Dwelling in tourism. Power and myth amongst Bushmen in Southern Africa

Cover Dwelling in tourismDwelling in Tourism highlights how marginalised Bushmen people are in the middle of a struggle between traditional en modern forces. Tourism, as an important element of conservation strategies, is a phenomenon built on both, and therefore reveals those struggles and shows how the marginalised status of Bushmen is interwoven with relations of power and myths. Seen from the dwelling perspective as the main theoretical starting point, many tourism environments in four case studies are described, three in Namibia and one in South Africa. All too often Bushmen are considered natural ecologists in need of protection, while in reality they are participants of modernisation with their own agency.

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Author(s) / editor(s)

Stasja Koot

About the author(s) / editor(s)

Stasja Koot (1974) has Masters degrees in anthropology and environmental studies. He lived and worked in Namibia from 2003 until 2007, where he was involved in founding Treesleeper Camp. After returning to the Netherlands Koot started working for an NGO and later he would start his PhD. In 2012 he became a lecturer Tourism Management at the InHolland University of Applied Sciences and in mid-2013 Koot assigned at the ISS, a department of the Erasmus University Rotterdam as a postdoctoral researcher, where he is currently doing research into the political economy of conservation in online and Southern African environments.

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Posted on 4 November 2013, last modified on 3 December 2013