Research output, publications and media attention

Scientific Articles and Book Chapters


[2025] Tourism Diversification in Antarctica and New Zealand/Aotearoa's Sub-Antarctic Islands: Practices as Expressions of Values

Yousra Makanse

In M. Vereda, A. Varnajot & D. Ioannides (Eds.) Polar tourism and communities of practice: experiences, knowledge building, challenges and opportunities. Wallingford: CABI. https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/9781800624443.0005 


[2024] Rights of Nature and the Antarctic: Philosophical Considerations, Possible Modalities, and Relations with the Antarctic Treaty System

Alvarez Ortega, E., Makanse, Y., & Bastmeijer, K.

The Polar Journal 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2024.2425554


[2024] Rights of Nature and the Antarctic: an introduction

Makanse, Y., Alvarez Ortega, E., & Bastmeijer, K. 

The Polar Journal 14(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2024.2425553

 

[2024] Values and Principles in the Antarctic Treaty and the Environmental Protocol: An Overview and Categorization

Yousra Makanse, Elena-Laura Álvarez Ortega, Erik Molenaar and Kees Bastmeijer

The Yearbook of Polar Law, 15 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/22116427_015010012 


[2024] Consuming Placelessness: a Geographic Critique of Current Antarctic Tourism Development

Yousra Makanse, Edward Huijbens

Tourism Geographies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412554


[2024] Contextualising Antarctic Tourism Diversification: Tourism Management Implications from Multinational Policy Debates

Yousra Makanse

The Polar Journal, 14(1), 270–313. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2024.2342113 

 

[2024] Toward Antarctification? Tourism and Place-making in Antarctica

Alix Varnajot, Yousra Makanse, Edward Huijbens and Machiel Lamers

Polar Geography, 47(1), 49–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2024.2309673

  

[2018] Residents and visitors perceptions of an event‐experience: An on-site event-experience analysis of Lazarim Carnival (Portugal)

Ana Paula Rodrigues, Isabel Vieira, Didiana Fernandes and Yousra Makanse

ATLAS Tourism and Leisure. Volume 2018 – 1. ISSN 2468 – 6719 (2018)

 

[2017] XII Fórum Internacional de Turismo – FIT’17 Turismo em 2017 – Tendências e Oportunidades

Yousra Makanse, Lorenzo Bordonaro e Gonçalo Mota.

Pasos. Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural. 15(4):1033-1037 (2017)

 

[2014] Tourism e voluntariado: um estudo sobre a experiência solidária no âmbito do turismo

Yousra Makanse, Marcelo Vilela de Almeida

RITUR - Revista Iberoamericana de Turismo, v. 4 n. 1 (2014)

Policy Papers


ATCM 46, SCAR IP 172 rev,1, Antarctic tourism diversification: current state and issues previously discussed by the ATCM. 

SCAR [Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research]

Available at: https://www.ats.aq/devAS/Meetings/DocDatabase?lang=e 

Editorship


Special Issue -  The Polar Journal 14(2), December 2024

Rights of Nature and the Antarctic

Yousra Makanse, Elena-Laura Álvarez Ortega and Kees Bastmeijer

Presentations


ProAct Antarctic Tourism Symposium, Utrecht, Netherlands

20-21 June 2024

Seminar and Workshop: Antarctic Tourism Diversification


8th IPTRN Conference and Community Tour, Arctic Sweden

5-9 June 2024

Title: Exploring Antarctic Tourism Diversification


16th Polar Law Symposium (PLS), Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

26-28 October 2023

Seminar: Antarctic Treaty System: Values and Principles and Antarctic Tourism Governance (with Elena-Laura Álvarez Ortega)

  

SCAR SC-HASS Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

22-24 June 2023

Title: Exploring Tourism Diversification in Antarctica

Towards 'Antarctification'? Tourism and place-making in Antarctica (with Alix Varnajot)


15th Polar Law Symposium (PLS), Reykjavik, Iceland

12-14 October 2022

Title: Governance of Antarctic Tourism: The Role of ATS Principles and Values (with Elena-Laura Álvarez Ortega)


10th  SCAR Open Science Conference, Online

1-10 August 2022

Title: Intrinsic Value in Antarctica – what is intrinsically valuable?” (with Rupert Summerson)

 

Dutch Polar Symposium, The Hague, Netherlands

19 May 2022

Title: The Role of Fundamental Principles and Values in Regulating Antarctic Tourism (with Elena-Laura Álvarez Ortega)

 

7th IPTRN Conference and Study Tour, Ushuaia, Argentina

8-13 April 2022

Title: Proactively Managing the Diversification of Antarctic Tourism

 

ATLAS Annual Conference 2017 Destinations past, present and future, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

12 - 16 September 2017

Title: Residents and visitors' perceptions of an event‐experience: An on-site event-experience analysis of Lazarim Carnival, Portugal

 

Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK

29 August - 1 September 2017

Title: Gendered (in)equalities in the Douro’s tourism labour market

Panel Discussions and Talks


UTAS Antarctica Day, Hobart, Australia

6 December 2024

Panel: Cooperation in Antarctic Tourism


Public Seminar: Changing Antarctic and Challenges Ahead, Kochi, India

20 May 2024

Panel: Our responsibilities and commitment for future Antarctica: Antarctica in global setting, environmental liability, tourism, and safety


Symposium: NL Polar Day, The Hague, Netherlands

23 April 2024

Panel: Polar Tourism

 

Scientific Symposium: "The Cold is Getting Hot: From Arctic to Antarctic", Monaco

24 - 25 February 2022

Panel: Effects of Polar Changes upon Global Human Societies and Economies


Fundraising Event: Earth Corps Revive, Seattle, United States

5 October 2019

Topic: Speaker at the 2019 fundraising event, where I had the chance to relate the deforestation and fires in the Amazon with our environmental work in the US, for 500 supporters and donors, and where we were able to raise $280,000 in support.