Nothing Without Tourism
Local Dependency, Time and Nativism in the Swiss Alps
Seiten
2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-172-8 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-172-8 (ISBN)
In the era of the Anthropocene, tourism represents both the threats of ruthless capitalism and the ideals of a good life. Nothing Without Tourism explores this paradox from the perspective of those who depend on tourism in the Swiss Alps, as they reflect on a long history of ‘touristification’ and face an uncertain future.
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.
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.
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.
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Farming to the Business of Foreigners
Chapter 2. Accelerating into the Future
Chapter 3. Nostalgic Scenes
Chapter 4. Navigating Tourism Dependency
Chapter 5. Never Like Them
Chapter 6. An Industry Where One Cannot Grow Old
Conclusion
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Anthropology of Europe |
| Zusatzinfo | Bibliography; Index |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83695-172-8 / 1836951728 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83695-172-8 / 9781836951728 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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