Happy 2019! This book chapter is about power relations of NGO workers and researchers who work with marginalised people. Moreover, it is a methodological exploration of the usage of one's memory in autoethnography. As usual, all my papers are open acess under 'Publications'. Koot, S. (2019). Autoethnography and power in a tourism researcher position: A…Read more New publication! Autoethnography and power in a tourism researcher position: A self-reflexive exploration of unawareness, memories and paternalism among Namibian Bushmen.
New publication: The Bushman brand in southern African tourism: An indigenous modernity in a neoliberal political economy.
Check out this new publication about structural processes of branding people: Koot, S. (2018). The Bushman brand in southern African tourism: An indigenous modernity in a neoliberal political economy. In R. Fleming Puckett and I. Kazunobu (Eds.), Research and activism among the Kalahari San today: Ideals, challenges, and debates. Senri Ethnological Studies 99 (pp. 231-250). Osaka: National…Read more New publication: The Bushman brand in southern African tourism: An indigenous modernity in a neoliberal political economy.
New book review: Whiteness and nature conservation in Zimbabwe
Check out this recent book review if interested: Koot, S. (2018). Whiteness and nature conservation in Zimbabwe. Book review of The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe, by Yuka Suzuki. Journal of Southern African Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2018.1464723: 2018 – Koot – Whiteness and nature conservation in Zimbabwe (book review)
‘New’ publication
This book chapter is not really a new publication but a copy of my paper in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism from 2016, a special issue on indigenous tourism. The special issue has been made into a book because of commercial reasons. My chapter is called 'Contradictions of capitalism in the South African Kalahari: Indigenous…Read more ‘New’ publication
New publication: Authenticity and the contradictions of the ‘ecotourism script’: Global marketing and local politics in Ghana
Dear all, Please see here my latest publication, that I have worked on with three colleagues, about marketing and ecotourism in Ghana: Büscher, B., Van den Breemer, R,. Fletcher, R. and Koot, S. (2017). Authenticity and the contradictions of the ‘ecotourism script’: Global marketing and local politics in Ghana. Critical Arts 31 (4), 37-52. 2017…Read more New publication: Authenticity and the contradictions of the ‘ecotourism script’: Global marketing and local politics in Ghana
Stasja Koot 