Umeå University's logo

umu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Experiencing untouched nature in the great indoors: on the production of wilderness in Arctic resort enclaves
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Geography.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9939-2048
2025 (English)In: Understanding human–nature practices for environmental management: examples from northern Europe / [ed] E. C. H. Keskitalo, Routledge, 2025, p. 160-182Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter unravels the nature–society dichotomy in the context of nature-based tourism. Drawing upon Neil Smith's production of nature thesis, the chapter examines how Arctic-themed resort enclaves in northernmost Sweden, Finland and Norway, as well as Iceland, produce wilderness for international markets. Even though the studied venues evoke imaginaries of pristine wilderness to attract travellers, these touristic environments are a product of globally circulating ideas of Arctic nature coupled with tourism businesses' need to create exchange value. As such, the key characteristic of this wilderness is that locally specific flora and fauna are overlooked in favour of distant landscape sceneries and the skies above. Unlike all other human sensations involving wilderness, the view is the easiest to commodify and is incorporated by the Arctic-themed enclaves into a highly standardised, safe and comfortable accommodation environment. Thus, wilderness is largely confined to an indoor experience in which the visual sensations dominate.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2025. p. 160-182
Series
Routledge Explorations in Environmental studies
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-237706DOI: 10.4324/9781003481041-9Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000701866ISBN: 9781032770574 (print)ISBN: 9781032770581 (print)ISBN: 9781040332870 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-237706DiVA, id: diva2:1953141
Available from: 2025-04-17 Created: 2025-04-17 Last updated: 2025-04-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Bohn, Dorothee

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Bohn, Dorothee
By organisation
Department of Geography
Human Geography

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 20 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf