, football
Projects of scale-making
Scale has recently entered social anthropology as both a unit of analysis and a heuristic tool. This paper highlights the applicability to the anthropology of tourism of what has been identified as “projects of scale-making” by Tsing (2000) and respective “modes of incorporation” by Glick Schiller, Caglar and Guldbrandsen (2006). Because tourism is one of the central industries shaping present-day understandings of what is global and what is loc…
Geographies of Australian Heritages
Collaborations of Biocultural Hope
The article discusses two community science projects organised in opposition to large-scale industrialisation in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia. Between 2006 and 2013, a significant conflict took place on the region's Indian Ocean coast. It was triggered by the proposal of Australia's largest independent oil and gas company Woodside Ltd. to build a $45 billion AUD liquefied natural gas facility at James Price Point, 50 km north of…
Dreamings beyond 'opportunity
This article presents the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous tourism experience in Northwest Australia as exemplary for a world different from the teleological-minded futurism of neoliberal market economics. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2011 and 2015, it first outlines how in 1987 the Trail was established at the very margins of the Australian economy. Through its emphasis on the here and now that is grounde…
All landscape is collaborative
This article looks at landscapes as ‘collaboratories’ in which the dynamic relationship between socio-ecological crisis and sociocultural transformation can be harnessed to shape a more sustainable future. There is therefore a need for more interdisciplinary and public engagement that can enhance local and global capacity building, social innovation and resilience. This article presents the notion of ‘landscape collaboratoria’ as a theoretical st…
Intensifying the tourist experience
An experiment in both form and content, the essay lightly adopts an Australian storytelling style to perform its material as it narrates a road trip across central Australia. Arriving at the Daly Waters Pub in the Northern Territory, the travellers are taken by surprise by the strange décor. It is a place made significant by the multiple ‘authorships’ of hundreds of tourists. Visitors have left not only ID cards, pictures, and signatures, but als…
"Listening "Care-Fully
The article explores a means through which eco-acoustic engagements with the environment can inspire hope in the face of human-made environmental degradation. Based on a discussion of entangled ethnographic experiences in Germany and Australia, the author shows how listening "care-fully" to people and places can foster new forms of collaboration that allow for alternative imaginings of the "buen vivir" and contest the modernist rationale and rela…
Policy in the Anthropocene
This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunction with illustrative examples from empirical data collected during long-term fieldwork in and around the tourist town of Broome in the West Kimberley region in Australia. I argue that for policy research and practice to remain a significant contributor to contemporary research on sustainability in the Anthropocene, it needs to develop more collaborat…
Materialities of tourism in the twenty-first century
The ‘material turn’, seen across a number of disciplines in recent years, turns, in this issue, towards tourism studies. From its early appearances as ‘thing theory’, marked by Bill Brown’s special edition of Critical Inquiry in the Fall of 2001, it has had renewed impact in the social sciences, even though parts of anthropology would insist that they have always paid profound and detailed attention to ‘material cultures’. What changed, for insta…
Tourism and Australian beach culture
Tourism and Australian beach culture: revealing bodies, by Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt, Bristol, Channel View Publications, 2012, xxxi +156 pp., US$39.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-8454-1285-2
Geographies of Australian Heritages
Geographies of Australian Heritages
Projects of scale-making
Scale has recently entered social anthropology as both a unit of analysis and a heuristic tool. This paper highlights the applicability to the anthropology of tourism of what has been identified as “projects of scale-making” by Tsing (2000) and respective “modes of incorporation” by Glick Schiller, Caglar and Guldbrandsen (2006). Because tourism is one of the central industries shaping present-day understandings of what is global and what is loc…
Kréol Blouz
Die französische Insel La Réunion ist Teil der sogenannten Europäischen Ultraperipherie. Musik ist auf der Insel ein zentrales Medium. Menschen berichten darin sowohl von einer gewaltvollen Vergangenheit als auch von ihrem Alltag und ihrer Zugehörigkeit zur kreolischen Gemeinschaft. Heute ist die Musik zudem ein lukratives Markenzeichen im globalen Weltmusik-Handel mit Differenz und Exotik. Wie haben die Menschen auf La Réunion den Übergang von d…
Tourism and Scale
Keywords: commentary, tourism, culture, economy, ethnography, globalization, scale, tourism, rituals and life cycle events, Europe, Germany, World Cup, soccer, football
Trumping the Ethnic Card
The 2008 global financial crisis had significant repercussions on small island states and territories. This article discusses the efforts of tourism entrepreneurs from Rodrigues, a subnational island jurisdiction and a dependency of the Republic of Mauritius, to combat those effects by organizing themselves as the group Associations du Tourisme Réunies (ATR). Their aim was to secure subsidies from the Mauritian government to reduce the price of a…
Musical Performance and the Changing City
Tourism and Australian beach culture
Tourism and Australian beach culture: revealing bodies, by Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt, Bristol, Channel View Publications, 2012, xxxi +156 pp., US$39.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-8454-1285-2
Materialities of tourism in the twenty-first century
The ‘material turn’, seen across a number of disciplines in recent years, turns, in this issue, towards tourism studies. From its early appearances as ‘thing theory’, marked by Bill Brown’s special edition of Critical Inquiry in the Fall of 2001, it has had renewed impact in the social sciences, even though parts of anthropology would insist that they have always paid profound and detailed attention to ‘material cultures’. What changed, for insta…
Intensifying the tourist experience
An experiment in both form and content, the essay lightly adopts an Australian storytelling style to perform its material as it narrates a road trip across central Australia. Arriving at the Daly Waters Pub in the Northern Territory, the travellers are taken by surprise by the strange décor. It is a place made significant by the multiple ‘authorships’ of hundreds of tourists. Visitors have left not only ID cards, pictures, and signatures, but als…
Dreamings beyond 'opportunity
This article presents the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous tourism experience in Northwest Australia as exemplary for a world different from the teleological-minded futurism of neoliberal market economics. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2011 and 2015, it first outlines how in 1987 the Trail was established at the very margins of the Australian economy. Through its emphasis on the here and now that is grounde…
Policy in the Anthropocene
This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunction with illustrative examples from empirical data collected during long-term fieldwork in and around the tourist town of Broome in the West Kimberley region in Australia. I argue that for policy research and practice to remain a significant contributor to contemporary research on sustainability in the Anthropocene, it needs to develop more collaborat…
Collaborations of Biocultural Hope
The article discusses two community science projects organised in opposition to large-scale industrialisation in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia. Between 2006 and 2013, a significant conflict took place on the region's Indian Ocean coast. It was triggered by the proposal of Australia's largest independent oil and gas company Woodside Ltd. to build a $45 billion AUD liquefied natural gas facility at James Price Point, 50 km north of…
Healing through Heritage
This Forum contribution builds on the ethnographic engagement with restitution projects as places of transcultural encounter. Based on data collected in 2019 during repatriation ceremonies in Berlin and Leipzig, I show how a responsibility for human remains that was shared between European museums and Australian Indigenous custodians set in motion processes of healing, both among Indigenous groups and those working with these collections in Europ…
Antropoceno Sónico - Práticas Sonoras para um Ambiente em Mudança (II)
"Listening "Care-Fully
The article explores a means through which eco-acoustic engagements with the environment can inspire hope in the face of human-made environmental degradation. Based on a discussion of entangled ethnographic experiences in Germany and Australia, the author shows how listening "care-fully" to people and places can foster new forms of collaboration that allow for alternative imaginings of the "buen vivir" and contest the modernist rationale and rela…
All landscape is collaborative
This article looks at landscapes as ‘collaboratories’ in which the dynamic relationship between socio-ecological crisis and sociocultural transformation can be harnessed to shape a more sustainable future. There is therefore a need for more interdisciplinary and public engagement that can enhance local and global capacity building, social innovation and resilience. This article presents the notion of ‘landscape collaboratoria’ as a theoretical st…
Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place
The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history: The Walmadany / James Price Point conflict. Carsten Wergin offers a detailed account of how local community members, Indigenous custodians, heritage preservationists, environmentalists, and tourists collaboratively joined forces to successfully oppose the construction of a $45 billion (AUD) liquefied natural gas facility on…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Tourism (9 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works)