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Papers & Bookchapters by Hannah Wadle

Eden für jeden? Touristische Sehnsuchtsorte in in Mittel- und Osteuropa von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, 2019

This volume searches for tourism places of longing (sehnsuchtsorte) in Central and Eastern Europe... more This volume searches for tourism places of longing (sehnsuchtsorte) in Central and Eastern Europe since 1945. It so relates different travel-related phenomena that tend to be studied separately: Socialist citizens' dreams of the West, "homesick journeys" of German expellees, the Western touristic interest in the legacies of socialism, local forms of post-socialist nostalgia. The focus of our interest is the relationship, fundamental to tourism, between imagined and real places, between "tourism imaginaries" and the experienced space. We explore how looking at places of longing can capture this interrelationship in its many facets: traditional collective ideal images and individual desires, feelings and affects, landscapes and tourist infrastructures, media and artistic representations of desirable places, political and economic influences that enable or limit tourism.
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Dieser Band begibt sich auf die Suche nach touristischen Sehnsuchtsorten in Mittel- und Osteuropa seit 1945. Der Blick auf touristische Sehnsuchtsorte erlaubt es, unterschiedliche und in der bisherigen Erforschung des Tourismus im östlichen Europa eher getrennt studierte Reisephänomene miteinander in Beziehung zu setzen. Der Traum vom Westen vieler Bürger*innen sozialistischer Staaten sind ebenso Bestandteil wie die „Heimwehreisen“ der deutschen Vertriebenen, Westeuropäer*innen, die sich für das Erbe das Sozialismus interessieren, genauso wie die postsozialistische Nostalgie nach einer bereits weit entfernt scheinenden Vergangenheit. Im Zentrum unseres Interesses steht die für den Tourismus grundlegende Beziehung zwischen vorgestellten und realen Orten, zwischen „tourism imaginaries“ und dem erfahrenen Raum. Wir glauben, dass der Blick auf Sehnsuchtsorte dieses Wechselverhältnis in seinen vielen Facetten erfassen kann: tradierte kollektive Idealbilder und individuelle Wünsche, Gefühle und Affekte, Landschaften und touristische Infrastrukturen, mediale und künstlerische Repräsentationen begehrter Orte, politische und wirtschaftliche Einflüsse, die Tourismus ermöglichen oder beschränken.

Prace Etnograficzne, 2019

This article introduces an ethnographic discussion of the afterlife of a legendary sailing tavern... more This article introduces an ethnographic discussion of the afterlife of a legendary sailing tavern, the Zęza (The Bilge), in a small sailing resort in the Masurian Lake District, Northeast Poland. The existence of the tavern falls within the high times of post-socialist "transformation": it worked from the 1980s to the early 2000s, when it was relocated as part of redesigning the marina. The author suggests that the discourse of longing for the community and atmosphere in the old tavern has mobilised members of the sailing community, local entrepreneurs, and, most recently, new investors to revisit and subvert the locally realized version of touristic "transformation". The article analyses the debate of longing, loss and exclusion among the sailing community, then moves to introduce the owner of an emerging local enterprise that re-appropriates the values of the old tavern community for creating a new touristic alternative and self-gentrify. A closer look at the evolving local gastronomy provides insights into the compatibility of diverse sets of values in a shared place of longing in contemporary Poland.

With a long tradition of a landed gentry on the territories of contemporary Poland, the country s... more With a long tradition of a landed gentry on the territories of contemporary Poland, the country sports a high density of palaces, manors, and estate, even on a European scale. In different states and styles of transformation, they form a recognizable feature of the Polish countryside. This chapter focuses on the specific situation of historical estates in the Polish part of former East Prussia. The author discusses four different models of transforming former East Prussian estates for contemporary tourism contexts: a miniature palace, a cyber palace, a palace hotel, and an evolving heritage palace. The selected palaces challenge common understandings of place-ness and emphasize the symbolic power of the palace. They are places to reframe of social relationships in the new Poland and narrate new histories about Germany and Poland German. The author finishes by reporting about her recent contribution to the storytelling of Pałac Sztynorcki/Schloss Steinort.

Key Words: Country Estates, East Prussia, Heritage, Storytelling, Tourism

This book chapter comprises a slightly extended version of the exhibition text of "Chronicler of ... more This book chapter comprises a slightly extended version of the exhibition text of "Chronicler of Our Dreams. The Manor of Sztynort 1947-2017" that was shown at the Manor in Sztynort Duzy from May 2017- May 2018. It tells the socialist and post-socialist social history of a former East Prussian Manor house. The chapter further gives comprehensive insights into the complex struggle of the German-Polish Heritage Trust (DPS and PNF) over ownership and preservation of the manor in the past 10 years.

This article focuses on different moral economies of domestic tourism encounters in late-post-soc... more This article focuses on different moral economies of domestic
tourism encounters in late-post-socialist Masuria, in the rural
Northeast of Poland. An ethnographic study of three different
tourism entrepreneurs brings to light different, concurring
legacies of the ‘good’ tourism encounter in the area and indicates
a shift of tourism discourses and social aspirations of living
well together in contemporary Poland. In a climate of mutual
stigmatisation and boundary drawing, rural tourism entrepreneurs
mobilise the encounter with domestic tourists to subvert evolving
power asymmetries in Poland and to offer alternative readings to
dominant narratives of inequality in the transforming country.
However, their proposed alternative tourism socialities with the
national ‘other’ do not arrive naturally: relationships in tourism
are shown to be ambivalent and reversible to their participants;
their performance demands much moral work and requires a
degree of cultural complicity or compatibility with the other. The
article contributes to current debates on the moral economy of
encountering in anthropological literature of tourism, postsocialism,
and morality.

The corrected, published version of the article is available here and on request: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2016.1260112

5 minute read.How could Anthropologists approach the recent devlopments of new Virtual and Augmen... more 5 minute read.How could Anthropologists approach the recent devlopments of new Virtual and Augmented Reality technolgies without getting drawn into persisting indeologies about "the future" and with a relativist perspective to the terms VR and AR?This commentry proposes including VR and AR technologies as one fieldsite into a broader empirical framework for setting up an Anthropology of Virtual and Augmented Realities.

Von Fragmenten der Ortsintimität zu einem Konzept des performativen deutsch-polnischen Kulturerbes. Ethnographische Nahaufnahmen von Schloss Sztynort/Steinort

In this paper I suggest a different way of conceptualising German-Polish heritage, a term that ha... more In this paper I suggest a different way of conceptualising German-Polish heritage, a term that has recently been brought to debate in the transnational heritage discourse. I propose that rather than designing and legitimising bi-national heritage sites through the academically constructed historical narrative of a building and thereby imposing particualr historical discourse on the canon of German-Polish heritage, we might consider people's contemporary and past place-making practices as starting points for thinking about German-Polish heritage in more participatory terms. This means casting asside definitions and assumptions of what "German" and "Polish" might mean and developing these meanings organically through engagement with place. I build my argument using among others Tim Edensor's thoughts on performative tourism and Gaston Bachelard's idea that one is the space where one is ("je suis l'éspace où je suis").

This public lecture was given in September 2015 to an audience fo sailors, tourism entrepreneurs,... more This public lecture was given in September 2015 to an audience fo sailors, tourism entrepreneurs, and local residents of the town Wegorzewo, Poland. It was organised by the Museum Kultury Ludowej in Wegorzewo and by the sailing club LOK Wegorzwo. The talk discusses late-postsocialist transformation processes of Polish sailing tourism and adresses the moral dilemmas that privatisation, commercialisation, and modernisation of sailing evoke within the cultural community of sailors in the Masurain Lake District. The lecture engages the audience to reflect on their own identities as sailors. It unpacks shared discourses and practises used to maintain the cultural and social prestige of Polish sailing culture and Masurian sailing tourism.

Edited Volumes by Hannah Wadle

Eden für jeden. Touristische Sehnsuchtsorte in Mittel- und Osteuropa von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, 2019

Eden für jeden? Dieser Band eröffnet ein Panorama des derzeit sehr produktiven Forschungsfeldes d... more Eden für jeden? Dieser Band eröffnet ein Panorama des derzeit sehr produktiven Forschungsfeldes der Tourismusstudien zum östlichen Europa und gibt der Forschungsdebatte neue Anstöße. Mit der Frage nach den Sehnsüchten, die dem osteuropäischen Tourismus zugrundeliegen, wird der Blick aus einer neuen Perspektive auf die vielen politischen, gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen Verwerfungen gerichtet, die die Region historisch und bis heute kennzeichnen. Anstatt die nach wie vor gängige Defizitgeschichte vom zerrissenen, zurückgebliebenen, grauen Ostblock zu reproduzieren, lässt sich auf diese Weise nach dem produktiven Potenzial dieser massiven Wandlungsprozesse fragen. In den Fokus rücken Vorstellungen vom guten Leben, bleibende und sich verändernde Attraktivität von Reisezielen sowie zwischen Ost und West zirkulierende Diskurse und Personen.
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This volume portrays tourist places of longing in Eastern Europe and makes the transnational and social-political importance of desires visible. It focuses on official and unofficial concepts of a good life, emotional ties to places, the creation of tourist infrastructures as well as the circulation of discourses and people between East and West. The political, social and economic upheavals, which have marked the region historically up to now are put into a new light. In this way, the potential of this massive transformation processes can be highlighted, instead of repeating the still current story of a torn and retarded grey Eastern Bloc. The volume contributes to the recent study field of Tourism Studies in Eastern Europe and gives a new impetus for research debates.

Book Reviews by Hannah Wadle

Jahrbuch Kulturelle Kontexte des östlichen Europa, 2020

Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, 2011

Blog Entries by Hannah Wadle

In this contribution to the imaginings project on comics and ethnography, edited by Cristina More... more In this contribution to the imaginings project on comics and ethnography, edited by Cristina Moretti and Stacy Leigh Pigg, I write about an ongoing project with an artist-sailor who has agreed to illustrate a chapter of my thesis on the transformation of sailing tourism in Poland after the end of Socialism. The artist is the author of several sailing hand books in comics form and he is a dedicated sailor and a local cultural activist for the cause of the community of sailors. His perspective on the processes of transformation is thus particularly valuable and his humorous drawings will add additional layers to the ethnographic article. Drawing on A. Schneider, G. Kester, G. Marcus and T. Ingold, I suggest that this kind of collaboration and co-authorship allows a new process of knowledge production that is inclusive and gives local communities space for expression and reflection on the produced ethnographic material, including them thereby in the process of representation.

Ethnographic Diary from Manchester Central Library, 5th May 2015, 10:13-19:45 He smiles, his blu... more Ethnographic Diary from Manchester Central Library, 5th May 2015, 10:13-19:45

He smiles, his blue eyes look favourably at me, the woman with a girlish plait, dressed in a bright red raincoat, holding a saddle bag and a neon yellow helmet. The neon yellow connects us. He is wearing a jacket of the same colour. The police, the man says, has nothing to do with the closure of the library. The library decided that the library is closing. The police only had to step in, since people pushed and security guards were offended. In fact, he feels terribly sorry for the situation caused. I am sorry for all the kids revising for their GCSEs who had to leave early and were disrupted. I thank him for his explanations and he leaves. A girl, maybe fifteen years old, approaches me and wants to know whether he had spoken to me. She had tried to, but it was like talking to a wall she says. She had wanted to know why the woman who needed the loo wasn’t allowed in the library, a public building. I try to raise the issue that the man is trained and paid to act and think as a police man, that he might be mentally stuck in the uniform. She calls him a bit retarded and leaves.... Read more here:
https://iamnotmuchtallerthanashrimp.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/the-protest-or-homeless-in-manchester-central-library/

We should recognise the potential of using Comics in Anthropolgy: As a collaborative tool for et... more We should recognise the potential of using Comics in Anthropolgy: As a collaborative tool for ethnographic research, as a format for producing Anthropological knowledge, as a way of re-dicovering authorship in visual anthropology. Some pioneering work leads the way to a Comics future in Anthropology. (Blog Entry on Comics Forum - Academic Blog about Comics, ed. by Ian Hague et al., published 3rd February 2012)
Read here: read further here: http://comicsforum.org/2012/02/03/anthropology-goes-comics-by-hannah-wadle/

Teaching Documents by Hannah Wadle

This is an interactive, improvisational role play inspired by Paul J. Bohannan’s article “Impact ... more This is an interactive, improvisational role play inspired by Paul J. Bohannan’s article “Impact of money on an African Subsistence Economy” (The Journal of Economic History (19/4) 1959: 491-503). The role play facilitates a performative classroom experience of economic and social change, cultural difference, and colonial power relations, it promotes different levels of reflection on these issues, and it provokes deep learning and the ability to grasp wider theoretical concerns.

Conference Reports by Hannah Wadle

Audiobook by Hannah Wadle

This is a free sample of the introduction to Hannah C. Wadle's forthcoming audiobook "The Moral W... more This is a free sample of the introduction to Hannah C. Wadle's forthcoming audiobook "The Moral Work of Tourismship. Ethnographic Tales about Late Post-Socialism from the Masurian Lake Distirct, Poland" (PhD Thesis, 2014).

Abstract of the Audiobook/ Thesis:
The audiobook contributes to anthropological debates about tourism, transformation, and morality. It proposes the concept of tourismship to rethink identity in tourism and introduces the idea of moral work to understand people’s repositioning in Poland and Germany, twenty-five years after the breakdown of socialism. A question that so far has been marginal in the academic discussion of post-socialist moralities concerns the relationship between being a moral person and living well. This research is situated in a popular tourism destination in the Northeast of Poland, where increasing inequality and social injustice are part of people’s everyday experience. It is in tourism that people are confronted with the tensions between living well and being a moral person at the same time. The author of this book argues that in tourism people find a space to address these tensions. The notion of moral work illuminates the diverse ways in which they engage with the tensions that ultimately concern the good life. Based on 13 months of participant observation and interviews in the Masurian Lake District, the moral debates of four ethnographic settings are explored: How to be a good host in rural Masuria? How to be a good sailing tourist in the “New Poland”? How to be a good German in Germany’s former East? How to correctly engage with the materiality of a ruptured past? To understand the nature of these debates the concept of tourismship is introduced: tourismship transcends the host–guest binary and draws attention to the complex identity work done in tourism. It accommodates the multiple identities that are at stake in these touristic debates. This research provides extensive ethnographic insights into the reordering of post-socialist (tourism) societies in Masuria. It offers a fresh look at tourism in Europe as a changing set of cultural and social practises, the historical legacies of which extend into the present. Tourism as a setting for moral work makes us think about the ways in which people make sense of tourism experiences, and how they integrate those experiences into their social and cultural identities. Ideas of the good life, good tourism, and being moral person are shown to diverge, even in the very communities in which they are debated. Tourism in Masuria provides new insights into a broader social process of moral diversification and pluralisation across post-Cold War societies, showing that moral dilemmas run across society and do not only affect post-socialist but also former “Western” societies. Finally, this audiobook shows that debates about morality and the good life in tourism must be seen in the context of emerging power relations and inequalities in these societies.

Exhibition Catalogues by Hannah Wadle

This exhibition catalogue features ethnographically inspired short stories, conversational notes,... more This exhibition catalogue features ethnographically inspired short stories, conversational notes, photographies, and descriptions of ethnography inspired art work. It was produced as part a collaborative community art, food heritage, and health project with the Charity Europia Manchester - Working with Central and Eastern European Communities.The exhibition was first shown in Eccles Town Hall on 30th July 2016.

Strategy Papers by Hannah Wadle

The Genre of usage plans and development agendas has a strong presence at the Manor of Sztynort, ... more The Genre of usage plans and development agendas has a strong presence at the Manor of Sztynort, a place that has been in development for centuries, and has gone through a particularly troublesome phase of development during the past 30 years.

This sketch of a possible future of the manor of Sztynort was prepared by Social Anthropologist H. Wadle to inform a meeting between a representative of a lang-standing group of heritage activists with regional governors. It combines existing ideas that have been put forward by different agents ( the heritage activists, a tourism investor, local residents, tourists) with anthropological considerations about the place, its material and virtual past and present, its soul, its networks, and its role in the area. It is part of an anthropological intervention around the manor and aims to inform decisions that are taken about the place. It speaks to Politicians, Heritage Activists, Investors, Researchers, Architects.

It is, at the same time, an art intervention that plays with the art and genre of the Entwicklungsplan.

Eden für jeden? Touristische Sehnsuchtsorte in in Mittel- und Osteuropa von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, 2019

This volume searches for tourism places of longing (sehnsuchtsorte) in Central and Eastern Europe... more This volume searches for tourism places of longing (sehnsuchtsorte) in Central and Eastern Europe since 1945. It so relates different travel-related phenomena that tend to be studied separately: Socialist citizens' dreams of the West, "homesick journeys" of German expellees, the Western touristic interest in the legacies of socialism, local forms of post-socialist nostalgia. The focus of our interest is the relationship, fundamental to tourism, between imagined and real places, between "tourism imaginaries" and the experienced space. We explore how looking at places of longing can capture this interrelationship in its many facets: traditional collective ideal images and individual desires, feelings and affects, landscapes and tourist infrastructures, media and artistic representations of desirable places, political and economic influences that enable or limit tourism.
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Dieser Band begibt sich auf die Suche nach touristischen Sehnsuchtsorten in Mittel- und Osteuropa seit 1945. Der Blick auf touristische Sehnsuchtsorte erlaubt es, unterschiedliche und in der bisherigen Erforschung des Tourismus im östlichen Europa eher getrennt studierte Reisephänomene miteinander in Beziehung zu setzen. Der Traum vom Westen vieler Bürger*innen sozialistischer Staaten sind ebenso Bestandteil wie die „Heimwehreisen“ der deutschen Vertriebenen, Westeuropäer*innen, die sich für das Erbe das Sozialismus interessieren, genauso wie die postsozialistische Nostalgie nach einer bereits weit entfernt scheinenden Vergangenheit. Im Zentrum unseres Interesses steht die für den Tourismus grundlegende Beziehung zwischen vorgestellten und realen Orten, zwischen „tourism imaginaries“ und dem erfahrenen Raum. Wir glauben, dass der Blick auf Sehnsuchtsorte dieses Wechselverhältnis in seinen vielen Facetten erfassen kann: tradierte kollektive Idealbilder und individuelle Wünsche, Gefühle und Affekte, Landschaften und touristische Infrastrukturen, mediale und künstlerische Repräsentationen begehrter Orte, politische und wirtschaftliche Einflüsse, die Tourismus ermöglichen oder beschränken.

Prace Etnograficzne, 2019

This article introduces an ethnographic discussion of the afterlife of a legendary sailing tavern... more This article introduces an ethnographic discussion of the afterlife of a legendary sailing tavern, the Zęza (The Bilge), in a small sailing resort in the Masurian Lake District, Northeast Poland. The existence of the tavern falls within the high times of post-socialist "transformation": it worked from the 1980s to the early 2000s, when it was relocated as part of redesigning the marina. The author suggests that the discourse of longing for the community and atmosphere in the old tavern has mobilised members of the sailing community, local entrepreneurs, and, most recently, new investors to revisit and subvert the locally realized version of touristic "transformation". The article analyses the debate of longing, loss and exclusion among the sailing community, then moves to introduce the owner of an emerging local enterprise that re-appropriates the values of the old tavern community for creating a new touristic alternative and self-gentrify. A closer look at the evolving local gastronomy provides insights into the compatibility of diverse sets of values in a shared place of longing in contemporary Poland.

With a long tradition of a landed gentry on the territories of contemporary Poland, the country s... more With a long tradition of a landed gentry on the territories of contemporary Poland, the country sports a high density of palaces, manors, and estate, even on a European scale. In different states and styles of transformation, they form a recognizable feature of the Polish countryside. This chapter focuses on the specific situation of historical estates in the Polish part of former East Prussia. The author discusses four different models of transforming former East Prussian estates for contemporary tourism contexts: a miniature palace, a cyber palace, a palace hotel, and an evolving heritage palace. The selected palaces challenge common understandings of place-ness and emphasize the symbolic power of the palace. They are places to reframe of social relationships in the new Poland and narrate new histories about Germany and Poland German. The author finishes by reporting about her recent contribution to the storytelling of Pałac Sztynorcki/Schloss Steinort.

Key Words: Country Estates, East Prussia, Heritage, Storytelling, Tourism

This book chapter comprises a slightly extended version of the exhibition text of "Chronicler of ... more This book chapter comprises a slightly extended version of the exhibition text of "Chronicler of Our Dreams. The Manor of Sztynort 1947-2017" that was shown at the Manor in Sztynort Duzy from May 2017- May 2018. It tells the socialist and post-socialist social history of a former East Prussian Manor house. The chapter further gives comprehensive insights into the complex struggle of the German-Polish Heritage Trust (DPS and PNF) over ownership and preservation of the manor in the past 10 years.

This article focuses on different moral economies of domestic tourism encounters in late-post-soc... more This article focuses on different moral economies of domestic
tourism encounters in late-post-socialist Masuria, in the rural
Northeast of Poland. An ethnographic study of three different
tourism entrepreneurs brings to light different, concurring
legacies of the ‘good’ tourism encounter in the area and indicates
a shift of tourism discourses and social aspirations of living
well together in contemporary Poland. In a climate of mutual
stigmatisation and boundary drawing, rural tourism entrepreneurs
mobilise the encounter with domestic tourists to subvert evolving
power asymmetries in Poland and to offer alternative readings to
dominant narratives of inequality in the transforming country.
However, their proposed alternative tourism socialities with the
national ‘other’ do not arrive naturally: relationships in tourism
are shown to be ambivalent and reversible to their participants;
their performance demands much moral work and requires a
degree of cultural complicity or compatibility with the other. The
article contributes to current debates on the moral economy of
encountering in anthropological literature of tourism, postsocialism,
and morality.

The corrected, published version of the article is available here and on request: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2016.1260112

5 minute read.How could Anthropologists approach the recent devlopments of new Virtual and Augmen... more 5 minute read.How could Anthropologists approach the recent devlopments of new Virtual and Augmented Reality technolgies without getting drawn into persisting indeologies about "the future" and with a relativist perspective to the terms VR and AR?This commentry proposes including VR and AR technologies as one fieldsite into a broader empirical framework for setting up an Anthropology of Virtual and Augmented Realities.

Von Fragmenten der Ortsintimität zu einem Konzept des performativen deutsch-polnischen Kulturerbes. Ethnographische Nahaufnahmen von Schloss Sztynort/Steinort

In this paper I suggest a different way of conceptualising German-Polish heritage, a term that ha... more In this paper I suggest a different way of conceptualising German-Polish heritage, a term that has recently been brought to debate in the transnational heritage discourse. I propose that rather than designing and legitimising bi-national heritage sites through the academically constructed historical narrative of a building and thereby imposing particualr historical discourse on the canon of German-Polish heritage, we might consider people's contemporary and past place-making practices as starting points for thinking about German-Polish heritage in more participatory terms. This means casting asside definitions and assumptions of what "German" and "Polish" might mean and developing these meanings organically through engagement with place. I build my argument using among others Tim Edensor's thoughts on performative tourism and Gaston Bachelard's idea that one is the space where one is ("je suis l'éspace où je suis").

This public lecture was given in September 2015 to an audience fo sailors, tourism entrepreneurs,... more This public lecture was given in September 2015 to an audience fo sailors, tourism entrepreneurs, and local residents of the town Wegorzewo, Poland. It was organised by the Museum Kultury Ludowej in Wegorzewo and by the sailing club LOK Wegorzwo. The talk discusses late-postsocialist transformation processes of Polish sailing tourism and adresses the moral dilemmas that privatisation, commercialisation, and modernisation of sailing evoke within the cultural community of sailors in the Masurain Lake District. The lecture engages the audience to reflect on their own identities as sailors. It unpacks shared discourses and practises used to maintain the cultural and social prestige of Polish sailing culture and Masurian sailing tourism.

Eden für jeden. Touristische Sehnsuchtsorte in Mittel- und Osteuropa von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, 2019

Eden für jeden? Dieser Band eröffnet ein Panorama des derzeit sehr produktiven Forschungsfeldes d... more Eden für jeden? Dieser Band eröffnet ein Panorama des derzeit sehr produktiven Forschungsfeldes der Tourismusstudien zum östlichen Europa und gibt der Forschungsdebatte neue Anstöße. Mit der Frage nach den Sehnsüchten, die dem osteuropäischen Tourismus zugrundeliegen, wird der Blick aus einer neuen Perspektive auf die vielen politischen, gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen Verwerfungen gerichtet, die die Region historisch und bis heute kennzeichnen. Anstatt die nach wie vor gängige Defizitgeschichte vom zerrissenen, zurückgebliebenen, grauen Ostblock zu reproduzieren, lässt sich auf diese Weise nach dem produktiven Potenzial dieser massiven Wandlungsprozesse fragen. In den Fokus rücken Vorstellungen vom guten Leben, bleibende und sich verändernde Attraktivität von Reisezielen sowie zwischen Ost und West zirkulierende Diskurse und Personen.
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This volume portrays tourist places of longing in Eastern Europe and makes the transnational and social-political importance of desires visible. It focuses on official and unofficial concepts of a good life, emotional ties to places, the creation of tourist infrastructures as well as the circulation of discourses and people between East and West. The political, social and economic upheavals, which have marked the region historically up to now are put into a new light. In this way, the potential of this massive transformation processes can be highlighted, instead of repeating the still current story of a torn and retarded grey Eastern Bloc. The volume contributes to the recent study field of Tourism Studies in Eastern Europe and gives a new impetus for research debates.

In this contribution to the imaginings project on comics and ethnography, edited by Cristina More... more In this contribution to the imaginings project on comics and ethnography, edited by Cristina Moretti and Stacy Leigh Pigg, I write about an ongoing project with an artist-sailor who has agreed to illustrate a chapter of my thesis on the transformation of sailing tourism in Poland after the end of Socialism. The artist is the author of several sailing hand books in comics form and he is a dedicated sailor and a local cultural activist for the cause of the community of sailors. His perspective on the processes of transformation is thus particularly valuable and his humorous drawings will add additional layers to the ethnographic article. Drawing on A. Schneider, G. Kester, G. Marcus and T. Ingold, I suggest that this kind of collaboration and co-authorship allows a new process of knowledge production that is inclusive and gives local communities space for expression and reflection on the produced ethnographic material, including them thereby in the process of representation.

Ethnographic Diary from Manchester Central Library, 5th May 2015, 10:13-19:45 He smiles, his blu... more Ethnographic Diary from Manchester Central Library, 5th May 2015, 10:13-19:45

He smiles, his blue eyes look favourably at me, the woman with a girlish plait, dressed in a bright red raincoat, holding a saddle bag and a neon yellow helmet. The neon yellow connects us. He is wearing a jacket of the same colour. The police, the man says, has nothing to do with the closure of the library. The library decided that the library is closing. The police only had to step in, since people pushed and security guards were offended. In fact, he feels terribly sorry for the situation caused. I am sorry for all the kids revising for their GCSEs who had to leave early and were disrupted. I thank him for his explanations and he leaves. A girl, maybe fifteen years old, approaches me and wants to know whether he had spoken to me. She had tried to, but it was like talking to a wall she says. She had wanted to know why the woman who needed the loo wasn’t allowed in the library, a public building. I try to raise the issue that the man is trained and paid to act and think as a police man, that he might be mentally stuck in the uniform. She calls him a bit retarded and leaves.... Read more here:
https://iamnotmuchtallerthanashrimp.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/the-protest-or-homeless-in-manchester-central-library/

We should recognise the potential of using Comics in Anthropolgy: As a collaborative tool for et... more We should recognise the potential of using Comics in Anthropolgy: As a collaborative tool for ethnographic research, as a format for producing Anthropological knowledge, as a way of re-dicovering authorship in visual anthropology. Some pioneering work leads the way to a Comics future in Anthropology. (Blog Entry on Comics Forum - Academic Blog about Comics, ed. by Ian Hague et al., published 3rd February 2012)
Read here: read further here: http://comicsforum.org/2012/02/03/anthropology-goes-comics-by-hannah-wadle/

This is an interactive, improvisational role play inspired by Paul J. Bohannan’s article “Impact ... more This is an interactive, improvisational role play inspired by Paul J. Bohannan’s article “Impact of money on an African Subsistence Economy” (The Journal of Economic History (19/4) 1959: 491-503). The role play facilitates a performative classroom experience of economic and social change, cultural difference, and colonial power relations, it promotes different levels of reflection on these issues, and it provokes deep learning and the ability to grasp wider theoretical concerns.

This is a free sample of the introduction to Hannah C. Wadle's forthcoming audiobook "The Moral W... more This is a free sample of the introduction to Hannah C. Wadle's forthcoming audiobook "The Moral Work of Tourismship. Ethnographic Tales about Late Post-Socialism from the Masurian Lake Distirct, Poland" (PhD Thesis, 2014).

Abstract of the Audiobook/ Thesis:
The audiobook contributes to anthropological debates about tourism, transformation, and morality. It proposes the concept of tourismship to rethink identity in tourism and introduces the idea of moral work to understand people’s repositioning in Poland and Germany, twenty-five years after the breakdown of socialism. A question that so far has been marginal in the academic discussion of post-socialist moralities concerns the relationship between being a moral person and living well. This research is situated in a popular tourism destination in the Northeast of Poland, where increasing inequality and social injustice are part of people’s everyday experience. It is in tourism that people are confronted with the tensions between living well and being a moral person at the same time. The author of this book argues that in tourism people find a space to address these tensions. The notion of moral work illuminates the diverse ways in which they engage with the tensions that ultimately concern the good life. Based on 13 months of participant observation and interviews in the Masurian Lake District, the moral debates of four ethnographic settings are explored: How to be a good host in rural Masuria? How to be a good sailing tourist in the “New Poland”? How to be a good German in Germany’s former East? How to correctly engage with the materiality of a ruptured past? To understand the nature of these debates the concept of tourismship is introduced: tourismship transcends the host–guest binary and draws attention to the complex identity work done in tourism. It accommodates the multiple identities that are at stake in these touristic debates. This research provides extensive ethnographic insights into the reordering of post-socialist (tourism) societies in Masuria. It offers a fresh look at tourism in Europe as a changing set of cultural and social practises, the historical legacies of which extend into the present. Tourism as a setting for moral work makes us think about the ways in which people make sense of tourism experiences, and how they integrate those experiences into their social and cultural identities. Ideas of the good life, good tourism, and being moral person are shown to diverge, even in the very communities in which they are debated. Tourism in Masuria provides new insights into a broader social process of moral diversification and pluralisation across post-Cold War societies, showing that moral dilemmas run across society and do not only affect post-socialist but also former “Western” societies. Finally, this audiobook shows that debates about morality and the good life in tourism must be seen in the context of emerging power relations and inequalities in these societies.

This exhibition catalogue features ethnographically inspired short stories, conversational notes,... more This exhibition catalogue features ethnographically inspired short stories, conversational notes, photographies, and descriptions of ethnography inspired art work. It was produced as part a collaborative community art, food heritage, and health project with the Charity Europia Manchester - Working with Central and Eastern European Communities.The exhibition was first shown in Eccles Town Hall on 30th July 2016.

The Genre of usage plans and development agendas has a strong presence at the Manor of Sztynort, ... more The Genre of usage plans and development agendas has a strong presence at the Manor of Sztynort, a place that has been in development for centuries, and has gone through a particularly troublesome phase of development during the past 30 years.

This sketch of a possible future of the manor of Sztynort was prepared by Social Anthropologist H. Wadle to inform a meeting between a representative of a lang-standing group of heritage activists with regional governors. It combines existing ideas that have been put forward by different agents ( the heritage activists, a tourism investor, local residents, tourists) with anthropological considerations about the place, its material and virtual past and present, its soul, its networks, and its role in the area. It is part of an anthropological intervention around the manor and aims to inform decisions that are taken about the place. It speaks to Politicians, Heritage Activists, Investors, Researchers, Architects.

It is, at the same time, an art intervention that plays with the art and genre of the Entwicklungsplan.

This report offers a new perspective on the situation of Early Career Researchers. It proposes to... more This report offers a new perspective on the situation of Early Career Researchers. It proposes to acknowledge different liminal experieces of Early Career Researchers and offers suggestions on how to foster those experiences of intellectual and social liminality that drive research and innovate, while reducing those structural and social forms of liminality that harm productivity, mental health, and self-fulfilment.

Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit touristischen Sehnsuchtsorten als Diskursräume für subalterne... more Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit touristischen Sehnsuchtsorten als Diskursräume für subalterne Transformationskritik im spätpostsozialistischen Polen. Im Fokus der ethnographischen Diskussion stehen sozial oder kulturell marginalisierte lokale und touristische Bevölkerungen eines Ferienortes in Nordmasuren und ihr Umgang mit aktuellen Modernisierungs-und Gentrifizierungsprozessen. Für jene Bevölkerungen spielt die ehemalige Seglertaverne des Dorfes eine wichtige Rolle. Sie fungiert als Sehnsuchtsort, durch den sie ihren Unmut an den gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen ausdrücken können, und durch den sie sich selbst weiterhin lokal verorten können. Für die junge Kleinunternehmerin Iwona wird der Sehnsuchtsort der alten Seglertaverne zur zentralen moralischen und emotionalen Ressource für die Entwicklung ihres eignen lokalen Unternehmens. Die alte " Zęza " stellt für sie einen alternativen Idealtypus des guten Tourismus dar und gibt der Unternehmerin das Selbstvertrauen und Durchhaltevermögen, sich gegen das lokale Tourismusmonopol durchzusetzen. Aus einem Sehnsuchtsort der Vergangenheit entwickelt die junge Frau einen neuen Sehnsuchtsort, der eine Alternative (oder Ergänzung) zur vorherrschenden " gereinigten " touristischen Moderne anbietet und damit gleichzeitig auch neuentstehende, unbefriedigte touristische Sehnsüchte nach lokalem Flair, dem Ländlichen, und Authentizität wahr macht. Der Artikel beschäftigt sich weiterhin mit der Frage, welche Sehnsüchte im spätsozialistischen Polen miteinander kompatibel sind, und erörtert die Grenzen von neuen Sehnsuchtsorten in Masuren. Das Tourismusunternehmen von Iwona deutet auf zwei großen Sehnsüchten im gegenwärtigen Polen hin: auf die Sehnsucht nach kultureller Intimität, Partizipation und Selbstbestimmung auf der einen Seite und nach bestimmten kulturellen Grenzen auf der anderen.