Carsten Wergin How Does Tourism Change People and Places?
Carsten Wergin is Head of a Research Group at Heidelberg University's research area 'Transcultural Studies' (funded by the German Excellence Initiative). Previous positions include that of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. He is a founding member of the Environmental Anthropology Working Group of the German Anthropological Association (GAA), and Deputy Chair of the German Association for Australian Studies (GASt). His research focuses, among other topics, on socio-ecological transformations triggered by tourism, heritage and the resources sector. It is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Indian Ocean World, the European Ultra-Periphery, the Mascarene Islands and Northwest Australia.
Area of Research
Sociocultural Anthropology, Environmental Humanities
since 2014
Research Group Leader 'The Transcultural Heritage of Northwest Australia'
Heidelberg University (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Transcultural Studies
2011-2014
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
University of New South Wales (Sydney)
Social Policy Research Centre
2008-2011
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Graduate School 'Society and Culture in Motion'
2007
PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology
University of Bremen (Universität Bremen)
2001
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies
University of London
Goldsmiths College
2000
Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and Communications
London Guildhall University
- Cultural Studies Review
- Island Studies Journal
- Journal of World Popular Music
- Science as Culture
- Transcultural Studies
- European Association of Social Anthropologists
- German Anthropological Association
- German Association for Australian Studies (Deputy Chair)
- Frobenius Society
Fellowships
- Senior Visiting Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales (2014-2017)
- Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow (2011-2014)
Prizes
- Mariann Steegmann Foundation Publication Award (2010)
- Young Scholars Award, European Science Foundation (2007)
- PhD Stipend Holder of the Evangelische Studienwerk, Villigst (2003-2005)
The classic image that tourists and travelers should only leave footprints and take photos is put into question by CARSTEN WERGINs academic investigation of how tourism has changed the world. In this video, he describes his interest in the question of how tourism impacts on particular places and people. In his field studies and during participant observations he has found that tourism is not only a global industry, it also actively changes the world on various levels, for example in regards to perceptions of the environment or approaches to heritage at tourist destinations. This suggests that tourism should not merely be considered a global industry but rather a globe-making activity.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10510
Reconstructing Biodiversity for Tourism Development: Ethnographic Accounts from a World Heritage Site in the Making
- Carsten Wergin
- World Heritage Sites and Tourism: Global and Local Relations
- Published in 2017
Travelling the Mascarenes: Creoleness in Tourism Policies and Practices on La Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues
- Carsten Wergin
- Archipelago Tourism: Policies and Practices
- Published in 2015
Intensifying the Tourist Experience: ‘Survenirs’ at Daly Waters Pub
- Stephen Muecke and Carsten Wergin
- Tourist Studies
- Published in 2014
'Three Days Awake': Cultural Urbanism at a Popular Music Festival Outside the City
- Carsten Wergin
- Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-Industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States
- Published in 2013
Questions of Value: Tourism and the Resources Boom
- Carsten Wergin and Stephen Muecke
- Australian Humanities Review
- Published in 2012
