The 'awkward' geopolitics of tourism in China's 'Arctic' village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5761978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liling Xu (0000-0002-5128-2947, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 796-813 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourism Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-6688 • E-ISSN: 1470-1340 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14616688.2023.2286304 |
| OpenAlex | W4389097564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 59 |
Based on the case study of the 'Arctic' Village (Mohe, China), a popular tourist site renowned as China's northernmost point and the best Chinese site to view the northern lights, this article investigates China's 'indigenising' Arctic tourism that transcends conventional geographical boundaries of the Arctic Circle. It introduces 'awkwardness' as an empirical affect and an analytical concept to chart the way the village's tourism practices and perceptions reinforce, challenge, and diverge from the state-centred account of China's Arctic aspirations and re-territorialising efforts. Under the framework of an 'awkward' geopolitics of tourism, three interrelated types of awkwardness are analysed: embodied awkwardness, identity awkwardness, and demonstrative awkwardness. Each concerns a distinct geopolitical facet of village tourism at the spatialities of the body, village, and museum. The main argument is that affective experience not only mediates geopolitical power in tourism practices but also conceptually reconfigures the nexus between tourism and geopolitics across multiple scales. Incorporating awkwardness into tourism studies advances affective tourism and tourism geopolitics by offering an affective lens to reconceptualise contradictions, ruptures, and ambiguities inherent in associating geopolitics with mundane tourism practices and perceptions
Archaeology · Arctic · China · Dark tourism · Economic geography · Geography · Geopolitics · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Engineering · Travel Writing and Literature · Ecology
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China’s Role in the Arctic
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Emotion in Motion
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The Arctic in tourism
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The geopolitics of China’s Arctic tourism resources
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |