Footprints in Paradise
Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
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2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781800737372 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781800737372 (ISBN)
In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.
The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores the transformation in community and sense of place as Okinawans come to view themselves through the lens of the visiting tourist consumer, and as their language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources. The rediscovery and revaluing of local ecological knowledge strengthens Okinawan or Uchinaa cultural heritage, despite the controversial presence of US military bases amidst a hegemonic Japanese state.
The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores the transformation in community and sense of place as Okinawans come to view themselves through the lens of the visiting tourist consumer, and as their language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources. The rediscovery and revaluing of local ecological knowledge strengthens Okinawan or Uchinaa cultural heritage, despite the controversial presence of US military bases amidst a hegemonic Japanese state.
Andrea E. Murray is an Associate in Research at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard in 2012, was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology and Asian Studies at Hamilton College, and lectured in Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: "We Want Them to Know Nature!!"
Chapter 1. Okinawa's Tourism Imperative
Chapter 2. Slow Vulnerability in Okinawa
Chapter 3. Knowing and Noticing
Chapter 4. Ecologies of Nearness
Chapter 5. Healing and Nature
Conclusion: Yambaru Funbaru!
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Directions in Anthropology |
| Zusatzinfo | 13 Illustrations; 13 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781800737372 / 9781800737372 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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