The figure of the guide: Arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard
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The figure of the guide : Arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard. / la Cour, Eva.
I: Polar Record, Bind 59, Nr. e18, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The figure of the guide
T2 - Arctic nature guiding as productive behaviour on Svalbard
AU - la Cour, Eva
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Drawing from ethnographic participation in a ski excursion among a group of Arctic Nature Guide students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, this paper explores guiding as a model of practice embedded in relations – material encounters, discursive frictions and collaborative efforts. The article pays attention to practical negotiations and navigations of these relations while making use of historical scholarship on the role of the guide as a basis for theoretical reflections on the role’s mediation activities. More precisely, the paper advocates a “creation-model of mediation” that challenges modernist representational discourse (and conceptualisations of nature) through a recognition of guiding as productive behaviour. Displaying agency in meaning-making and embodying Svalbard’s transient cosmopolitan population, the guide emerges as a figure on ground far from fixed and settled, and as a tool with which to appraise Svalbard as more geo-aesthetical condition than bounded place.
AB - Drawing from ethnographic participation in a ski excursion among a group of Arctic Nature Guide students on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, this paper explores guiding as a model of practice embedded in relations – material encounters, discursive frictions and collaborative efforts. The article pays attention to practical negotiations and navigations of these relations while making use of historical scholarship on the role of the guide as a basis for theoretical reflections on the role’s mediation activities. More precisely, the paper advocates a “creation-model of mediation” that challenges modernist representational discourse (and conceptualisations of nature) through a recognition of guiding as productive behaviour. Displaying agency in meaning-making and embodying Svalbard’s transient cosmopolitan population, the guide emerges as a figure on ground far from fixed and settled, and as a tool with which to appraise Svalbard as more geo-aesthetical condition than bounded place.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Geo-aesthetics
KW - mediation
KW - the figure the guide
KW - Svalbard
KW - processes of knowing
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247423000104
DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247423000104
M3 - Journal article
VL - 59
JO - Polar Record
JF - Polar Record
SN - 0032-2474
IS - e18
ER -
ID: 372965015