Public Seminar: Envisioning Proximity Tourism with New Materialism

How to stay proximate with other earthly creatures?

During the talk, we share our thoughts from a joint journey that has focused on exploring possibilities of proximity tourism, proximate methodologies, and conceptualisations that enable us to stay proximate with other earthly creatures. Our journey has been driven by curiosity on how staying proximate may provide theoretical and epistemological openings to attend to the current planetary tensions and to diversify the ways we enact research – and tourism. By drawing on feminist new materialism, we weave together stories and narratives that can enhance care within multispecies communities.

Outi Rantala, Professor, Responsible Arctic Tourism, University of Lapland and Adjunct professor, Environmental Humanities, University of Turku. Her ongoing research project Envisioning proximity tourism with new materialism (www.ilarctic.com) involves collaboration of tourism researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and ecologists. Together the group has been developing more-than-human methodologies.

Emily Höckert, Postdoctoral researcher in Envisioning proximity tourism with new materialism - project (www.ilarctic.com) at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her research approaches questions of hospitality at the crossroads of postcolonial philosophy and environmental humanities, exploring how multispecies communities welcome and take care of each other in tourism settings.

The seminar is free and open for anyone to join. Please contact admin@onebywalking.net if you want to join!