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Monographs by Carsten Wergin

The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest ac... more The book presents a long-term ethnographic study of arguably the largest environmental protest action in Australian history: The Walmadany / James Price Point conflict. Carsten Wergin offers a detailed account of how local community members, Indigenous custodians, heritage preservationists, environmentalists, and tourists collaboratively joined forces to successfully oppose the construction of a $45 billion (AUD) liquefied natural gas facility on sacred Indigenous land. Tourism, Indigeneity and the Importance of Place is a close reading of Aboriginal ‘country’ and its living heritage. It follows the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous Tourism experience that would have been destroyed by the LNG project, to offer a timely discussion of the sociocultural and political relevance of heritage and tourism for ecological preservation and the wider decolonial project in Australia and beyond.

The fully open access (!) edited volume “Digitising Heritage: Transoceanic Connections between Au... more The fully open access (!) edited volume “Digitising Heritage: Transoceanic Connections between Australia and Europe” is offered in a multimedia format that combines audio, video, 3D graphics and technologies. The book presents new interdisciplinary studies about the diverse manifestations of heritage in digital form, in museums, academic institutions, politics, and history. Contributions span across literary studies, physics, sound studies, law, postcolonial studies, archaeology, migration and museum studies. Its broad thematic range should attract academic experts, as well as students and a wider public interested in heritage transformations in the digital age.

Diese open access (!) Publikation präsentiert bisher nicht analysiertes Material des Heidelberger... more Diese open access (!) Publikation präsentiert bisher nicht analysiertes Material des Heidelberger Wissenschaftlers Hermann Klaatsch (1863-1916) über geistiges und materielles Erbe indigener Gruppen in Nordwestaustralien. Von 1904 bis 1907 betrieb Klaatsch ethnografisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung in Australien und legte umfangreiche Sammlungen an. Die Auswertung vor allem seiner produktivsten Zeit 1905/1906 in Nordwestaustralien bietet neue ideengeschichtliche Ansätze zur Verbreitung und zum Einfluss deutscher Wissenschaftstradition, Verstehenskultur und Forschungsethik. Das Buch leistet damit einen aktuellen Beitrag zur Provenienz-, Repatriierungs- und Kulturerbeforschung in einer globalisierten Welt.

Die französische Insel La Réunion ist Teil der sogenannten Europäischen Ultraperipherie. Musik is... more Die französische Insel La Réunion ist Teil der sogenannten Europäischen Ultraperipherie. Musik ist auf der Insel ein zentrales Medium. Menschen berichten darin sowohl von einer gewaltvollen Vergangenheit als auch von ihrem Alltag und ihrer Zugehörigkeit zur kreolischen Gemeinschaft. Heute ist die Musik zudem ein lukratives Markenzeichen im globalen Weltmusik-Handel mit Differenz und Exotik. Wie haben die Menschen auf La Réunion den Übergang von der Sklaverei in das französische Gesellschaftsmodell musikalisch verarbeitet? Gehören sie dieser Gesellschaft an oder erzählt ihr "Kréol Blouz" eine andere Geschichte? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet der Autor auf Basis seiner ethnografischen Forschungen.

Edited Volumes by Carsten Wergin

Special Issue of Tourist Studies 2014, 4 (3).

A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary appr... more A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction among social groups, commercial entrepreneurs, and institutions. From conventional concerts in rock clubs to new genres such as the flash mob, the forms and meanings of musical performance are deeply affected by urban social change and at the same time respond to the changing conditions. Music has taken on complex roles in the post-industrial city where culture and cultural consumption have an unprecedented power in defining publics, policies, and marketing strategies. Further, changes in real estate markets and the penetration of new media have challenged even fairly modern music cultures. At the same time, new music cultures have emerged, and music has become a driver for cultural events and festivals, channeling the dynamics of a society characterized by the social change, media intensity, and the neoliberal forces of post-industrial urban contexts. The volume brings together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to build a shared understanding of post-industrial contexts in Europe and the United States. Most directly grounded in contemporary developments in music studies and urban studies, its broad interdisciplinary range serves to strengthen the relevance of urban music studies to fields such as anthropology, sociology, urban geography, and beyond. Offering in-depth studies of changing music culture in concert venues, cultural events, and neighborhoods, contributors visit diverse locations such as Barcelona, Berlin, London, New York, and Austin.

The Special Section ‘Songlines vs. Pipelines? Mining and Tourism in Remote Australia’ is concerne... more The Special Section ‘Songlines vs. Pipelines? Mining and Tourism in Remote Australia’ is concerned with the conflicts between mining and tourism and is especially focused on how these industries’ diverging values and development strategies have turned into a ‘wicked problem’ for many communities. The mining boom in remote Australia sees leisure tourism competing against a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workforce for limited accommodation and flights, and in a way that dramatically affects demographics and everyday life in these places. This special section explores in new ways the transformative effects of these industrial changes. Papers collected question the relationship between resource extraction and tourism economies in order to open up wider discussions about the socio-political, cultural and societal role the mining boom plays in remote communities in Australia.

Scale has recently entered social anthropology as both a unit of analysis and a heuristic tool. C... more Scale has recently entered social anthropology as both a unit of analysis and a heuristic tool. Contributions to this Journal Dossier highlight the applicability to the anthropology of tourism of what has been identified as projects of scale-making by Tsing (2000) and respective modes of incorporation by Glick Schiller, Caglar and Guldbrandsen (2006). Because tourism is one of the central industries shaping present-day understandings of what is global and what is local, scale as a theoretical and methodological tool is ideally suited to study this field. Central concerns of anthropological research on tourism, such as the industrys political economy, its influence on the perception of landscapes and culture as well as the problematic notion of authenticity, are reconsidered. Central shortcomings of the globalisation debate, such as a teleologically-minded futurism, euphemistic notions of economic circulation and conflations of mundane and scientific debates, shape both the tourism industry and too many anthropological studies on tourism. In light of the contributions collected, this dossier instead develops an analytical framework that highlights the hidden relations of production in tourism economies and the impacts of projects of scale-making on the construction of landscapes and culture.

Was sehen wir, wenn wir in den Spiegel schauen? Haut, etwa zwei Quadratmeter Oberfläche, die unse... more Was sehen wir, wenn wir in den Spiegel schauen? Haut, etwa zwei Quadratmeter Oberfläche, die unseren Körper umgibt. Als Schutz- und Atmungsorgan ist sie geschlossen und durchlässig zugleich, eine Membran, eine Grenze und eine Fläche, deren Bedeutungen sich erst in der Reflexion unterschiedlicher Betrachtungsweisen erschließen. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Arbeiten aus den Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften, die das Kulturthema "Haut" in interdisziplinärer Perspektive als Organ, symbolische Fläche, Metapher und diskursiven Gegenstand begreifbar machen. Hervorgegangen sind diese Beiträge aus Vorträgen und Diskussionen im Rahmen des Promovierendentreffens des Evangelischen Studienwerkes e.V. Villigst.

Journal Articles by Carsten Wergin

heiEDUCATION Journal 9 | 2023, 2023

The global climate crisis demands of international politics to make planetary health and well-bei... more The global climate crisis demands of international politics to make planetary health and well-being an utmost priority. This essay introduces the concept of 'transecology' as a means to acknowledge this demand in teacher education. Severe biodiversity loss and environmental degradation profoundly challenge ethical and pedagogical standards. The text proposes a closer engagement with multispecies conviviality through which to make protection and preservation of a shared heritage, culture and ecology part of the curriculum.

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Volume 30(1): 123-133, 2021

This Forum contribution builds on the ethnographic engagement with restitution projects as places... more This Forum contribution builds on the ethnographic engagement with restitution projects as places of transcultural encounter. Based on data collected in 2019 during repatriation ceremonies in Berlin and Leipzig, I show how a responsibility for human remains that was shared between European museums and Australian Indigenous custodians set in motion processes of healing, both among Indigenous groups and those working with these collections in Europe. I further argue that ethnographic museums change in these processes from supposedly passive exhibition spaces to spaces of socio-critical engagement. Finally, I explore the decolonial potential of such collaborative engagements with heritage within and beyond European borders that are motivated by provenance research and repatriation practices.

Glocalism, Issue 2018, 3, 2018

This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunct... more This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunction with illustrative examples from empirical data collected during long-term fieldwork in and around the tourist town of Broome in the West Kim-berley region in Australia. I argue that for policy research and practice to remain a significant contributor to contemporary research on sustainability in the Anthropo-cene, it needs to develop more collaborative approaches that cater to the involvement of numerous and diverse actors in decision-making processes. The article outlines some of the methodological challenges this poses, and how to address them.

This article presents the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous tourism experience in Northwest... more This article presents the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous tourism
experience in Northwest Australia as exemplary for a world different
from the teleological-minded futurism of neoliberal market economics.
Drawing on long-term ethnographic !eldwork undertaken between
2011 and 2015, it !rst outlines how in 1987 the Trail was established at
the very margins of the Australian economy. Through its emphasis on
the here and now that is grounded in a collaboration of people and
land and acknowledges diverse worldviews and ontological differences,
the Trail today offers its participants a means to experience Indigenous
culture as different from Western politics and development policies. As a
result, its allegedly marginal Dreaming (Bugarrigarra) leads beyond the
pursuit of economic opportunity and in doing so enabled the defeat of
large-scale industrialisation in the region.

The article discusses two community science projects organised in opposition to large scale indus... more The article discusses two community science projects organised in opposition to large scale industrialisation in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia. Between 2006 and 2013, a significant conflict took place on the region’s Indian Ocean coast. It was triggered by the proposal of Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company Woodside Ltd. to build a $45 billion AUD liquefied natural gas facility at James Price Point, 50 km north of the tourist town of Broome. The community science initiatives highlight particular ways in which the local community was able not only to enter into the debate, but to significantly influence its outcome. This points towards alternate configurations of the political subjectivities involved in this conflict. Drawing on the Aboriginal notion of ‘living country’, the article presents these projects as signs of biocultural hope, that hint towards a world different from the one built on neoliberal ideals and dreams of economic opportunity alone.

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An experiment in both form and content, the essay lightly adopts an Australian storytelling style... more An experiment in both form and content, the essay lightly adopts an Australian storytelling style to perform its material as it narrates a road trip across central Australia. Arriving at the Daly Waters Pub in the Northern Territory, the travellers are taken by surprise by the strange décor. It is a place made significant by the multiple ‘authorships’ of hundreds of tourists. Visitors have left not only ID cards, pictures, and signatures, but also flags, number plates, thongs, caps, and bras. We analyse these traces left by travellers as objects of exchange that signify people’s desire to mark a place and use this phenomenon to introduce the idea of a complementary concept to that of the ‘souvenir’, and which we call ‘survenir’. The palimpsest effect of these survenirs (since none is erased) introduces time by accretion, rather than by chronology. The sociality generated through ‘survenirs’ is not just among humans but among all sorts of things, concepts and affects that assemble to create Daly Waters Pub as a tourist destination made not for, but by, its visitors. It is a materially interactive site composed by them.

Tourist Studies, 2014

In tourism people interact routinely with a wide range of objects and material environments; they... more In tourism people interact routinely with a wide range of objects and material environments; they bring their gendered, racialized and aged bodies into play when performing leisure and tourism.

Introduction to the Special Section "Songlines vs Pipelines? Mining and Tourism in Remote Australia", Nov 2012

In Australia, mining and tourism promise economic and social benefits for the nation-state. At th... more In Australia, mining and tourism promise economic and social benefits for the nation-state. At the same time, these industries seem to short-change the desires, beliefs, politics and aspirations operating at a local community level. This paper argues that the vast economic value that mining and tourism generates competes in a complex way with the expression of social, cultural and political values. In terms of economic value, mining generates enormous wealth for shareholders, corporations and governments. Tourism too can generate much wealth for governments, corporate operators and smaller businesses. The paper discusses the effects of both mining and tourism on the actual and potential diversity of local economies in remote Australia.

"The 2008 global financial crisis had significant repercussions on small island states and territ... more "The 2008 global financial crisis had significant repercussions on small island states and territories. This article discusses the efforts of tourism entrepreneurs from Rodrigues, a subnational island jurisdiction and a dependency of the Republic of Mauritius, to combat those effects by organizing themselves as the group Associations du Tourisme Réunies (ATR). Their aim was to secure subsidies from the Mauritian government to reduce the price of airfares to Rodrigues so as to attract more tourists to the island. The article offers an ethnographic account of how the economic crisis was tackled in a creative way by ATR and how its members put the negative image of a Creole minority suppressed by a Hindu majority to strategic use to achieve a stronger recognition of Rodriguan interests within the Republic of Mauritius.

Keywords: ethnicity; global financial crisis; islands; Mauritius; Rodrigues; tourism"

We argue that central shortcomings of the globalisation debate, such as a teleologically-minded futurism, euphemistic notions of economic circulation and conflations of mundane and scientific debates, shape both the tourism industry and too many anthropological studies on tourism. In light of the contributions collected in this dossier this paper instead develops an analytical framework that highlights the hidden relations of production in tourism economies and the impacts of projects of scale-making on the construction of landscapes and culture.

Keywords: culture, globalisation, history, political economy, scale, tourism.

Scale has recently entered social anthropology as both a unit of analysis and a heuristic tool. T... more Scale has recently entered social anthropology as both a unit of analysis and a heuristic tool. This paper highlights the applicability to the anthropology of tourism of what has been identified as “projects of scale-making” by Tsing (2000) and respective “modes of incorporation” by Glick Schiller, Caglar and Guldbrandsen (2006). Because tourism is one of the central industries shaping present-day understandings of what is global and what is local, scale as a theoretical and methodological tool is ideally suited to study this field. Central concerns of anthropological research on tourism, such as the industry’s political economy, its influence on the perception of landscapes and culture as well as the problematic notion of authenticity, are reconside- red. We argue that central shortcomings of the globalisation debate, such as a teleologically-minded futurism, euphemistic notions of economic circulation and conflations of mundane and scientific debates, shape both the tourism industry and too many anthropological studies on tourism. In light of the contributions collected in this dossier this paper instead develops an analyti- cal framework that highlights the hidden relations of production in tourism economies and the impacts of projects of scale-making on the construction of landscapes and culture.

Special Issue of Tourist Studies 2014, 4 (3).

heiEDUCATION Journal 9 | 2023, 2023

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures Volume 30(1): 123-133, 2021

Glocalism, Issue 2018, 3, 2018

The publisher offers free access to a limited amount of copies via this link:

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Aug9GdSQGhFxh6Z9WhPf/full

Tourist Studies, 2014

Introduction to the Special Section "Songlines vs Pipelines? Mining and Tourism in Remote Australia", Nov 2012

Keywords: ethnicity; global financial crisis; islands; Mauritius; Rodrigues; tourism"

Keywords: culture, globalisation, history, political economy, scale, tourism.

Etnográfica, 2009

A escala foi recentemente incorporada na antropologia social como unidade de análise e ferramenta... more A escala foi recentemente incorporada na antropologia social como unidade de análise e ferramenta heurística. Este artigo centra-se naquilo que Tsing (2000) definiu como projectos de configuração de escala e nos respectivos modos de incorporação tal como explorados por Glick ...

Mosquitopia The Place of Pests in a Healthy World, edited by Marcus Hall, Dan Tamïr , 2021

Extensive loss in biodiversity and warming climates mean that the world faces an unparalleled his... more Extensive loss in biodiversity and warming climates mean that the world faces an unparalleled historical situation of global multispecies suffering. In light of this, it is crucial we widen our discussions about social-cultural change in the Anthropocene from narrow human-centred considerations towards more speculative fields of more-than-human relations. One of the most persuasive methods to account for such entangled lifeworlds is found in "multispecies storytelling," a method that recognizes the human and the more-than-human in onto-epistemic partnership (Haraway, 2016). Multispecies stories challenge anthropocentric narratives that tend to depict the bodies of other species as rhetorically passive resources for human appropriation, whether as consumptive commodities in global economies, or as metaphors and symbols in aesthetics and media. Along these lines, the method of "multispecies ethnography" is a vital tool to study and account for ecological assemblages in ways that aim to highlight and address epistemic inequalities (Kirksey and Helmreich, 2010). Important, though, is that more-than-human relations are not considered a harmonious or romantic endeavour. Rather, often the pressing question for humans in morethan-human encounters is about "how to survive"-a question that is more often than not answered with calls for eradication of non-human disease carriers. Here we focus on mosquito-borne diseases where the question of human survival and non-human extinction has been prominent for many decades. Our aim is to weave insights about the history of malaria and human-mosquito relations in West Africa together with those of a multispecies ethnography of invasive mosquitoes in Germany. Following threads of multispecies mobility, we show how particular human mobility has come to render mosquitoes killable in colonial West Africa. At the same time, we can see how through globalization and warming climates, mosquitoes remain highly active and mobile. We focus on what is considered number four of the "100 world's worst invasive alien species," 3 UNDERSTANDING MULTISPECIES MOBILITIES

Menschen reisen, um Landschaften kennenzulernen und Erfahrungen mit anderen Kulturen zu sammeln. ... more Menschen reisen, um Landschaften kennenzulernen und Erfahrungen mit anderen Kulturen zu sammeln. Das Wort »Tourist« wurde im Jahre 1772, das Wort »Tourismus« im Jahre 1811 erstmals verwendet, um solche Aktivitäten zu beschreiben (...)

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Wergin C. (2017) Tourismus. In: Leggewie C., Meyer E. (eds) Global Pop. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart

The paper presents original material drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a conflict si... more The paper presents original material drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a conflict situation over the construction of a AUD $45 billion liquefied natural gas facility on top of an Indigenous heritage site: Walmadany / James Price Point, at the Indian Ocean coast of Northwest Australia. It discusses, from an emic point of view, the inadequacy of western science terminology to represent Indigenous knowledge about the environment in question. To overcome related shortcomings in assessment processes of natural and cultural values, the paper argues for ways in which western law und science can be better equipped first to recognize Indigenous knowledge as ontologically different but equal, and second to overcome the impossible task of expressing Indigenous world(view)s in modernist terms.

In: Fabian Holt and Carsten Wergin (eds.) Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-Industr... more In: Fabian Holt and Carsten Wergin (eds.) Musical Performance
and the Changing City: Post-Industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States. New York: Routledge, pp. 102-23.

In: Godfrey Baldacchino (ed.) Archipelago Tourism: Policies and Practices. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. ... more In: Godfrey Baldacchino (ed.) Archipelago Tourism: Policies and Practices. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 227-240.

This article discusses musical styles on Réunion Island as a way of representing local tradition ... more This article discusses musical styles on Réunion Island as a way of representing local tradition and Creole culture and identity. My central aim is to show how different cultural actors use music traditions to position themselves within a larger transcultural setting. T’shéga, Shéga, and Séga are terms used to describe a popular music in the Indian Ocean. Séga can be found on many islands in this region. It is always played a little differently on each of them. The article situates Séga in relation to a more general concept of Réunionese Creolisation and discusses possibilities for further ethnographic enquiry into such musical Creolisation. It ends with remarks on how this Creolisation has become audible in World Music contexts, and other translocal soundscapes.

In this paper, I follow the paradigm set out by Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983) that ‘traditions’ appe... more In this paper, I follow the paradigm set out by Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983) that ‘traditions’ appearance and establishment rather than their chances of survival (...) are our primary concern’. I discuss this drawing on ethnographic data collected during my one-year fieldwork on the French Overseas-Department of La Réunion in the southwest Indian Ocean. Focus is on how some local musicians reproduce their visions of culture, local identity and tradition in Maloya.

Maloya is a Réunionese music that has been listed as 'Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ by UNSECO in 2009. In this article, the music is presented as a framework through which musicians describe the cultural setting in which they locate themselves. I argue that Maloya is used in diverse ways in order to mediate Réunionese tradition and culture for different people and in various contexts. As such, the music is nothing fixed, but a musical production and continuous (re)invention of traditions influenced by political, economic, and social interests.

Journal of Heritage Tourism, Dec 1, 2008

Musikalische Inszenierungen von Identität und Kultur

International Journal of Tourism Policy, 2009

Tourism and transport – modes, networks and flows (aspects of tourism texts), by David Timothy Du... more Tourism and transport – modes, networks and flows (aspects of tourism texts), by David Timothy Duval. Clevedon, UK, Channel View Publications, 2007. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-84541-063-6

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2018

This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunct... more This article discusses recent works on the notions of postpolitics and sustainability in conjunction with illustrative examples from empirical data collected during long-term fieldwork in and around the tourist town of Broome in the West Kimberley region in Australia. I argue that for policy research and practice to remain a significant contributor to contemporary research on sustainability in the Anthropocene, it needs to develop more collaborative approaches that cater to the involvement of numerous and diverse actors in decision-making processes. The article outlines some of the methodological challenges this poses, and how to address them.

Musical Performance and the Changing City, 2013

In: Fabian Holt and Carsten Wergin (eds.) Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-Industr... more In: Fabian Holt and Carsten Wergin (eds.) Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-Industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States. New York: Routledge, pp. 102-23.

Archipelago Tourism, 2016

Latest Thinking, 2017

The classic image that tourists and travelers should only leave footprints and take photos is put... more The classic image that tourists and travelers should only leave footprints and take photos is put into question by CARSTEN WERGINs academic investigation of how tourism has changed the world. In this video, he describes his interest in the question of how tourism impacts on particular places and people. In his field studies and during participant observations he has found that tourism is not only a global industry, it also actively changes the world on various levels, for example in regards to perceptions of the environment or approaches to heritage at tourist destinations. This suggests that tourism should not merely be considered a global industry but rather a globe-making activity. LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10510

Latest Thinking, 2017

Are there alternatives to the way Western culture perceives the world? This is a question that CA... more Are there alternatives to the way Western culture perceives the world? This is a question that CARSTEN WERGIN is pursuing in his anthropological research in Northwest Australia. Recent developments and diverse global crises have shown that the idea that humanity can be master over nature needs to be seriously challenged. Participating in the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, guided by the indigenous group responsible for it – the Goolarabooloo – Wergin learnt about their approach to nature that is led by the experience of being part of and drawing energy from the land. He found that this indigenous perception of the environment allows for a different engagement with the world: Instead of exploiting nature for economic reasons, one is governed by the experience of entanglement and 'being with' the environment. LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10513

Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses, 2017

Wergin presents original material drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a conflict situa... more Wergin presents original material drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a conflict situation over the construction of a AUD $45 billion liquefied natural gas facility on top of an Indigenous heritage site: Walmadany/James Price Point, at the Indian Ocean coast of Northwest Australia. It discusses, from an emic point of view, the inadequacy of western science terminology to represent Indigenous knowledge about the environment in question. To overcome related shortcomings in assessment processes of natural and cultural values, Wergin argues for ways in which western law und science can be better equipped first to recognise Indigenous knowledge as ontologically different but equal, and second to overcome the impossible task of expressing Indigenous world(view)s in modernist terms.

Musikalische Inszenierungen von Identität und Kultur

Multiple Identities in Action. Frankfurt aM and …, 2008

The European Science Foundation (ESF) was established in 1 974 to create a common European platfo... more The European Science Foundation (ESF) was established in 1 974 to create a common European platform for cross-border cooperation in all aspects of scientific research. With its emphasis on a multidisciplinary and pan-European approach, the Foundation provides the leadership ...

Annals of Leisure Research, 2013

eASA Media Anthropology network, at< http://www. …, 2007

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

Current Issues in Tourism, 2009

... Page 21. Foreword xvii guidebooks remarkably mirrored the accounts of nineteenth century Brit... more ... Page 21. Foreword xvii guidebooks remarkably mirrored the accounts of nineteenth century British colonial travellers. ... Our trip coincided with efforts by state and local actors to improve tourism infrastructure and to make Rajasthan into an appealing destination for travellers. ...

Annals of Leisure Research, Mar 2013

International Journal of Tourism Policy, Jan 1, 2009

Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2008

LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10510

LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10513

Radio - Interview, May 2013

2009 was a year when Somalian pirates caused considerable threat in the Indian Ocean. Traditional... more 2009 was a year when Somalian pirates caused considerable threat in the Indian Ocean. Traditionally, sailors on their tour around the world cross the ocean westwards via the Seychelles towards the Cape of Good Hope. This year, for the first time, a considerable number chose a route further south, via the Mascarene Archipelago, to avoid coming too close to Somalia.

This picture shows a 65-year-old retired Japanese business man, who had arrived on Rodrigues Island just in time for the traditional regatta, organised each year by the local fishermen. Because he was one of almost a dozen others who had chosen this route, the rules of the regatta were changed this year and teams of fishermen and foreign visitors formed to compete together in the race; an exciting adventure for all of them, not only because his team actually won.