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Granbom, Ann-Charlotte
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Lindell, L., Dziadkiewicz, A., Sattari, S., Misiune, I., Pereira, P. & Granbom, A.-C. (2019). Wellbeing tourism and its potential in case regions of the South Baltic: Lithuania – Poland – Sweden. Linnaeus University
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2019 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study is to gain a comprehensive view on the current state of wellbeing tourism and its potential for development in certain coastal and near coastal regions of the South Baltic. Based on the published contemporary discourse on wellbeing tourism and its practices, we propose the following definition for wellbeing tourism: "a specific type of tourism intended to promote and maintain a positive state of health of the body, mind and soul, and that is composed of products and services drawn upon a sustainable and harmonious interaction with the surrounding environment and community."

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linnaeus University, 2019. p. 39
Keywords
tourism, wellbeing, sustainability, health, marketing, entrepreneurship, SME
National Category
Environmental Sciences Economics and Business
Research subject
Tourism
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98638 (URN)9789189283053 (ISBN)
Available from: 2020-11-02 Created: 2020-11-02 Last updated: 2023-09-01Bibliographically approved
Granbom, A.-C. (2017). The second wave: the Urak Lawoi after the tsunami in Thailand. (Doctoral dissertation). Lund: Department of Sociology, Lund University
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The second wave: the Urak Lawoi after the tsunami in Thailand
2017 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Urak Lawoi är en ursprungsbefolkning i Andamansjön som bl.a. bor på kända turistöar som Phuket, Phi Phi, Ko Lanta Yai och Ko Lipe utanför Thailands västkust. Deras språk och kultur skiljer sig från övriga thailändares, inte minst ifråga om kunskap att navigera på havet. Att bo på eller vid havet är centralt för deras identitet; det är där de fiskar, samlar föda på stränder och utför sina ritualer. I århundranden, ja, kanske tusentals år har Urak Lawoi levt vid stranden och av de resurser som havet kan ge. Andra kallar dem ofta efter de västerländska benämningarna; ”Sea Gypsies”, ”havsnomader” eller, på thailändska, ”Chao Ley”.Den 26 december 2004 drabbades Thailand av den mest förödande tsunamin som noterats i modern historia. Mer än 350 000 människor omkom i Sydostasien. Om tsunamin var ”den första våg” som sköljde över Urak Lawoi, blev hjälpinsatser och reformer som följde efter tsunamin ”den andra vågen”, och den kom att generera betydande sociokulturella förändringar.Syftet med den här avhandlingen är att undersöka hur reformer, hjälpinsatser och den ökade uppmärksamhet som Urak Lawoi fick efter tsunamin har påverkat deras liv, särskilt på ön Ko Lanta Yai. Avhandlingen bygger på 36 månaders etnografiska fältstudier som gjorts under olika perioder mellan 2002 och 2013, alltså både före och efter tsunamin. Monografin ger en empirisk förståelse för hur globala ekonomiska intressen och transnationell migration påverkar lokalsamhällen på de stränder där Urak Lawoi varit bosatta, och som exploaterats för turism. Fallstudier från fältarbetet används för att visa hur en ursprungsbefolkning kan berövas sitt territorium och hur detta påverkar deras identitet och livsföring.När jag träffade Urak Lawoi första gången var det en gåta för mig varför landrättigheter hade en så central betydelse för människor som var kända som ett havsfolk. Här försöker jag finna svar på denna gåta och undersöka vad dessa svar egentligen innebär. Undersökningen visar hur konflikter kan uppstå på grund av det omgivande samhällets ekonomiska intressen och en lokalbefolknings traditionella livsstil. Studien visar hur en naturkatastrof används som en förevändning för att exploatera det drabbade området och bygga upp en turistindustri, och därmed påskynda en förändringsprocess som i själva verket var planerad redan före katastrofen. Analysen visar hur en respons på en naturkatastrof kan påskynda integrationen av en lokalbefolkning i den globala ekonomiska arenan. Uppbyggnadsverksamheter, nya regler och sociala integrationsprocesser blev katalysatorer för den lokala regeringen att genomföra förändringar som passade turismens tillväxt, men inte nödvändigtvis Urak Lawois intressen. Utomstående vill skapa en stereotyp bild av detta ”havsfolk” och ge dem "rätt" att behålla sin identitet under förutsättning att deras traditioner passar in i turistindustrins expandering. Studien visar hur denna utveckling har ökat ojämlikheten i människors levnadsförhållanden och gjort dem som saknar landrättigheter mer utsatta och sårbara. Trots sin utsatthet ser de emellertid inte sig själva som offer. De visar tvärtom stark kreativitet att agera inom det omgivande samhällets normer och regler och att göra motstånd. Slutsatsen är att de som har tillgång till mark är bäst på att integrera med det thailändska samhället, men de är också bäst på att bevara sin identitet.

Abstract [en]

On 26 December 2004, the Urak Lawoi sea people were hit by a huge tsunami that overwhelmed all of Southeast Asia causing the deaths of more than 350,000 people across the region. If the tsunami was the disaster, the “first wave”, the relief efforts and the assistance that came with it became the “second wave”, due to the social and economic changes that followed. The Urak Lawoi have for centuries, resided on the Andaman Sea, off western Thailand. They have long lived on islands, that today are popular touristic destinations, such as Phuket, Phi Phi, and Ko Lanta Yai. Here, they have long shared resources that the ocean can offer for subsistence. Living next to the sea is central to their identity; here, they fish, gather at the shore, and perform ancestor-spirit worship. Although they are a minority in Thailand, they maintain a culture, language, and lifestyle apart from Thai society. In this dissertation I discuss how the post-tsunami reforms, relief efforts and outside attention have affected everyday life among the Urak Lawoi on the island of Ko Lanta Yai. The dissertation is based on 36 months of ethnographic fieldwork that stretches over a decade (2002-2013), before and after the tsunami. I have used video cameras to film, providing a deeper understanding of the empirical data collected. The monograph provides an empirical understanding of how global economic interests and transnational migration influence local communities. Examples from fieldwork are used to demonstrate how an indigenous people were deprived of their territory (which in this case includes the sea), and how this affected their religion but also hampered their self-sufficient economy as they became increasingly dependent on a solid monetary income. The analysis reveals how a response to a natural disaster can accelerate the integration of local people into the global economic arena under the conditions of tourism development. The rebuilding activities, new regulations, and social integration processes became catalysts for the local government to implement desired changes that suited tourism growth. The study demonstrates how development increased the inequalities of people’s living conditions and made people without land entitlements more vulnerable. Those who have access to land were the best at integrating with Thai society, but they were also the best at preserving their identity.Thus, I argue, a natural disaster can be used as a pretext for exploitation in favor of tourism development in the affected area, and speed up the process of change. I conclude that outsiders have a desire to create stereotypes of the Urak Lawoi, who only have the “right” to retain their identity as “sea people” if they adapt their traditions and culture to suit tourism development. Although vulnerable, the Urak Lawoi do not see themselves as victims but show strong agency and creativity to act within limitations in society.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Department of Sociology, Lund University, 2017. p. 356
Series
Lund Monographs in Social Anthropology, ISSN 1101-9948 ; 24
Keywords
Urak Lawoi, Chao Ley, sea nomads, sea gypsies, sea people, Thailand, disaster, vulnerability, resilience, tourism development, land policies, Indigenous people, Religion, Urak Lawoi, Turismvetenskap, Tsunami, landrättigheter, Thailand, Havsnomader, ursprungsfolk, visuell antropologi, havsfolk, sårbarhet, religion
National Category
Social Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82584 (URN)9789177533979 (ISBN)
Public defence
2017-10-13, Kulturen auditorium, Tegnérsplatsen 6, Lund, 10:00
Opponent
Supervisors
Available from: 2019-05-17 Created: 2019-05-16 Last updated: 2019-05-17Bibliographically approved
Granbom, A.-C. (2009). Den ukjente siden av turistparadiset Ko Lanta i Thailand. Kunnskap og Vennskap (2), 8-9
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Den ukjente siden av turistparadiset Ko Lanta i Thailand
2009 (Norwegian)In: Kunnskap og Vennskap, no 2, p. 8-9Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [no]

På kort har øya Ko Lanta utviklet seg til det stedet i Thailand med flest svensker. Etter tsunami katastrofen i desember 2004 har utviklingen gått fort og migrasjon til øya har blitt veldig populært av ulike grunner. Lokalsamfunnene og områdene som tidligere var bebodd av havnomader og fattige muslimske fiskere er nå i ferd med å bli fortrengt av skan- dinaver som bygger hus og hytter. Man kan ofte lese glade solskinns- historier om svensker som har brutt opp fra en trist hverdag til fordel for paradiset Ko Lanta – men hvordan opplever egentlig lokalbefolkningen denne utviklingen?

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elverum: Namibia foreningen, 2009
Keywords
socialantropologi, Sea Gypsies, Chao Ley, Urak Lawoi, Sea Nomads, Havsnomader, tourism development, urfolk, Thailand
National Category
Social Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82587 (URN)
Note

Temanummer urfolk

Available from: 2019-05-16 Created: 2019-05-16 Last updated: 2019-09-09Bibliographically approved
Granbom, A.-C. (2008). Havsnomaderna Urak Lawoi "Att förlora sin båt är som att förlora sin hand". In: Anna Klint (Ed.), Ursprungsfolk i världen: (pp. 14-19). Stockholm: Föreningen Fjärde Världen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Havsnomaderna Urak Lawoi "Att förlora sin båt är som att förlora sin hand"
2008 (Swedish)In: Ursprungsfolk i världen / [ed] Anna Klint, Stockholm: Föreningen Fjärde Världen , 2008, p. 14-19Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

När européerna kom i kontakt med Sydost-Asien på 1500-talet möttes de av ett väl fungerande handelssystem som byggdes ut till Atlanten och Stilla havet. "Havsnomader" eller ”sjözigenare” spelade här en viktig roll, då de försåg resande med varor i viktiga hamnar mellan Indiska Oceanen och Sydkinesiska havet. De var inte själva köpmän eller grossister, utan försåg mellanhänderna med varor. Dessa "havsnomader" existerar fortfarande, men antalet som lever på enbart båtar minskar för varje år och bosättning i land vid kusten blir allt vanligare. Trots bofasthet vid kusten - ibland i flera generationer - tenderar de att bevara sin etniska identitet från andra kustnära folk.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Föreningen Fjärde Världen, 2008
Keywords
social anthropology, Tourist Development, Sea Nomads, Urak Lawoi, Sea Gypsis, Thailand, Chao Ley
National Category
Social Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82588 (URN)9789163328930 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-05-16 Created: 2019-05-16 Last updated: 2019-09-09Bibliographically approved
Granbom, A.-C. (2008). Turistindustriens brød og et urfolks død. Antropress. Antropologistudentens Tisdsskrift, 1, 6-7
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Turistindustriens brød og et urfolks død
2008 (Norwegian)In: Antropress. Antropologistudentens Tisdsskrift, ISSN 1894-7468, Vol. 1, p. 6-7Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [no]

Thailand har etterhvert utviklet seg til å bli mange skandinaveres turistparadis. Etter tsunamikatastrofen som rammet Sørøst-Asia andre juledag 2004 fikk vi høre at den beste måten å hjelpe den thailandske befolkningen på etter hendelsen var å vende tilbake dit som turister. Den voksende turismen i Thailand har ført med seg en økt økonomisk velstand på mange av øyene solhungrige turister har lagt sin elsk på. De samme øyene er også hjem for en urfolksbefolkning, Urak Lawoi, som opplever en helt annen side av turismeeventyret.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oslo: Iwgia-Oslo, 2008
Keywords
Thailand; Urak Lawoi; Sea Nomads; Chao Ley; Turism Development; Sea Gypsies; social anthropology, socialantropologi, urfolk, Thailand, Urak Lawoi, Havsnomader, Chao Ley, Turistexploatering, socialantropologi, urfolk, Thailand, sosialantropologi, Urak Lawoi
National Category
Social Anthropology
Research subject
Tourism
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82589 (URN)
Available from: 2019-05-16 Created: 2019-05-16 Last updated: 2019-09-09Bibliographically approved
Granbom, A.-C. (2007). Urak Lawoi: Sea Nomads in Andaman Sea. Lund: Sociologiska institutionen, Lund universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Urak Lawoi: Sea Nomads in Andaman Sea
2007 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Lotta Granbom, a mother of three from Sweden is on holiday in Thailand. It is her first trip there together with her daughter Ebba-Lotta. After some difficulty finding accommodation at the tourist resorts, they decide instead to search for Sea Nomads in the Andaman Sea. Lotta has heard of a nomadic group of people who live on the sea around Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia. She is curious to find out more; why a people choose to live on their boats? How this does shape their culture and traditions? What is their origin? And why do so few people know of their existence? This first journey, and encounter with the Urak Lawoi Sea Nomads will change Lotta’s life. For years to come Lotta will passionately follow and document their way of life. They have maintained a culture, language and life style set apart from Thai society, but all this is now changing. Lotta’s base has been Ko Lanta Yai in Thailand. Lotta’s work will show that the Urak Lawoi Sea Nomads do not live in the “pristine paradise” anymore as she had read about and expected. During her visits she has lived in a primitive hut, right on the beach, together with her three daughters. Incredibly, the hut was not swept away by the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia on 26 December, 2004, however the luxury resort built on the same beach did not have the same luck. The Urak Lawoi Sea Nomads talk of two different changes for them: “first the tourist came to the island and then the tsunami”. This book is a field study of the Urak Lawoi, an indigenous people in Thailand, and the consequences for them with rapid tourist development.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Sociologiska institutionen, Lund universitet, 2007. p. 102
Keywords
Thailand; Sea Nomads; Urak Lawoi; Indigenous People; Sea Gypsies; Tourism Development; Chao Ley; social anthropology
National Category
Social Anthropology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82585 (URN)91-7267-234-X (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-05-16 Created: 2019-05-16 Last updated: 2021-04-22Bibliographically approved
Granbom, A.-C. (2005). Urak Lawoi: A Field Study of an Indigenous People in Thailand and their Problems with Rapid Tourism Development. Lund: Sociologiska institutionen, Lund universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Urak Lawoi: A Field Study of an Indigenous People in Thailand and their Problems with Rapid Tourism Development
2005 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This research is about the indigenous people Urak Lawoi in Andaman Sea, outside the west coast of Thailand. The study shows what happens to them when they are being deprived of their territory and are being forced to abandon their culture, lifestyle and traditional economic subsistence. Urak Lawoi have until recently maintained culture, language and lifestyle apart from the rest of Thai society. During the last one and half decades, rapid tourism development, with large-scale hotels and bungalow resorts, have impacted and disrupted significantly on the nomadic lifestyles of the indigenous Urak Lawoi. They have been pushed away farther from the beaches and into unproductive parts. Powerful global forces linked to the world market economy result in situations that are not favorable for the local people Urak Lawoi and the ecosystems.

The study shows how inferiority complex of an ethnic community increase under circumstances of social, political and economic pressure.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Sociologiska institutionen, Lund universitet, 2005. p. 98
Series
Working Paper in Social Anthropology, ISSN 1652-442X ; 1
Keywords
Tourism; Boat People; Indigenous People; Sea Gypsies; Chao Ley; Sea Nomads; Urak Lawoi; social anthropology; Thailand
National Category
Social Anthropology
Research subject
Tourism
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82586 (URN)91-7267-206-4 (DOI)91-7267-206-4 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-05-16 Created: 2019-05-16 Last updated: 2019-05-28Bibliographically approved
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