Nothing Without Tourism - Local Dependency, Time and Nativism in the Swiss Alps
Series
Anthropology of Europe
ISBN
978-1-83695-172-8
Type
book
Date Issued
2025-10-01
Author(s)
Abstract
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.
Funding(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation (No. 169715)
Max Planck Society
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publisher place
Oxford, New York
Volume
10
Pages
296
Subject(s)
Division(s)
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Name
Postprint_NothingWithoutTourism_Introduction+Chapter6.pdf
Size
451.29 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
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