Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-8-2018
Publication Title
Tourism, Culture, and Communication
Volume
18
Issue
4
Pages
287-301
Publisher Name
Cognizant Communication Corporation
Abstract
This article utilizes a qualitative ethnographic approach to examine the economic survival strategies pursued by Indonesian souvenir artisans and handicraft microvendors in touristically turbulent times. Resilience-oriented approaches have offered promising frameworks for understanding regions', destinations', and communities' capacities to adjust and adapt to challenges: this article complements these broader approaches by offering a fine-grained analysis of individual strategies for finding creative solutions to the economic challenges thrust upon them. My approach melds a constructivist approach accentuating local peoples' creative responses with gender-aware and practice-oriented approaches. These findings draw from data collected over three decades of ethnographic research in the Toraja highlands of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Recommended Citation
Adams, Kathleen M.. Local Strategies for Economic Survival in Touristically Volatile Times: An Indonesian Case Study of Microvendors, Gendered Cultural Practices, and Resilience. Tourism, Culture, and Communication, 18, 4: 287-301, 2018. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Anthropology: Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/109830418X15369281878422
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Author Posting. © Cognizant, LLC. 2018. This article is posted here by permission of Cognizant Communication Corporation for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Tourism, Culture, and Communication, 2018, https://doi.org/10.3727/109830418X15369281878422