Ecotourism, infrastructures, and the drama of sovereignty on a border island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mara Dicenta (0000-0003-1445-1366, William & Mary, corresponding author), Ana Cecilia Gerrard (0000-0002-6757-598X, National University of Tierra del Fuego) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 298-309 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jlca.12696 |
| OpenAlex | W4387397621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
The Ruta 30 scenic road project in Argentine Tierra del Fuego has encountered significant resistance. In this article, we analyze a public hearing convened to assess the road's impacts as an event illuminating the daily dynamics of the region. In this borderland, narratives about sovereignty create a space of liminalities between pasts and futures, centers and peripheries, and living and the dead. In this context, and with Patagonia's expanding conservation and ecotourism frontiers, studying public reflexivity becomes crucial for understanding rapid changes. To this end, we employ Turner's "social drama" concept to analyze the hearing as a performance enacting authorized discourses of experts, policymakers, environmentalists, industry, and workers. We conclude by discussing "liminal governance" in a border territory that transcends neoliberal and sovereign designs, and "impossible opposition," revealing how the hearing reframed the road conflict as a sovereignty crisis, ultimately mitigating potential disruptions to established settler-colonial structures
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Drama · Ecotourism · Environmental ethics · Liminality · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Tourism · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law
Ethnography in/of the World System
Entre las fronteras del turismo sustentable
White animals
Colonialismo, Antropología y reemergencias indígenas en Tierra del Fuego
Nature, Infrastructure, and the State
Techno-Scientific Promises, Disciplinary Fields, and Social Issues in Peripheral Contexts
Contesting sustainable development in Tierra del Fuego
A cold, hard asset”
Roads and Anthropology
Worlding the end
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
Conservation encounters
Educational Policing
Green pretexts
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |