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Embracing the discomfort: Autoethnographic reflections on culturally sensitive tourism in the Canadian (sub)arcticChris E. HurstThis presentation is a critical reflection of my experiences and affective discomfort as a white settler engaging with Indigenous tourism and cultural sensitivity in the context of the Culturally Sensitive Tourism in the Arctic (ARCTISEN) project. ARCTISEN is a three-year, transnational project aimed at supporting the development of tourism products that re...
Travel, Land and Settlerhood: A Collective Memory Work Studyby Kendra E. FortinChris HurstandBryan S.R. GrimwoodTourism experiences, memories and narratives are inscribed with meanings of land and identity. Activities often associated with Canadian summers, such as camping and cottaging, convey a façade of simplistic living. However, these pursuits are made possible through the historical and ongoing displacement of Indigenous peoples and the a...
Priviledging indigenous voices: A participatory oriented approachbyXiaotao YangandHeather MairIn 2012, Peters andHiggins-Desbiolles, wrote “What is wholly absent [from the tourism literature] …is any recognition of Indigenous peoples as tourists”(p.78).Chambers and Buzinde (2015) acknowledged that “tourism knowledge is still predominantly colonial” (p.1) because Eurocentric epistemologies are still privileged and people from the South continue to be research...