Gurbet Peker
PhD student at Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology; Ethnology; Employees
- E-mail:
- gurbet.peker@etnologi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
Cramérgatan 3
SE-621 67 Visby
Sweden - Postal address:
- Campus Gotland
Cramérgatan 3
SE-621 57 Visby
Sweden
Short presentation
Gurbet Peker is a PhD candidate in Ethnology, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. She is also part of the Multidisciplinary Graduate School in Sustainability Development at Campus Gotland. Her research interests include more than human relations, tourism, rural and urban studies, cultural heritage and materiality. In her dissertation, she explores symbolic, practical, and identity-shaping roles of Gotlandic sheep in the making of the island of Gotland as a tourist destination.
Keywords
- multispecies relations
- tourism
- cultural heritage
- identity and belonging
- urban-rural relations
