Contested heritages and cultural tourism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5700367
AutoresBrendan Murtagh (0000-0002-9417-6052, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK, autor de correspondencia), Philip Boland (0000-0003-1011-2447, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK), Peter Shirlow (0000-0002-7483-9859, University of Liverpool)
Año2017
Volumen23
Número6
Páginas506-520
Fecha de publicación2017-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13527258.2017.1287118
OpenAlexW2586939268
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas41

The fascination with death and disaster has encouraged the development of distinctive tourism markets, the rediscovery of sites and places of past conflict and all accompanied with uneasy narratives about what they mean and how they should be consumed. The increasingly stratified tourist economy and the interplay between demand and supply has also stimulated a complex set of ontological, socio-political and indifferent responses as places and interests compete to project often selective or stylised claims for recognition. This paper reviews the experiences of tourists visiting Derry/Londonderry, the UK’s first City of Culture and how they make sense of the competing interpretations of the past in museums, rituals and artefacts. The 17thC walled city, the city of violence and the post-conflict renaissance city are spatially and socially reproduced but rarely connect with each other to help make sense of the past for the present and critically, for the future. The paper concludes that the discursive content promised by the City of Culture was a missed opportunity to debate these places and events and critically, the problematized and reified narratives they each project

Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Heritage tourism · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Renaissance · Tourism · Tourism geography · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Religious Tourism and Spaces