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Johan Hultman.

Johan Hultman

Professor

Johan Hultman.

Experiences of Ecology: (Dis)ordering Nature as a Visitor Attraction

Author

  • Johan Hultman
  • Erika Andersson Cederholm

Summary, in English

By taking the strategic development of a nature visitor centre in southern Sweden as a case study, the article examines practices of nature construction and how these practices are enacted and performed at various sites connected to the centre. The analytical focus is boundary work, i.e. how boundaries separating nature/culture, rural/urban, local/global, history/present/future, humans/non-humans and indoor/outdoor are (dis)ordered to form a visitor attraction. Boundary work is examined at four sites of nature construction: interviews with strategic and operative staff connected to the nature centre, an application for state funding of the centre, the ceremonial opening of the centre and the centre’s permanent exhibition. The analysis shows how the nature centre manifests a nature cosmology upheld by alternate purifying and hybridizing practices, where the result is a visitor attraction offering ecology as experience.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

81-95

Publication/Series

Tourism and Hospitality Planning & Development

Volume

5

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • nature
  • ecology
  • Experiences
  • Fulltofta
  • retro-knowledge
  • ecotourism
  • tourism

Status

Published

Project

  • Natur, kultur, turism och näringslivsutveckling i Skåne

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1479-0548