From mining tool to tourist attraction : Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00126729" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00126729 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/from-mining-tool-to-tourist-attraction-cultural-heritage-as-a-materialised-form-of-transformation-in-svalbard-society/4C8EC55A38B4C3E300A22AFB52384615" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/from-mining-tool-to-tourist-attraction-cultural-heritage-as-a-materialised-form-of-transformation-in-svalbard-society/4C8EC55A38B4C3E300A22AFB52384615</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0032247422000092" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0032247422000092</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From mining tool to tourist attraction : Cultural heritage as a materialised form of transformation in Svalbard society
Original language description
In the context of socio-economic transformation of Svalbard, from a place dominated by the coal mining industry to a nature-based tourism destination, the article focuses on how this transformation is co-created with material objects of coal mining remnants. These seemingly marginal, insignificant or even out-of-place remnants of coal mining activity (such as rusty barrels or collapsing infrastructure) have become, by law, a protected part of the Svalbard environment, a cultural heritage. Based on the relational (more-than-human) ethnography of guided tours, the analysis shows that this transformation is co-creating the characteristics of both the past of coal mining and the present notion of wilderness. It demonstrates the process not only as a transformation of interpretations, knowledge and values but also as a transformation of relations with non-human components of the environment. Rather contextual than linear shifts in a biography of the objects, together with the temporality of the objects and their porous character, play a significant role in the Svalbard’s transformation into a nature-based tourism destination.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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