Nothing Without Tourism

Local Dependency, Time and Nativism in the Swiss Alps

AvDanaé Leitenberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Anthropology of Europe

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Beskrivning

For centuries, locals in many Swiss Alpine villages have depended on visitors’ wanderlust to sustain their livelihoods. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a German-speaking village and tourist resort between 2017 and 2023, this book explores people’s everyday experience of tourism as a volatile yet vital industry, where successes and failures in the past, present and future intersect in puzzling ways. Following ‘native’ locals, migrant hospitality workers from (mostly) Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as tourism lobbyists in this globalized mountain village, it examines how power imbalance among those dependent on tourism elicits different responses to the dilemmas of tourism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology of Europe
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781836951728

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Mer om författaren

Danaé Leitenberg is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at theSeminar for Sociology at the University of Basel. Prior to this, she was Research Fellowin the research group ‘Alpine Histories of Global Change’ at the Max Planck Institute forSocial Anthropology in Halle (Saale) and Lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

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“This is a well-written, engaging, sophisticated and thought-provoking book that takes an innovative approach to the topic of how local populations are affected by tourism dependency.” • Naomi Leite, SOAS, University of London

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1. From Farming to the Business of ForeignersChapter 2. Accelerating into the FutureChapter 3. Nostalgic ScenesChapter 4. Navigating Tourism DependencyChapter 5. Never Like ThemChapter 6. An Industry Where One Cannot Grow OldConclusionIndex