Etikettarkiv: sustainability

Enabling sustainable visits (2023)

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Enabling sustainable visits in an anthology edited by Mathias Cöster, Sabine Gebert Persson and Owe Ronström.

About the book:

A large number of destinations around the world are struggling with the delicate balance of developing tourism and the hospitality industry in a sustainable way. The challenge for many destinations is to find a way forward, for existing and new jobs, to contribute to economic growth and for the preservation of the cultural heritage. At the same time, with more visitors there are increased risks of negative impact on society, the environment, and, not least, on the cultural heritage that for many visitors is a reason to travel.

This anthology approaches the challenges facing tourism and the hospitality industry by emphasizing insights that can enable the necessary transition to sustainable visits. Through twelve chapters, experienced researchers from different disciplines discuss empirical studies of visits in the broad sense. Their analyses cover central themes in tourism and hospitality studies, i.e. tourism, destinations and destination management, host-guest relations, imageries, representation, and sustainability.

The book can be found here.

Nessling Foundation’s general call

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In the general grant call, we are looking for innovative projects and active researchers that enable or support sustainability transformations that protect natural systems.

We provide funding for projects that contribute to the Nessling Foundation’s mission to seek systemic solutions for an ecologically sustainable future.

In the general grant call, we award funding for three purposes. You can apply for:

  • personal grants for doctoral thesis researchers (for a maximum of 4 years)
  • personal grants for post-doc researchers (for a maximum of 2 years)
  • grants for implementation projects where research is put into practical use through cooperation between the producers and users of knowledge.

Nessling Foundation’s general call is open 14 August–8 September 2023.

Read more here.

Ethnologia Fennica Vol. 49 No. 2 (2022): Towards Sustainable Foodways

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Special issue of Ethnologia Fennica explores sustainability-related transgressions and contestations in various parts of the food system, looking for more sustainable foodways and offering guidelines for future research. This thematic issue draws inspiration from the panel and from the round table ‘Braking norms and traditions in pursuit of sustainable food ways’ discussion held at the SIEF 2021 congress: Breaking the rules? Power, Participation and Transgression. The panel discussed the pursuit of sustainable foodways and related norm-making and norm-breaking practices, asking the following question: ‘What kinds of transgressions are, and are not, made when seeking more sustainable foodways?’ The panel and roundtable discussion built on the idea that the pursuit of a sustainable future involves the breaking of old food-related rules, the making of new ones and the bending of both. The aim of the roundtable was to encourage further discussion on whether and how ethnologists can participate in the pursuit of sustainable foodways. By mapping the past, present and future state of the ethnological study of food and sustainability, this issue continues these discussions.

The issue can be found here.

SuHRFs Sustainable Heritage Seminar

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Välkomna till SuHRFs Sustainable Heritage Seminar, onsdagen den 29 mars, kl. 13.15-15.00 i rum E41 Campus Gotland eller i zoom: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62978235180, se bifogad poster. Denna gång presenterar prof. Thomas Yarrow från Durham Universitet, sin forskning under titeln:

Objects of Conservation: Ethnographic Perspectives on Heritage Practice. 

Welcome to SuHRFs Sustainable Heritage Seminar on Wednesday the 29 March, at 13.15-15.00 in room E41 at Campus Gotland or in zoom: https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62978235180, see attached poster. This time it’s prof. Thomas Yarrow from Durham University who will present his research under the title: 

Objects of Conservation: Ethnographic Perspectives on Heritage Practice. 

 

//Sustainable Heritage Research Forum SuHRF 

New volume of Ethnologia Scandinavica

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Volume 52 of Ethnologia Scandinavica has been released and can be purchased or read online here.

This is written on Kungliga Gustav Adolf Akademiens webpage about the volume:

”This, the 52nd volume of Ethnologia Scandinavica, treats the reader to articles on varied and timely themes. Cold War heritage, vaccination reluctance, different takes on applicability as well as cultural communication and sustainability area few of the topics processed here. All this is accompanied by an extensive section with biographical
notes and reviews.”