In the shadow of the mountain: The crisis of precarious livelihoods in high altitude mountaineering tourism

J Wilson, K Dashper - Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article focuses on the crisis of precarious work/livelihoods that pervades the global
tourism industry and prevents many from experiencing fair and just employment. Drawing on …

Support from the South: How refugee labor reproduces cities

SAC Frydenlund - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Pairing Marx's worker inquiry survey method with social reproduction theory and
postcolonial urban theory, this dissertation explores displaced people's translocal wage …

[图书][B] Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges

B McDonald - 2024 - books.google.com
The name of Maurice Herzog, the first man to reach the summit of Annapurna, is widely
recognized, but how many know Ang Tharkay, the Sherpa who carried the seriously …

[PDF][PDF] DIASPORIC and cross-cultural identities in Pakistani film Khuda Ke Liye (In the name of God)

M Sibtain, A Javaid, T Aslam, Z Iqbal - Humanities & Social Sciences …, 2021 - academia.edu
Purpose: The study aims to identify the various diasporic identities, hybrid identities, and
identity crisis analyses of a Pakistani film,'Khuda Kay Liye'released on July 20, 2007, written …

종족성의일상적실천: 히말라야등반과네팔셰르파종족집단의사례

오영훈 - 남아시아연구, 2023 - dbpia.co.kr
본 논문은 현대 네팔에서 종족성이 일상적으로 실천되는 양상에 관한 연구다. 종족적 정체성이
지역, 직업, 대면 관계와 교차하면서 사회생활의 주요 국면을 형성하는 부분을 종족역사학적 …

Rising Participation of Non-Sherpa in Mountaineering in Nepal

KN Shrestha - Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures, 2023 - nepjol.info
Sherpa and mountaineering are almost synonymous in Nepal. Once there was a time when
Sherpa without mountaineering used to be regarded as half empty and mountaineering …

Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the High Himalaya: Themes, trajectories, and beyond

PY Sherpa - Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The word 'sherpa'is derived from 'sharwa', which literally means 'easterners' in the Sherpa
lan-guage. It is well established that Sherpas came from the Kham region in Eastern Tibet …

A Heavy Burden-Coloniality and Exploitation of the Subaltern in Nepal's Mountain Tourism Industry

S Frenning - 2023 - lup.lub.lu.se
This thesis analyzes the effects of mountain tourism on local people and communities in
Nepal with a focus on three main questions: the equity of mountain jobs, the impacts of …

Digital media on Everest: practices, imaginations, and futures

J Sinanan - Ed Douglas, author of Himalaya: A Human History - manchesterhive.com
On 6 May 2011, British alpine and high-altitude climber Kenton Cool posted 'Everest summit
no 9! 1st tweet from the top of the world thanks to a weak 3G signal & the awesome …

[HTML][HTML] Modernization Theory

D Fahs, T Faile, D Demeo… - … and Society a …, 2020 - opentextbooks.clemson.edu
So, you may be wondering to yourself what is the Modernization Theory? A standard Google
search would leave you with the description that studies the idea that all societies develop …