Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Provides a methodological experiment with proximity
- Presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the context of The Anthropocene
- Offers nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic
Part of the book series: Arctic Encounters (AE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds. 
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Outi Rantala is professor of responsible Arctic tourism at the University of Lapland, and adjunct professor of environmental humanities, at University of Turku. Her research has focused on human nature relations and engaged in creating critical, reflective, and alternative narratives on northern tourism.
Veera Kinnunen is a sociologist working on a threshold of more-than-human sociology, environmental humanities, and feminist ethics. She currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu. Her research interests cover dwelling with unruly more-than-human others such as microbes and waste.
Emily Höckert is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lapland. Her research explores the multiple ways in which more-than-human hosts and guests welcome and take care of each other in tourism settings. She approaches questions of hospitality, ethics, care, and storytelling at the crossroads of hermeneutic phenomenology, postcolonial philosophy, and new materialism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching with Proximity
Book Subtitle: Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene
Editors: Outi Rantala, Veera Kinnunen, Emily Höckert
Series Title: Arctic Encounters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39499-7Published: 27 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39502-4Published: 27 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39500-0Published: 26 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-6488
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6496
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 215
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Human Geography, Anthropology, Cultural History, Social Anthropology