Cruise ships and the urban everyday – examining social polarisation in the Northern Adriatic

Vabimo vas, da se pridružite seminarju Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje v Gosposki dvorani ZRC SAZU v sredo, 12. 11. 2025, ob 11. uri. Predavateljica Janine Schemmer prihaja z Inštituta za evropsko etnologijo na Dunaju.

Povzetek:
Cruise ships and cruise travels have been causing fierce conflicts in various European destinations for several years now. Starting from the protests against large ships that have flared up, the project aims to examine the background to the emotionalised discourse, and to explore the spatial manifestation of the cruise industry in selected cities in the northern Adriatic. For centuries, shipping has played a key role in shaping their urban fabric. Once central to trade and transport, shipping turned into one of the most important sectors of the tourism industry. The study will focus on the material, social and cultural impacts, and put them into historical perspective. To delve into the complex relationship between ship and city, I plan to turn to the following areas: infrastructure and environment, ethnic coding of maritime work and industrial heritage, and practices of conviviality.

CV :
Janine Schemmer is a cultural anthropologist. She is currently working in the transnational, interdisciplinary co-research project “Discourses and Practices of the In-Between in the Alps-Adriatic Region: Klagenfurt, Ljubljana and Trieste 1815 –1914” at the University of Vienna. The project applies the methodological approach of historical ethnography. In her research and teaching, she engages with memory culture and critical heritage studies, narrative research, spatial processes and social relations, mobilities and transnational practices, and material culture. She pursues a transdisciplinary, collaborative approach.