CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.42 on Thursday, November 21. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.
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What future for tourism places in renewable energy transitions?
Abstract:
In renewable energy transitions, tourist places are reconfigured to make space for renewable energy infrastructure. Renewable energy projects provoke diverging social imaginaries amongst those involved in the politics of tourism placemaking that symbolically and materially produce the sustainable futures of destinations. How is tourism to be understood as a component of sustainable futures amidst this complexity? In this presentation, I explore this matter in relation to research on experiences of wind power infrastructure in natural areas of Sweden. Stakeholders make different senses of wind turbines in sparsely populated area. Using assemblage thinking, diverse possibilities for envisioning and organizing the sustainable future of destinations in renewable energy transitions are revealed. Assemblage thinking focuses on the capacities of spatial constituents to interact and produce multiple ‘possibility space’, making visible the relationship between social imaginaries of renewable energy futures and their material manifestation in tourism spaces of the Anthropocene.
Keywords: Renewable energy, tourism placemaking, assemblage thinking, Sweden, landscape
Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
Date/Time: Thursday 21 November 2024 | 18:30-20:00 (JST)
Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
Language: English
Capacity: 50 persons
Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
Speaker: Dr. Solène Prince
Bio:
Solène is Associate Professor in tourism studies at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University (Kalmar, Sweden). She teaches various topics, including tourism theory, sustainable tourism, and research methods. Her research centers on the lived experiences of people in the tourism system, with a focus on rural tourism. Her doctoral dissertation explored the intersection of tourist and local spaces, and she later expanded her work to include ancestral tourism and tourism in renewable energy transitions. Solène’s work, published in journals like Tourism Geographies, Landscape Research and Journal of Sustainable Tourism, explores themes such as Nordic landscapes and tourist perceptions of wind turbines. She is the co-editor of Islandscapes and Tourism and serves as associate editor of Tourism Geographies. Solène also collaborates with stakeholders in Sweden on tourism research projects involving visitor surveys and workshops.
Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
Registration:
Please register at the URL below.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Sz8DLCISR-0RmPAJW7zuw
Contact:
Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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