[Soasiastudents] Today: Himalaya Presentation

[Keith Snodgrass]

Sustainable Tourism & Everyday Life in Shimshal, Karakoram   Himalaya, Pakistan.

(note new time and location for this event)



by Dr. David Butz, Brock University, St. Cathatrines, Ontario, Canada

 

This presentation considers the implications of everyday  life for the development of so-called sustainable community-based  tourism in Shimshal, Northern Areas, Pakistan. It focuses on the  circumstances of Shimshal's trekking porters to argue that the  sustainability of community-level tourism strategies relies to some  extent on their success at complementing the tactics community members  develop to incorporate tourism into the exigencies of their everyday  lives. This argument is situated in a more general discussion of the  need to avoid abstracting from the scale of the individual to that of  the community, and from the realm of tactics to that of strategies, in  conceptualising and operationalising community-based tourism.  
Motivation to examine this topic was provided by a report titled  Community-Based Mountain Tourism: Practices for Linking Conservation  with Enterprise, which provides a variety of informative case studies,  recommendations and best practices for developing community-based  tourism in mountain areas, but which offers no substantial  consideration of everyday life; no ontological sense that real human  beings have to find satisfactory ways of weaving tourism involvement  into lives already brimming with meaning, obligation, fear,  expectation, desire....life.

David Butz teaches social and cultural geography, and  qualitative research design. He is currently Director of the  Interdisciplinary MA Program in Social Justice and Equity Studies,  where he has taught the required theory and methodology courses.  Professor Butz has a BA and MA from Wilfrid Laurier University and a  PhD from McMaster University. He recently completed a SSHRC-funded  research project which examined colonial and contemporary labour  relations in the mountains of northern Pakistan, and is currently in  the midst of a second SSHRC project dealing with the constitution of  spatiality in Jamaican reggae music. 

Savery 245 

Jan. 30, 3:30 PM

Keith Snodgrass      
Associate Director  & Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center, Jackson School                     
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