Tourism encounters and controversies : ontological politics of tourism development / edited by Gunnar Thoŕ Joh́annesson, Carina Ren, Rene ́van der Duim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tourism encounters, controversies and ontologies / Gunnar Thoŕ Joh́annesson, Carina Ren and Rene ́van der Duim -- Shaping money and relationships in touristic Cuba / Valerio Simoni -- Reef controversies : the case of Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia / Senna Middelveld, Rene ́van der Duim and Rico Lie -- Entrepreneurship and controversies of tourism development / Anniken Førde -- On crying "controversy" and dealing with the consequences : mapping the new Nordic food phenomenon / Anders Kristian Munk -- Real things, tourist things and drawing the line in the ocean / Felicity Picken -- Conflicts forever : the path dependencies of tourism conflicts : the case of Anabeb Conservancy, Namibia / Arjaan Pellis, Martijn Duineveld and Lauren Wagner -- The tourist-vampire and the citizen : human and nonhuman encounters in the postpolitical / Richard Ek -- Hotel California : biopowering tourism, from new economy singapore to post-Mao China / Claudio Minca and Chin Ee Ong -- A fish called tourism : emergent realities of tourism policy in Iceland / Gunnar Thoŕ Joh́annesson -- Topological encounters : marketing landscapes for tourists / Edward H. Huijbens -- Possible Greenland : on "futuring" in nation branding / Carina Ren -- Postscript : making headways, expanding the field and slowing down / Carina Ren, Rene ́van der Duim and Gunnar Thoŕ Joh́annesson.