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Heritage That Hurts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Heritage That Hurts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Memorial sites are vernacular spaces that are continuously negotiated, constructed, and reconstructed into meaningful places. Through in-depth interviews, photographs, and graffiti, the author compares the 9/11 memorial with other hurtful sites to show how tourists construct knowledge through performative activities.

Encounters with Popular Pasts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Encounters with Popular Pasts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms – popular culture – capable of being transformed into heritage?.

Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-12
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Mankind has been fascinated with and drawn to the macabre for many years. This is particularly evident in the growing popularity of dark tourism, which centers on locations known for death and suffering. Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism is a pivotal reference source featuring the latest scholarly research in which the rise of new technology platforms is not only changing tourism worldwide, but also facilitating the access to areas of war, mourning, and disaster. Including coverage on a number of topics such as sexual tourism, disaster recovery, and capitalism, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on concepts and methodologies of the dark tourism industry.

Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage

  • Categories: Art

The museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and heritage in Berlin provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. Exploring new initiatives and approaches, the book shows how these work - or do not - in practice. By doing so, it highlights ways forward - for research and action - for the future. The fieldwork locations on which this book is based include the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as Berlin streets and protests.

An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-07-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism is the first book to present, discuss and promote the use of a range of visual methods in tourism studies. It introduces methods ranging from the collection of secondary visual materials for the purposes of analysis (such as postcards, tourism brochures, and websites) and the creation of visuals in the context of primary research (such as photography, video and drawings), to the production of data through photo-elicitation techniques. The book promotes thoroughly underpinned interdisciplinary visual tourism research and includes an exploration of many key philosophical, methodological and inter-disciplinary approaches. Comprised of five p...

Open(ing) Authority Through Community Engagement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Open(ing) Authority Through Community Engagement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Intangible Heritage Embodied
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Intangible Heritage Embodied

Archaeological research has long focused on studying tangible artifacts to build a picture of the cultures it examines. Equally important to understanding a culture, however, are the intangible elements that become part of its heritage. In 2003, UNESCO adopted a convention specifically to protect intangible heritage, including the following: oral traditions and expressions, including language; performing arts (such as traditional music, dance, and theater); social practices, rituals, and festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; and traditional craftsmanship. Since this convention was adopted, scholars and preservationists have struggled with how to best app...

Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia: Emerging Research and Opportunities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 131

Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia: Emerging Research and Opportunities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-12
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As the tourism industry grows worldwide, researchers continue to seek solutions and practices that support increased tourism to specific regions. Special interest tourism is a method that looks at how psychological and sociological factors help a visitor choose which destination to visit. By applying this type of tourism in Southeast Asia, the role of emotions, experiences, and place attachment becomes a driving factor for tourists. Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia: Emerging Research and Opportunities critically discusses the challenges associated with special interest tourism and how it can be used to overcome unfavorable impacts of tourism for the local community, as well as preserve cultural heritage. The book covers emerging issues such as sustainability, technological advances within this type of tourism, and responses to over tourism and tourism-phobia. It is ideally designed for government officials, policymakers, managers, industry professionals, and university students seeking current research on the recent growth of the tourism industry.

Post-Communist Transitional Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Post-Communist Transitional Justice

  • Categories: Law

Explores how the former communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes.

The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues

This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger in 2003 as “Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley”. With the condition that most surface of the original fragments of the Buddha statues were lost due to acts of deliberate destruction, this publication explores a reference point for conservation practitioners and policy makers around the world as they consider how to respond to on-going acts of destruction of cultural heritage. Whilst there has been an emerging deb...