Description
CANCELLED The largely insular country of Iceland promotes environmentally conscious practices. However, as a country in the process of modernization, much of its industry promotes the exploitation or commodification of the natural environment for profit; nowhere is this more prevalent than in the tourism industry. Tyler Volpe explores how the discourse around environmentalism engages with tradition and folklore through a contested process of globalization and modernization.
Tyler Volpe is a second year PhD student at the University of New Mexico in the sociocultural and linguistic anthropology program. His focus is on environmentalism and the cultural patterns of organization that consolidate around climate change.