Katrín Anna Lund

Katrín Anna Lund
University of Iceland | HI · Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences

Ph.D

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July 2006 - July 2016
University of Iceland
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This article examines tourism nature photography as a creative and sensual activity. Based on a collection of photographs gathered from tourists in the Strandir region in northwest Iceland, I demonstrate how photographing nature is a more-than-human practice in which nature has full agency. Much has been written about tourist photography since John...
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This chapter takes the reader on a journey into the wilderness of Melrakkaslétta and follows the researcher who takes on the role of an explorer to rethink the potentiality of a place as a tourist destination. Selected encounters with features and figures whilst journeying are examined. What these have in common, although different in nature, is th...
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In this chapter, we consider the process of walking with landscape, underlining the importance of recognising more-than-human intimacy in proximity tourism. We set out with a small group from Reykjavík, Iceland that headed off on a tour in the north-western countryside to walk together with nature and each other. We seek to examine how, whilst walk...
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Understanding the role of humans in environmental change is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and surroundings. We take advantage of two key opportunities for their computational analysis: mass...
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Understanding the role of humans in environmental change is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Environmental narratives – written texts with a focus on the environment – offer rich material capturing relationships between people and surroundings. We take advantage of two key opportunities for their computational analysis: mass...
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Ferðamennska er ein meginbirtingarmynd hreyfanleika nú til dags. Aldrei hafa fleiri ferðamenn sótt landið heim en á síðustu árum. Í þessari grein er ætlun okkar að rýna í samband menningar, náttúru og ferðamennsku á gagnrýninn hátt. Það er algeng nálgun í rannsóknum á ferðamálum að skýrri afmörkun á milli menningar og náttúru sé viðhaldið í anda he...
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The main aim of this book is to provide a broad view of the issues surrounding literary tourism and to provide a theoretical and practical guide to how literary tourism is evolving and affecting the current Western tourism market. Its scope encompasses a wide array of narratives, ranging from the effects of the classic novel on destinations through...
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This article looks at the creation of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, as an Arctic tourism destination with a focus on souvenir production and consumption. We regard souvenirs to be particularly interesting for investigating the creation and materialization of the Arctic, in the light of how landscapes, in our case the urban landscape of Reykjavík, a...
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When the Icelandic television series ‘Trapped’ was aired it instantly garnered worldwide attention. The main character, a rugged Icelandic man, is presented as being one with the harsh cold landscape. This article demonstrates how visual materials, like ‘Trapped,’ have become extremely important in the presentation of Iceland to the outside world,...
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Creativity is one of the more recent ideas of a range of concepts put forward to capture how culture affects the dynamics of economic processes. In the case of tourism, creativity brings together three interrelated aspects of destination dynamics. Firstly, the intensification of the experience economy and commoditisation of the social; secondly, th...
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As a part of the rising collaborative economy tourism entrepreneurs are faced with increasing demand of providing opportunities of authentic experiences. Tourist experience has always rested on co-creation and everyday encounters and we argue that the collaborative economy can be seen to include multiple rationalities, manifested in improvised tour...
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This paper explores some of the ways in which Northern Lights tourism is composed and performed. In particular, we will focus on the interplay between light and darkness and how tourists, tour operators and various more-than-human elements are engaged in and contribute to affective lightscapes of Northern Lights tourism through improvised choreogra...
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This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives. It compares views of the changing political ecology of a fragile region shaped by climatic and cultural factors. In exploring the mutual relations between new developments in Arctic travel narratives and tourism practices. Green Ice:...
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In recent years, winter tourism in Iceland has been growing steadily featuring the Northern Lights as an important attraction, and since 2009 the Lights have been used intentionally to promote Icelandic winter landscapes. The Lights, however, are mysterious, flickering in their nature and sightings are unreliable due to their different strengths an...
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Tourism to Iceland has and continues to benefit from its geographic position as a stopover between the North American and Eurasian continents and as an extension of the exoticised Arctic North. In that context, we argue that Iceland as a destination functions as a gateway, which should be used as a way of recognising the wider network responsible f...
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This article deals with the becoming of place in relation to tourism. The agency of non-human actors, such as earthly substances or matters underlying any given destination, has rarely been addressed empirically. Our argument is based on the view that a place is an entanglement of ever-moving substances. Hence, our objective is to trace how materia...
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This chapter focuses on the Þingvellir National Park and its changing meanings in the present. Þingvellir has been an important nationalistic symbol for Iceland, the site of numerous festivals celebrating the nation, and a space for recreation and leisure. This chapter interrogates the multiple meanings of Þingvellir from a postcolonial perspective...
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Tourism has been expanding rapidly in the European Arctic alongside growing international interest in the Arctic as a site of extreme, palpable climate change. This chapter explores the idea of tourism ecologies, tracing the development of tourism in the European High North in its colonial contexts, and highlighting the tourism narratives that help...
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The article follows the foodways of mussels and explores the complex human and nonhuman entanglement their travels combine in order to uncover how a destination is improvised. Since 2010 the Museum of Sorcery of Witchcraft in North West Iceland, in a region named Strandir, has reduced its menu to serve platters of mussels during the summer as the o...
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Strandir is a remote, rural region in northwest Iceland. Steady declines in its traditional economic backbone, sheep farming and coastal fisheries means that the inhabitants are increasingly looking towards tourism as a new source of income. They have not necessarily used conventional economic methods to shape the landscape as an attraction. In 200...
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In this paper we take departure from an ontological understanding of the new mobilities paradigm for exploring the emergence of a peripheral tourism destination. The Strandir region is a sparsely populated and remote area in North-Western Iceland, where tourism has become an increasingly important factor in enhancing regional image and local econom...
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This article aims to situate nature, not as an organised and mapped space but rather in the way in which it is lived and experienced. Given the fact that most tourists who come to Iceland claim the reason for their visit to be the natural landscapes of Iceland, tourism in Iceland has focused on so-called nature-based tourism. This is not new becaus...
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This paper explores how landscapes are narrated through the activity of walking. It follows the footsteps of walkers as they traverse different kinds of terrains in different circumstances and aims to examine how the walking body and the landscape as entwined entities shape each other. The focus is on narrative compositions and how they appear in t...
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The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland in 2010 caused havoc to global air traffic. This article examines that event by looking at theories of risk and culture. We demonstrate the fragility of today's mobilities, which depend on unpredictable nature as well as complex technological systems. A new type of risk was revealed by the eruption, which...
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The paper deals with the complex meaning of risk for tourism mobilities. The impact of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption on tourism in Iceland is outlined, as well as the response of Icelandic tourist authorities. A survey in June and July 2010 among international tourists in the country revealed that for many the eruption had added considerable depth...
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Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the ongoing communication that is inherent in any perception, recognising the often-ignored mutuality...
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This paper looks at ways of narrating mountaineering experiences in Scotland. I shall examine how mountaineers organise and abstract their experiences in the form of lists, logbooks, photographs and drawings, and compare to the official listing of Scotland's topography. My argument is that when storing experiences in various material forms, mountai...
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In this paper I examine the senses of vision and touch in mountaineering. My aim is to demonstrate how approaches to vision in the Western context have been limited to the observing eye. During fieldwork with mountaineers in Scotland I learnt that how one senses the environment has to be considered in relation to the actual movement of the body and...
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"This paper looks at how nature is conceptualised in different ways by different groups of people in order to problematise the way in which anthropology naturalises populations by rooting them in various geographical places. The ethnography is based on a fieldwork in a village located in the Natural Park of the Sierra Nevada and the Alpujarra, Spai...
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Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Banks, Marcus and Howard Morphy. (Eds.) New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1997. 306 Pp.

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