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Polar Worlds: Arctic and Antarctic Visions

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By showcasing recent research on ecotourism in Norway, Iceland and Greenland, this book presents novel perspectives about tourism ecologies in the European High North that challenge those stereotypical imaginings advertised and publicised in tourism programmes. The purpose of this concluding chapter is twofold: first, provide an afterword of sorts to the previous four chapters by attempting to discuss tourism ecologies in the High North in relation to Antarctica; and second, frame a discussion around what kinds of worlds are emerging in the polar regions in an age many are calling the Anthropocene (Crutzen and Stoermer, Glob Change Newsletter 41:17–18, 2000). The latter signals a need to further cultural research and debate around the contested visions for the future of these regions where tourism is an important node within of larger and broader world-making practices, networks and assemblages.

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    For more detailed information on the history and legacy of the Antarctic Treaty System, see Dodds (2010); Rothwell (2009); Berkman et al. (2011); for a justification the Antarctic Treaty System for the twenty-first century, see Hemmings (2014).

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    This also extends to indigenous polar tourism, as in the case of Nunavik in the Canadian Arctic, for example (see Lemelin et al., 2012), which has been severely affected by global changes and local developments being experienced by local Inuit tour operators.

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Salazar, J.F. (2016). Afterword. In: Abram, S., Lund, K. (eds) Green Ice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58736-7_5

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