Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2025.2510817
Jolynna Sinanan, Ria-Maria Adams, Philipp Budka
This article examines multipolar iconography and how imaginaries of remote, climate-vulnerable places have materialized through improved transport, enhanced accommodation facilities, and increased human labor facilitating tourism. These imaginaries are perpetuated through technologies of visual culture, most commonly, through images taken on smartphones and circulated over social media platforms. We argue that a closer investigation and comparison of three distinct places not only illuminates the relationship between imaginaries and visualities as expressed through visual tourism practices but also demonstrates how these practices and destinations are shaped by specific expectations conveyed through social media. The desire to preserve memories of imagined and then witnessed scenes, coupled with the rapidly increasing impacts of climate change, drives individuals to visually document the present-capturing images of snow-covered glaciers and landscapes, natural phenomena such as the northern lights, winter and mountain icescapes, and endangered species such as polar bears. By examining visual practices within the contexts that produced them, we uncover how place-based imaginaries have informed planning, development, and collaborations. These imaginaries, embedded in visions of a "past future" have materialized through the emergence of infrastructures and continue to play out in contemporary tourism practices. Ethnographic fieldwork that focuses on processes of technologization and infrastructural development can reveal the consequences of planning, and includes the potential for co-envisioning socially transformative possibilities by actively engaging the people we work with.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2366675
Jérôme Denis, David Pontille
While anti-graffiti policies have been examined in various places, the concrete conditions of graffiti removal remain largely unexplored. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article considers a g...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2366678
Rosario Perricone
Garibaldi epitomizes the Italian Risorgimento also on an iconographical level. With particular reference to Sicily in the 20th century, this article aims at analyzing first some aspects of an often...
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Pub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2366652
Paul Hockings
The year 1895 saw a multitude of crucial inventions worldwide, one of which was the cinema. Within a few years it had become the basis of a major entertainment industry, though documentary films oc...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2333678
Laurel Kendall, Nguyễn Văn Huy, Bùi Thu Hoà
In Lai Xá Village, Vietnam, studio photography is the village handicraft. Counter to Walter Benjamin’s characterization of the click of a button, privileging eye over hand, but typical of many craf...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2334192
Addamms S. Mututa
Many of us consider ethnographic and biographical films as fixed categories, serving differentiated knowledge schemas. Yet, in the context of autobiographical filmmaking, the categories overlap, an...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2330320
Okechukwu Nwafor
This essay is a re-engagement of my visual odyssey, verbal dialogues, texts, and proceedings that I have undertaken during participation in multiple burials and funeral events in past years in sout...
这篇文章是对我过去几年在南方参与多个葬礼活动期间所进行的视觉奥德赛、语言对话、文本和程序的再接触。
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2330268
Lesley Nicole Braun, Anna Magdalena Vollmer Mateus
This article explores TikTok’s impact on the aesthetics of visual anthropology’s methods and highlights epistemic implications. TikTok engenders new inquiries regarding the position and role of res...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-12DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2024.2340375
Jürg Schneider
The study of one of Cameroon’s first permanent photo studios, Photo George in Douala, reveals a story of migration, social mobility, intellectual ambition, and a special ability to adapt to a chall...
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