Negotiating the gray zone: Ski guiding routine dynamics
基于对挪威滑雪向导的三年参与式民族志研究,探讨向导如何在风险山区环境中协商不确定性,将组织常规动态理论引入冒险旅游研究,并强调社会生态纠缠对协商过程的影响。
This article explores how guides negotiate uncertainty in a risky mountain environment based on three years of participant ethnography with Norwegian ski guides. This study makes two primary contributions. First, we introduce the literature on organizational routine dynamics to adventure tourism research; this helps to explain how guides perform and adapt routines to socio-ecological uncertainty. Second, our socio-ecologically informed approach highlights how social interactions impact the ‘more-than-human’ post-materialist discourse in adventure tourism research. These two contributions, in combination, suggest that negotiating uncertainty is dependent on the evolving nature of socio-ecological entanglements. • Introduces routine dynamics theory to adventure tourism research • Explains how guides adapt routines to variations in uncertainty • Suggests a social-ecological perspective to more-than-human research