Imaginative heritage

Bibliographic Data

ID20082297
AuthorsStijn Reijnder (0000-0002-1039-5101, corresponding author), Stijn Reijnders
Year2020
Pages19-33
Publication date2020-12-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLocating Imagination in Popular Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003045359-3
OpenAlexW3127242547
ISBN9781003045359
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This chapter focuses on media tourism: people travelling to places associated with film, TV series, games, or other forms of popular culture. In order to investigate the roles and impacts of the multiple stakeholders that are involved in this booming phenomenon, the term “imaginative heritage” is introduced. In particular, I refer to the multitude of popular fictional narratives that have been projected upon or appropriated by specific sites throughout time and that together make up an important part of local place identity. As I will argue, imaginative heritage results from an active involvement of not only locals, fans, and tourists but also the media industries, the tourism industries, and the local governments. By addressing the power configurations behind these heritage and tourism practices, this chapter aims to contribute to a more holistic understanding of media tourism and, more in general, the reciprocal nature of the relation between fiction, heritage, and place

Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Cultural heritage · Epistemology · Heritage tourism · Literature · Media studies · Multitude · Narrative · Phenomenon · Political science · Reciprocal · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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