The Political Nature of Cultural Heritage and Tourism: Critical Essays, Volume Three

by Timothy,Dallen J.

• ISBN13: 9780754627005
• ISBN10: 0754627004
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351883962
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This three volume reference series provides an authoritative and comprehensive set of volumes collecting together the most influential articles and papers on tourism, heritage and culture. The papers have been selected and introduced by Dallen Timothy, one of the leading international scholars in tourism research. The third volume 'The Political Nature of Cultural Heritage and Tourism' addresses contemporary issues such as heritage dissonance, the debate on authenticity, conflict, and contested heritage.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The convergence process in heritage tourism

Abraham Lincoln as authentic reproduction: a critique of postmodernism

Cultural politics or critical public history?: battling on the Little Bighorn

Local uniqueness in the global village: heritage tourism in Singapore

Contesting places of memory: the case of Auschwitz

Coconstructing heritage at the Gettysburg storyscape

Authenticity and commoditization in tourism

Historical preservation and identity: the Alamo and the production of a consumer landscape

Authenticity on the ground: engaging the past in a California ghost town

Guarding authenticity at literary tourism sites

Transforming tourism: black empowerment, heritage and identity beyond apartheid

Developing a framework for indicators of authenticity: the place and space of cultural and heritage tourism

Culture and the state: manufacturing traditions for tourism

An unwanted past: contemporary tourism and the heritage of communism in Romania

Gazing on communism: heritage tourism and post-communist identities in Germany

Staged authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings

Affirming authenticity: consuming cultural heritage

Museums and the construction of national identity: a review

Tourism, performance and social exclusion in 'Olde York'

Historic theme parks: an Australian experience in authenticity

Contested religious heritage: differing views of Mormon heritage

Culture, identity and tourism representation: marketing Cymru or Wales?

Aboriginal heritage art and moral rights

Maori cultural performances and tourism

Remaking local heritage for tourism

Authenticating ethnic tourism: Li dancers' perspectives

Rethinking authenticity in tourism experience

Contested heritage at the Cape Town Waterfront

Name index

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