PUBLIC LECTURE: Changing Values: Tourism as a dynamic force in Chinese conservation
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Changing Values: Tourism as a dynamic force in Chinese conservation |
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A public lecture Ed Jocelyn, Director of Red Rock Treks & Expeditions.
This public lecture draws on five years' personal experience in developing environmentally and culturally sensitive tourism programs in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Prefering to work with local communities rather than commercial and government agencies, and spending extended periods in fragile mountain environments, obliges one to confront the scale and pace of environmental and cultural destruction in China today. This lecture seeks to explore the forces driving that destruction and, more importantly, consider the potential role of commercially oriented, grassroots-based initiatives as a counter to the prevailing sense of inevitability. The dominant model of “conservation” in China sees the natural environment as static, preferring to deny access to areas of natural beauty and preserve cultures as museum pieces and officially validated “performances”. By contrast, this talk posits a dynamic model in which tourism plays a key role in the revalorization of natural and cultural resources. Rather than commodifying esoteric cultural artefacts for sale to outsiders, this model proposes focussing on the outward-looking, exchange-oriented aspects of traditional cultures as the key points of development.
Cost: Free but RSVP required - http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/jocelyn
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