Richard Ek
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 263447 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Ek |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Ek |
| ASSINATURA | EK R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2814-7066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Homo Touristicus Digitalis and the Philosophical Imagination
In this Critical Review, Mekonnen Tesfahuney and Richard Ek depart from and extend their earlier work on the need to take the tourist seriously as a philosophical figure. Following Peter Sloterdijk's work, they argue that tourism studies must address the question of what it means to be a tourist in the digital age anew. There is a need for both ontological and epistemological revaluations of the tourist subject's condition of "being in the world.…
The Case for a Sámi “Trail of Tears”
This paper presents a visual metaphor or figure as a tool for Indigenous mobilisation: an imaginary S & aacute;mi "Trail of Tears." This imaginary trail recalls the largely untold history of the forced evictions of S & aacute;mi families in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century. We engage Agamben's political philosophy to examine and interpret the colonial present in Swedish S & aacute;pmi and argue that such an imaginary trail al…
Regional development, power and topological reach
This paper discusses the growing regional socio-economic disparity in Sweden and investigates two regions’ power relationship with the economically and politically dominant Stockholm region: one region with a negative economic trajectory and the other with a positive economic development over 25 years. The conceptual framework is based on the topography/topology nexus, using the key concepts of ‘reach out’ and ‘fold in’ in different resources. To…
Digital Tourism Communication and Democracy
Political philosophy is applied to analyze the democratic potential of tourism social media. This study shows that while these media have deliberative potential, they also reflect the postpolitical and postdemocratic condition in tourism digital communication. This analysis is illustrated through the discussion of three metaphors: the menu, the stranger, and the tourist-light. The menu represents the increased invasion of lifeworlds by the commer…
Topologies of tourism enclaves
Research on tourism enclaves has relied mainly on topographical understandings of the phenomenon. The focus has been on the ontic, that which is or exists instead of the relational qualities or properties of tourism enclaves. Topographical conceptions thus tend to simplify enclavic processes and attributes that are much more complex than meets the eye. In this article, we make the case for topological understandings of tourism enclaves, based on …
Rereading david harvey's ‘from managerialism to entrepreneurialism’ 25 years later
Rereading david harvey's ‘from managerialism to entrepreneurialism’ 25 years later." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 96(4), pp. 387–388
Interventions in Nordic political geographies
Creating the Creative Post-political Citizen
The aim of this article is to give a tentative illustration of how a creative, postpolitical citizen is imagined and encouraged to unfold within the frame of a city renewal project. As a starting point, the article outlines an exploratory framework structured through the analytical concept of postpolis. Postpolis is a term that offers an illustration of the distinguishing qualities of contemporary urbanity in a principal and schematic way. Postpo…
Epilogue
No abstract available
Culture, Work and Emotion
No abstract available
Sticky Landscapes and Smooth Experiences
As landscapes become ordered according to certain sets of economic, political, ecological or social practices and discourses, other possible orderings become limited in their potential. This article illustrates this with an example taken from the field of tourism and place marketing. The empirical focus is golf experiences in Scania, Sweden, bookable by individual consumers over the Internet. The ordering of what is termed the 'golfscape' is unfo…
Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp
The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's conclusion that the camp has replaced the city as the biopolitical paradigm of the West is as difficult to digest as it is easy to see how it responds to contemporary political tendencies in the world today. In this introduction to this theme issue on Giorgio Agamben and the spatialities of the camp, a detailed exposition emulating the structure of Agamben's seminal book Homo Sacer: is conducted…
A revolution in military geopolitics
Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp
The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's conclusion that the camp has replaced the city as the biopolitical paradigm of the West is as difficult to digest as it is easy to see how it responds to contemporary political tendencies in the world today. In this introduction to this theme issue on Giorgio Agamben and the spatialities of the camp, a detailed exposition emulating the structure of Agamben's seminal book Homo Sacer: is conducted…
Sticky Landscapes and Smooth Experiences
As landscapes become ordered according to certain sets of economic, political, ecological or social practices and discourses, other possible orderings become limited in their potential. This article illustrates this with an example taken from the field of tourism and place marketing. The empirical focus is golf experiences in Scania, Sweden, bookable by individual consumers over the Internet. The ordering of what is termed the 'golfscape' is unfo…
A revolution in military geopolitics
Topologies of tourism enclaves
Research on tourism enclaves has relied mainly on topographical understandings of the phenomenon. The focus has been on the ontic, that which is or exists instead of the relational qualities or properties of tourism enclaves. Topographical conceptions thus tend to simplify enclavic processes and attributes that are much more complex than meets the eye. In this article, we make the case for topological understandings of tourism enclaves, based on …
Interventions in Nordic political geographies
Culture, Work and Emotion
No abstract available
The Case for a Sámi “Trail of Tears”
This paper presents a visual metaphor or figure as a tool for Indigenous mobilisation: an imaginary S & aacute;mi "Trail of Tears." This imaginary trail recalls the largely untold history of the forced evictions of S & aacute;mi families in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century. We engage Agamben's political philosophy to examine and interpret the colonial present in Swedish S & aacute;pmi and argue that such an imaginary trail al…
Regional development, power and topological reach
This paper discusses the growing regional socio-economic disparity in Sweden and investigates two regions’ power relationship with the economically and politically dominant Stockholm region: one region with a negative economic trajectory and the other with a positive economic development over 25 years. The conceptual framework is based on the topography/topology nexus, using the key concepts of ‘reach out’ and ‘fold in’ in different resources. To…
Rereading david harvey's ‘from managerialism to entrepreneurialism’ 25 years later
Rereading david harvey's ‘from managerialism to entrepreneurialism’ 25 years later." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 96(4), pp. 387–388
A revolution in military geopolitics
Giorgio agamben and the spatialities of the camp
The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben's conclusion that the camp has replaced the city as the biopolitical paradigm of the West is as difficult to digest as it is easy to see how it responds to contemporary political tendencies in the world today. In this introduction to this theme issue on Giorgio Agamben and the spatialities of the camp, a detailed exposition emulating the structure of Agamben's seminal book Homo Sacer: is conducted…
Sticky Landscapes and Smooth Experiences
As landscapes become ordered according to certain sets of economic, political, ecological or social practices and discourses, other possible orderings become limited in their potential. This article illustrates this with an example taken from the field of tourism and place marketing. The empirical focus is golf experiences in Scania, Sweden, bookable by individual consumers over the Internet. The ordering of what is termed the 'golfscape' is unfo…
Epilogue
No abstract available
Culture, Work and Emotion
No abstract available
Interventions in Nordic political geographies
Creating the Creative Post-political Citizen
The aim of this article is to give a tentative illustration of how a creative, postpolitical citizen is imagined and encouraged to unfold within the frame of a city renewal project. As a starting point, the article outlines an exploratory framework structured through the analytical concept of postpolis. Postpolis is a term that offers an illustration of the distinguishing qualities of contemporary urbanity in a principal and schematic way. Postpo…
Rereading david harvey's ‘from managerialism to entrepreneurialism’ 25 years later
Rereading david harvey's ‘from managerialism to entrepreneurialism’ 25 years later." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 96(4), pp. 387–388
Topologies of tourism enclaves
Research on tourism enclaves has relied mainly on topographical understandings of the phenomenon. The focus has been on the ontic, that which is or exists instead of the relational qualities or properties of tourism enclaves. Topographical conceptions thus tend to simplify enclavic processes and attributes that are much more complex than meets the eye. In this article, we make the case for topological understandings of tourism enclaves, based on …
Digital Tourism Communication and Democracy
Political philosophy is applied to analyze the democratic potential of tourism social media. This study shows that while these media have deliberative potential, they also reflect the postpolitical and postdemocratic condition in tourism digital communication. This analysis is illustrated through the discussion of three metaphors: the menu, the stranger, and the tourist-light. The menu represents the increased invasion of lifeworlds by the commer…
Regional development, power and topological reach
This paper discusses the growing regional socio-economic disparity in Sweden and investigates two regions’ power relationship with the economically and politically dominant Stockholm region: one region with a negative economic trajectory and the other with a positive economic development over 25 years. The conceptual framework is based on the topography/topology nexus, using the key concepts of ‘reach out’ and ‘fold in’ in different resources. To…
Homo Touristicus Digitalis and the Philosophical Imagination
In this Critical Review, Mekonnen Tesfahuney and Richard Ek depart from and extend their earlier work on the need to take the tourist seriously as a philosophical figure. Following Peter Sloterdijk's work, they argue that tourism studies must address the question of what it means to be a tourist in the digital age anew. There is a need for both ontological and epistemological revaluations of the tourist subject's condition of "being in the world.…
The Case for a Sámi “Trail of Tears”
This paper presents a visual metaphor or figure as a tool for Indigenous mobilisation: an imaginary S & aacute;mi "Trail of Tears." This imaginary trail recalls the largely untold history of the forced evictions of S & aacute;mi families in Sweden during the first half of the twentieth century. We engage Agamben's political philosophy to examine and interpret the colonial present in Swedish S & aacute;pmi and argue that such an imaginary trail al…
Sociology (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Tourism (4 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Economic system (2 obras) · Economics (2 obras)