‘The global warming clock is ticking so see these places while you can’
Voyeuristic tourism and model environmental citizens on Tuvalu's disappearing islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20153665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Farbotko (0000-0001-8257-2085, University of Wollongong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-238 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2010.00392.x |
| OpenAlex | W2109191429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 22 |
At a time when climate change is being defined and grappled with around the world as a looming large-scale environmental crisis, low-lying Pacific islands are being publicized in a range of practices as ‘disappearing islands’, and their inhabitants as future ‘climate refugees’. This paper is concerned with the disappearing island as a space in which new intersections between environmentalism and tourism can be explored. It analyzes specifically western representational practices associated with climate change imperatives on Tuvalu, an atoll state in the central Pacific. New phenomena are emerging there such as climate change tourism and the transformation of the islands into showcases of renewable energy. These phenomena are analyzed in order to understand how climate change meanings are being shaped by various participants in the debate. I argue that Pacific islanders are heroized as climate change saviours when environmentalists attempt to locate ethnocentric notions of environmentally harmonious, ‘traditional’ culture on disappearing islands. Further, islanders are objectified in the rhetoric of climate change tourism. Imagined destinies for atoll dwellers as climate saviours are sited uncomfortably alongside voyeuristic gazes turned towards inundated islands. Competing forces of compassion and voyeurism produced in the name of the Tuvaluan indigene are entrenching an iconic role for the Tuvaluan atoll dweller as climate change hero/victim
Archaeology · Climate change · Geography · Global warming · Political science · Tourism · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Geology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Oceanography · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Envisioning the archipelago
Wishful sinking
The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis
Making new history
“We Have Seen It with Our Own Eyes”
Voices of contention
European island imaginaries
International tourism and climate change
A Hyper-Monster at the Gate
Knowledge Management in Tourism
Climate Refugees or Migrants? Contesting Media Frames on Climate Justice in the Pacific
The Critical Relationship between Climate Change Awareness and Action
Calculating ‘climate migrants
Touring responsibility
Young islanders, the meteorological imagination, and the art of geopolitical engagement
The first climate refugees? Contesting global narratives of climate change in Tuvalu
Tides of Belonging and Resilience
The effects of climate change on the geography and timing of human mobility
Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
Geopolitics and humiliation
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
Threatening Dystopias
Critical artistic interventions into the geopolitical spaces of islands
Orientalising environmental citizenship
Holocene Sea-Level Record on Funafuti and Potential Impact of Global Warming on Central Pacific Atolls
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method
Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
Scales of governance and environmental justice for adaptation and mitigation of climate change
The Climate Change Regime
Losing ground? Tuvalu, the greenhouse effect and the garbage can
The importance of expressly examining global warming policy issues through an ethical prism
Tuvalu and climate change
Shades of dark tourism
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
Islands in History and Representation
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
Science studies, climate change and the prospects for constructivist critique
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |