Nothing Without Tourism - Local Dependency, Time and Nativism in the Swiss Alps

For centuries, locals in many Swiss Alpine villages have depended on visitors' wanderlust to sustain their livelihoods. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a German-speaking village and tourist resort between 2017 and 2023, this book explores people's everyday experience of tourism as a volatile yet vital industry, where successes and failures in the past, present and future intersect in puzzling ways. Following 'native' locals, migrant hospitality workers from (mostly) Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as tourism lobbyists in this globalized mountain village, it examines how power imbalance among those dependent on tourism elicit different responses to the dilemmas of tourism.

A propos de l'auteur

Danaé Leitenberg is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at theSeminar for Sociology at the University of Basel. Prior to this, she was Research Fellowin the research group 'Alpine Histories of Global Change' at the Max Planck Institute forSocial Anthropology in Halle (Saale) and Lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Danae Leitenberg, Danaé Leitenberg, Danae Leitenberg Leitenberg
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 15.09.2025
• EAN: 9781836951728
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-172-8
• Pages: 296
• Thème: Anthropology of Europe
• Catégories: Livres de conseils; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Hospitality industry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Rural communities, Social and cultural anthropology, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, Political and Economic Anthropology; Travel and Tourism