Signifying Ainu Space: Reimagining Shiretoko’s Landscapes through Indigenous Ecotourism1

Signifying Ainu Space: Reimagining Shiretoko’s Landscapes through Indigenous Ecotourism1

Recognized as Japan’s indigenous peoples in 2008, the Ainu people of Hokkaido have sought to recuperate land and self-determination by physically reenacting Ainu traditional knowledge through ecotourism in Hokkaido. Colonization and assimilation have severed most contemporary Ainu from relations wit...

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Main Author: ann-elise lewallen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-07-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
indigenous activism
Ainu
Japan
world heritage
ecotourism
settler colonialism
traditional ecological knowledge
indigenous space
ecological colonialism
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/59

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