Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hanna, Stephen P.; Butler, David L.; Carter, Perry; Modlin, E. Arnold; Potter, Amy E.

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Produktbeschreibung

The examination of social memory and heritage tourism has grown considerably over the past few decades as scholars have critically re - examined the relationships between past memories and present actions at international, national, and local scales. Methodological innovation and reflection have accompanied theoretical advances as researchers strive to understand representations, experiences, thoughts, emotions, and identities of the various actors involved in the reproduction of social memory and heritage landscapes.

Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies, showcase's these innovations - including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches - for analysing the process and politics of remembering and touring the past through place. An introductory chapter describes the history of social memory and heritage tourism research and the particular challenges posed by these fields of study. In subsequent chapters, the reader is lead through the varying methodologies employed by presenting them in the context of an in-depth case study from range of geographical locations. The resulting volume showcase's innovative research in social memory and heritage tourism and provide readers with insights into how they can successfully conduct their own research while avoiding common pitfalls.

This volume will be useful reading for scholars, professionals, and students in tourism, geography, anthropology, museum studies and other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who are preparing to conduct research on the reproduction of social memory in particular landscapes and places or are interested in investigating heritage tourism practices and representations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317754978
• Artikelnr.: 42504367

Autorenporträt

Stephen P. Hanna is Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he has engaged in research on landscape, memory, and race for the past decade. Articles related to this work appear in Cartographica, Social and Cultural Geography, Southeastern Geographer, and cultural geographies. Amy E. Potter is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of History at Armstrong State University. Her research interests include the African Diaspora, cultural ecology, plantations, and communication geography, with a regional focus on the American South and the Caribbean. E. Arnold Modlin is the Geography Instructor at Norfolk State University in Virginia. Dr. Modlin's research interest focus on the relationships between memory, identity, tourism and geography, particularly as they involve the construct of race. Perry Carter is an Associate Professor of Geography in the department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University. His research interests include theorizing race, space, and identity in both tourism landscapes of the American South and postcolonial Africa. Articles related to this work appear in Tourism Geographies, Aether: The Journal of media Geography, Historical Geography, and the Professional Geographer. David L. Butler is a full professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, International Development, and International Affairs at The University of Southern Mississippi. Butler's research interests include race and tourism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Amy E. Potter and E. Arnold Modlin Jr. Part I: Digital
Sources and Methods 2. "Don't Forget": Social Memory in Travel Blogs from
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Velvet Nelson 3. Webwashing the Tourism
Plantation: Using Historic Websites to View Changes in the Representation
of Slavery at Tourism Plantations Candace Bright and David L. Butler 4.
Virtual Ethnography: Placing Emotional Geographies via YouTube Perry Carter
Part II: Participatory Approaches 5. Historic Landscapes as Cooperative
Animation: Exploring Networks of Memory with Photographic Methods Ronald L.
Schumann III 6. Is This How You Pictured It? Perceived Values of Heritage
Sites through the Lens of a Camera Stefanie Benjamin 7. Commodifying the
Commons: Mapping Memories and Changing Sense of Place on the Island of
Barbuda Amy E. Potter 8. Participatory Methodologies in Social Memory:
Visualizing Life Histories for the Right to the City in Bogotá, Colombia
Amy E. Ritterbusch Part III: New Takes on Familiar Methods Musicscapes of
Heritage and Memory John C. Finn 10. Conversations about Slavery on
Postcards: Making Meaning of a Key Tourism Site in St Augustine, Florida
E. Arnold Modlin Jr. 11. Seeing the Past in the Present through Archives
and the Landscape Chris W. Post 12. Reading the Commemorative Landscape
with a Qualitative GIS Stephen P. Hanna and E. Fariss Hodder Epilogue
Derek H. Alderman