12 research outputs found
Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe
An important aspect of contemporary volunteer tourism is generated by the possibility of having personal, emotional and affective
encounters and experiences. Volunteer summer camps on former
war sites, organized by the German Action Reconciliation Service
for Peace (ARSP), can be regarded as an expression of a contemporary form of tourism, which consists of the development of a
personal, affective, and immersive approach to learning and volunteering on former war sites. A performative approach to studying emotion is applied, and helps to locate and understand the
social, cultural, and political components that instigate the desire
for affective volunteer tourism. For this study, 26 semi-structured
in-depth interviews have been conducted with participants of
ARSP volunteer summer camps that focused on conserving and
maintaining former war sites in Italy, Lithuania, and France. The
results indicate that volunteers expect war themed summer
camps to be impactful (in terms of work) and emotional (in terms
of personal experiences). Yet, the sought-after impact and emotion are not always found, which gives rise to contradictory feelings and tensions. Feelings of guilt about unmet expectations
have caused volunteers to re-evaluate their motives and look for
different ways to make the summer camps meaningful to them.
Participants were encouraged to critically reflect, on this form of
volunteer tourism in particular, and on societal debates about war
and volunteer tourism in general
Touching War: An ethnographic analysis of war tourism in Europe
In my dissertation I research four specific groups of ‘war tourists’: Dutch army members who undertake battlefield tours to sites associated with the First and Second World War; Dutch veterans who undertake return trips to their former area of deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, young Europeans who engage in volunteer work on former war sites during their summer holidays, and participants of the yearly peace march to Srebrenica. By means of in-depth interviews and ethnographic field work, I analyze the motivations, experiences, and reflections of these four different groups of visitors
Lessons of War. The Significance of Battlefield Tours for the Dutch Military
This paper analyses the personal experiences of Dutch army members during military battlefield tours to historical war sites. We
present a qualitative interview based analysis of the experiences
and uses of the past by the Dutch military and discuss the tensions
present in the military battlefield tours. In doing so, we argue for
integrating research about cognitive procedures of re-enactment
and bodily experiences on historical sites. Our findings suggest
that the military battlefield tours help to evoke a specific placebound engagement with the past. Visits to former war sites evoke
detailed and vivid images of the past. The historical landscape
thereby provides external clues and arguments that assist in comprehending the course of a historical event. The multiple visual
and sensual triggers on a historical site allow for cognitive and
bodily knowledge and appeal to the participant’s imagination.
How and to what extent the past is imagined strongly depends
on the knowledge an
Produtividade e vigor do maracujazeiro-amarelo plantado em covas e plantio direto sob manejo orgânico.
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o vigor e a produtividade do maracujazeiro-amarelo plantado em diferentes tamanhos de cova e plantio direto sob manejo orgânico. O experimento foi conduzido de 2005 a 2007, no Setor de Agricultura Ecológica da Universidade Federal do Acre, em delineamento de blocos casualizados, constituídos de cinco tratamentos, quatro repetições e quatro plantas por parcela. Foram avaliados cinco tipos de preparo do solo: T1 cova do tamanho do torrão (0,19 x 0,063m) com adubação em cobertura; T2 cova de 0,30 x 0,30 x 0,30m com adubação de plantio na cova; T3 cova de 0,30 x 0,30 x 0,30m com adubação de plantio em cobertura; T4 cova de 0,50 x 0,50 x 0,50m com adubação de plantio na cova; e T5 cova de 0,50 x 0,50 x 0,50m com adubação de plantio em cobertura. O tamanho da cova e o plantio direto não influenciaram o vigor da planta e a biomassa de raízes. O número de frutos por planta e a produtividade, na segunda e na somatória das duas safras, foram maiores com plantio direto e com covas cúbicas de 0,30m. Após dois anos de cultivo, a densidade do solo foi maior na camada de 0-5cm de profundidade num raio de 20cm da planta para o plantio em covas de 0,50m com adubação na cova e menor para o plantio direto, não havendo diferença entre os demais tratamentos. O plantio direto ou o plantio em covas pequenas com dimensões de 0,30 x 0,30 x 0,30m proporcionou maior produtividade de maracujá que o plantio em covas maiores, mesmo não influenciando o vigor das plantas e a massa seca de raízes