Despite the ongoing efforts towards Cold War heritage-making in Europe, the ambiguities in meaning and the cultural status of certain materialities from the second half of the 20
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century across ...different national contexts highlight a heritage dissonance at play. Focusing on the case of the Baltic states, we analyse the engagements with Soviet military remnants since the early 1990s in the context of changing political regimes. We approach the prevailing practices of disinheritance along the same conceptual lines as heritage-making and highlight how disinheritance has contributed to shaping national identities and future-oriented landscape relations. We argue that disinheritance can be a legitimate alternative strategy for dealing with difficult legacies. In addition, we shed light on how the fragmented attempts to preserve and re-narrativize certain Soviet military remnants reflect the constrained relations between the political agendas of post-1990s nationalism and European integration.
This paper examines the relationship between motivation, experience, and post-purchase intentions of five ethnic tourist segments at Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade attractions. Multi-group invariance ...test on 783 tourists revealed that relaxation motivation influenced the emotional experience of all ethnicities except Blacks in the diaspora whose emotional experience was influenced by social motives. Educational motivation influenced the educational experience of all segments except Black Africans though it impacted their aesthetic experience. Emotional experience influenced the behavioural intention of Blacks in the diaspora, Caucasian Americans, and Europeans while educational experience influenced that of Black Europeans and Africans. Implications of the findings are discussed.
•A dialogical heritage model is used to examine heritage representations.•Suggestions for shared heritage strategies are offered.•Both tangible and psychological aspects of perceived dissonance are ...identified.•Issues associated with intentional amnesia in broadcast heritage are pointed out.
This study aims to examine heritage representations of a metropolitan city in the United States, using a dialogical present-centered approach. Heritage themes and icons contextualized by the local agencies are identified. Views of a purposeful stratified sample of local residents are sought. Statistically significant differences in perceptions and level of connectedness to heritage expressions and icons are determined between the Whites (the mainstream population), the Hispanics and the Asians. Information is also elicited on preferred themes and images that hold potential to showcase local heritage in an equitable manner to heritage tourists. Traces of heritage dissonance and societal exclusion are identified and proactive dialogical initiatives are suggested that portray meaningful present-centered public heritage representations to promote sustainable heritage tourism.
The article addresses the process of heritage-making in a locality characterized by complex histories of forced and voluntary mobility in a form of colonization, migration and tourism. It focuses on ...the eruption of discontent concerning a restoration of local memorial site for dead Japanese colonizers in a small county within the north-eastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang. Using the concept of heritage controversy, the article presents a detailed analysis of successive phases of events dubbed “memorial drama” in order to situate the dissonance in heritage-making within the wider social processes of mobility, development and change in the rural county. In tracing the local attempts to expand the officially sanctioned messages behind the memorial site, as well as their failure, the article argues that alternative voices in otherwise strictly controlled heritage-making exists in China, despite being highly sensitive to changing political climate and popular opinion.
This paper considers how the legacy of communism and revolution has become the focus of interest among Western tourists in post-communist Bucharest. It argues that 'communist heritage' tourism - the ...consumption of key sights and sites associated with the Ceausescu regime and its overthrow - has emerged as a particular form of cultural or heritage tourism for special interest tourists. However, this is a heritage which is defined and constructed entirely outside Romania. Within Romania itself there is understandably little desire to remember the period of communist rule, and the legacy of this period is powerfully dissonant with the country's post-communist aspirations. Consequently, as a consideration of two case studies illustrates, there is no concern to interpret the legacy of communism for tourists; instead there is an attempt to deny or airbrush out this period of the country's history.
Remembrance Byrne, Jo
Beyond Trawlertown,
02/2022
Book Chapter
This chapter examines Hull’s distant-water fishery in transition from active industry to maritime heritage, placing it as the final yet ongoing episode in the history of the industry. It draws upon ...theories of place memory, heritage dissonance, Smith’s Authorised Heritage Discourse and Robertson’s concept of Heritage from Below to deliver an account of how one community’s feelings of disinheritance led to community protest and alternative expressions of heritage. It reveals a messiness of remembering, where heritage is contested between elite and grassroots organisations, between civic and community needs and between and within communities themselves. From previous chapters, the understanding gained of the extreme nature, place-based attachments, close knit networks and rapid contraction of Hull’s fishery offers a deeper insight into the processes of heritage and why remembrance became of such community importance. Amidst tangible successes and losses, the chapter also suggests that the struggle for remembrance itself has unintentionally become a form of intangible heritage, keeping the past meaningful and alive in a way that a fixed representation may not have achieved. Ultimately, the outcome is one of reclaimed identity and belonging through an ongoing conversation with the past.
