Fischer, Lili

Lübbren, Nina

doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t028421

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“…However, the majority of these feelings are said to be dependent upon vision and the ability to see different things, which relates to previous studies' emphasis on the importance of the visual in tourists' experiences (e.g. Lübbren & Crouch 2003;Burns, Lester & Palmer 2010;Urry & Larsen 2011). Even though it is possible to smell the scent of a bear who just recently got up from the moss and ran away, the experience is incomplete until the bear can be spotted.…”

Section: National Park Nature As An Exploration Arena For Education A...mentioning

confidence: 77%

The Neverlands of Nature

Fälton,

Hedrén

2021

J North Stud

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In this paper, we distinguish, make visible, and problematize how the non-human world (often depicted as nature) in Swedish national parks comes into being through representations in visitor information publications, and what the productive effects of those representations are. Through a discursive analysis, we identify seven discursive formations that concern portrayals of the non-human world. On the one hand, it is represented as extraordinary and sublime pieces of wild and pristine nature—and on the other, as ordinary and accessible. Despite this divergence, these kinds of spaces function as national heritage with an elitist status, which creates hierarchizations between national parks and other spaces, but also between the national parks themselves. North and south are assigned different attraction values and portrayed as desirable in different contexts. The north is wild, pristine, and sublime, while the south is safe, available, and always open to tourists. Furthermore, the material generates portrayals of national parks as places for learning, where the non-human world is displayed, explored, experienced, and taught. The uniting force of these formations is the focus of national parks as places of otherness, which turns them into heterotopian neverlands far away from the mainland of modernity.

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Section: National Park Nature As An Exploration Arena For Education A...mentioning

confidence: 77%