Tourism and heritage are two collaborative phenomena. We consider the relationship between heritage and tourism as one that is amphidromic and reciprocal. On the one hand, tourism is certainly attracted by sites, buildings, areas or arts and crafts already recognized as heritage and contributes to their touristification. On the other, by its action, it contributes to redefining the scope and symbolic meaning of the then touristified heritage. In this sense, tourism has been one of the most powerful factors in the social production of heritage. The ambition of this text is to bring new light to the ways tourism and heritage have reciprocally impacted, transformed and transmuted each other. To do so, we will highlight recent changes in both the heritage and tourism paradigms. We will discuss their relationship and, beyond that, their reciprocal coproduction. We finally suggest new paths for future research on the multiple and dynamic interrelations between heritage and tourism.
Monograph Chapter
In A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism
Edited by Maria Gravari-Barbas
- Published:
- 8 December 2020
Edited by Maria Gravari-Barbas
Colonialism, Tourism and Place
Global Transformations in Tourist Destinations
Edited by Denis Linehan, Ian D. Clark and Philip F. Xie
Edited by Songshan Huang and Ganghua Chen
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook on Tourism and China
Edited by Songshan Huang and Ganghua Chen
- Published:
- 15 June 2020
Edited by Songshan Huang and Ganghua Chen
Edited by Songshan Huang and Ganghua Chen
Handbook Chapter
In Handbook on Tourism and China
Edited by Songshan Huang and Ganghua Chen
- Published:
- 15 June 2020
Sharing Knowledge for Land Use Management
Decision-Making and Expertise in Europe’s Northern Periphery
Edited by John McDonagh and Seija Tuulentie
Silvia Cerisola
Meghann Ormond
Closed adoptions – where birth and adoption records are legally sealed to obscure adoptees’ biological parentage – were once the norm in many Western Anglophone countries. Grassroots resistance to closed adoption relied upon the belief that deprivation of knowledge of their true biological origins could lead to psychological trauma among adoptees. In this chapter, the author reflects on her own mother’s sense of deprivation, her desire for a coherent origin story and her consequent process of cobbling together disparate analogue, digital and biotechnical fragments of legally, religiously, scientifically, commercially and familiarly authorised and authorising heritages from among diverse resources rendered intelligible, relevant and truthful by societal and (bio)technological transformations over time. In so doing, the author calls attention to complicated power relations in everyday personal heritage practices that challenge the simplistic pitting of ‘heritage from below’ (Iain Robertson, Heritage from Below, 2012) against ‘Authorised Heritage Discourse’ (AHD) (Laurajane Smith, Uses of Heritage, 2006).
Monograph Chapter
In After Heritage
Edited by Hamzah Muzaini and Claudio Minca
- Published:
- 27 July 2018