Papers by Roger Norum
While scholars of tourism have examined the manifold relationships between tourism, power and spa... more While scholars of tourism have examined the manifold relationships between tourism, power and space, few have explicitly addressed the powerful connections between tourism and geopolitics. Extending well beyond traditional, state-centric political analyses of physical territory and landscape, geopolitics incorporates the discursive framing of space to consider ''how the world is represented, known, mapped and written " (Dalby, 2014: 2). Ó Tuathail's (1996) seminal scholarship in the study of geopolitics addresses the ''writing of global space " through dialogic formations that mediate everyday geopolitical experience. Influenced by the post-structural and discursive turn, ''critical geopolitics " has more recently become the mainstream inflection of geopolitics in the social sciences (Cohen, 2008; Dittmer, 2015; Sparke, 1998). A turn was seen in tourism studies, too, in which post-structural semi-otics and the role of discourse and power became sites for critical investigation. Tourism landscapes are spaces where translocal social realities merge and rearticulate geopolitical assemblages. Perspectives from geopolitics shed analytical light on how tourism can at once constitute and reflect political discourse, while spatializing international politics as they are linked to global and local tourism industries. Tourism can help re-conceptualize geopolitics as a discursive practice that represents international politics as a social landscape comprised of heterogeneous constellations of people and places. Tourism discourse and practice are mediated by political processes of representation , whereby places become destinations laden with multiple but often recurring and similar histories and dramas (Ó Tuathail & Agnew, 1992). Through an integration of recent work in political geography and tourism studies, this note offers a timely approach from which to examine tourism through geopolitical perspectives to facilitate more nuanced understandings of the relationships between tourism, representation and place-making practices. Building on these theoretical insights, we highlight the significance of geopolitical thought for tourism studies, outlining four complementary themes indicative of emerging work in the field: (1) popular geopolitics; (2) embodied geopoli-tics; (3) environmental geopolitics; and (4) geopolitical imaginaries. Departing from a practical or formal geopolitics, scholars of popular geopolitics focus on how popular culture (e.g. novels, films, computer games) becomes fodder for the materialization of geopolitical discourses. Mundane, quotidian cultural practices are sites for the local inflection of geographical, political identities, elucidating how fluidly ''distinctions between reality and representation, primary
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Despite continued heavy state subsidies, Russian and Norwegian mining operations in the Svalbard ... more Despite continued heavy state subsidies, Russian and Norwegian mining operations in the Svalbard archipelago occupy increased strategic importance given recent heightened tensions between the two nations. At the same time, the industries of scientifi c research and adventure tourism are growing in importance to Svalbard's economic self-suffi ciency. This chapter explores recent geoeconomic changes in the archipelago within the contexts of shifting relationships between Russia and Norway, and of a global Anthropocenic consciousness. Considering the histories of the archipelago's settlements of Barentsburg and Longyearbyen, and of the Russian (Arktikugol) and Norwegian (Store Norske) mining companies, the chapter explores linkages between the industries that fuel Svalbard's settlements, the international geopolitical interest in the region, and the symbolic and real value of resource extraction within broader Arctic geo-political discourse.
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In this paper we examine chronopolitics—the politics of time—as a means of understanding the poli... more In this paper we examine chronopolitics—the politics of time—as a means of understanding the politi-cized ways in which multiple, diverse temporalities mediate tourism practice, discourse and imagination. By linking heterotemporalities with geopolitical discourses, we illustrate how temporality is geopoliti-cally graphed—that is to say, the ways in which time becomes politicized through and in spaces. We do this by elucidating the role that various times play in three areas of discourse central to tourism practice: authenticity, capitalism and ecology. This work contributes to emerging debates surrounding the geopolitics of tourism by foregrounding the role politicized temporalities play in tourism, informing geopolitical practice and imaginaries of place.
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Despite the abundant attention paid to analysing and critically discussing travel texts, and the ... more Despite the abundant attention paid to analysing and critically discussing travel texts, and the attention to tourism practices, a surprising lacuna exists around the industry that fuels the production and circulation of travel writing and photography. If tourism, as Franklin (2008) has argued, is about the ordering of desire, then questioning how the desire to travel is imagined, experienced and stimulated by producers of travel literature should enable us to address how tourism imaginaries, expectations, powers and practices are reproduced, and by whom. In this article, we argue that close attention to the everyday practices of travel journalism can highlight the kinds of ethical positions, compromises and frameworks that shape the texts that circulate, and in so doing reveal how particular tropes and stereotypes are created and replicated.
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In Tourism & the Anthropocene. Huijbens, Edward and Martin Gren (eds). London: Routledge (2015), ... more In Tourism & the Anthropocene. Huijbens, Edward and Martin Gren (eds). London: Routledge (2015), pp. 94-110.
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In Tourism and Leisure Mobilities: Politics, Work and Play. Rickly, Jillian, Mary Mostafanezhad a... more In Tourism and Leisure Mobilities: Politics, Work and Play. Rickly, Jillian, Mary Mostafanezhad and Kevin Hannam (eds). London: Routledge (2016).
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open call for our summer school, convened by COME (Research Group Cultures of Mobility in Europe)... more open call for our summer school, convened by COME (Research Group Cultures of Mobility in Europe) and ANTHROMOB (EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network)
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The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism
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Barcelona: Ediciones Ekaré (2016).
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This interdisciplinary conference explores the meaning, place and value of ‘the wild’ within the ... more This interdisciplinary conference explores the meaning, place and value of ‘the wild’ within the Europe of today and the future. We invite the participation of postgraduate and early-career researchers from across all disciplines, from history to literature, geography to anthropology, environmental philosophy to conservation biology, and beyond.
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The Football Passions report summarises extensive sociological research across 18 countries in Eu... more The Football Passions report summarises extensive sociological research across 18 countries in Europe. The objectives of the study were to capture the emotions of being a football fan and to compare the feelings, expressions and behaviour of fans associated with support of their football teams. Fieldwork was conducted in six of these countries — Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain — involving observation, recordings of heart rates at matches, interviews and in-depth discussions with fans. In the remaining 11 countries, online and telephone interviews were conducted with fans. A pan-European online poll of approximately 2,000 fans was also conducted.
The research revealed that while there are differences between countries in the way fans express their emotions and behaviour, we ultimately all speak one language, the language of football. The research, however, did unearth a number of quirks and national differences that may challenge our conventional stereotypes
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The research revealed that while there are differences between countries in the way fans express their emotions and behaviour, we ultimately all speak one language, the language of football. The research, however, did unearth a number of quirks and national differences that may challenge our conventional stereotypes
The research revealed that while there are differences between countries in the way fans express their emotions and behaviour, we ultimately all speak one language, the language of football. The research, however, did unearth a number of quirks and national differences that may challenge our conventional stereotypes