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240534 SE MM3 Tourism Imaginaries: Visual Practices and Infrastructure in the Arctic and Beyond (2025W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work
Th 09.10. 15:00-18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

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Language: English

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    This seminar explores the role of visual anthropology in shaping tourism imaginaries, focusing on how destinations like the Arctic are envisioned, experienced, and continuously reshaped. Through ethnographic readings, case study analysis, and critical discussions, students will examine how tourism is co-created by local entrepreneurs, tourism operators, and visitors who arrive with specific expectations and imaginaries. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which visual practices - such as photography, film and social media - construct these imaginaries and influence the ways in which places are anticipated and the infrastructures that can emerge to satisfy tourists' imaginaries.
    Together we will analyse how tourism infrastructures, both existing and planned, influence the sustainability and resurgence of (Arctic) tourism destinations. Key issues include the anticipation and marketing of landscapes, the entanglement of infrastructural dreams and realities, and the socio-economic impacts of tourism on local communities, hosts and guests. In addition, we will discuss the influence and consequences of visual practices for (over)tourism and its impact on local communities and residents.
    The seminar will consist of relevant readings, student presentations and discussions, and will engage with visual and textual materials that reveal connections between social media practices, tourism infrastructures and imaginaries.

    • Thursday 23.10. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
    • Thursday 06.11. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
    • Thursday 13.11. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
    • Thursday 20.11. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
    • Thursday 11.12. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
    • Thursday 15.01. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
    • Thursday 29.01. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

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