Alternate Routes: Interpretive Trails, Resistance, and the View from East Jerusalem

Taylor, Evan

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“…Inevitably, a trail is only a suggested route and there are visitors who will resist instructions, sabotage itineraries and subvert the hegemonic message of a themed route and indeed trails have been designed to encourage visitors to select elements of a story and compare historical themes with contemporary street culture (Shaw & MacLeod, 2000). Alternative trails can be offered as in the case of the City of David where an unofficial guidebook and tour are offered that challenge the signage, include the views of local residents and focus on a more critical approach to the complex history of Jerusalem than that presented in the official trail (Taylor, 2015). Such 'resistance strategies' at tourist trails have received little critical attention but would certainly repay further study as Taylor suggests (2015, p. 118).…”

Section: Trails and The Performance Of Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

The role of trails in the creation of tourist space

MacLeod

2016

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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Trails and routes are increasingly ubiquitous features within the tourism landscape and although their role and usefulness as applied tourism products has been analysed, they remain undertheorized within the academic literature. This article addresses this gap by exploring the role of trails within the socio-cultural construction of space. In particular, the potential function of trails in creating themed, static spaces is analysed and the concept of museumisation is employed to further illustrate the capacity of trails to reconfigure spaces within specific cultural framings which may exclude local identity and yet are consumed by the unquestioning visitor. However, the article goes on to use more recent paradigms such as tourism's performance turn and the associated concept of embodiment to further explore the trail's potency in promoting a more engaged, multi-vocal and sensory experience of place. Using these contemporary approaches to the role of the tourist and the cultural construction of place, the article employs a range of examples to argue for the efficacy of trails as flexible, interpretive tools that allow a multiplicity of stories to be told and encourage visitors towards a more engaged interaction within the spaces through which they tour.

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Section: Trails and The Performance Of Spacementioning

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The role of trails in the creation of tourist space

MacLeod

2016

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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“…In land-use conflicts, underlying conflicts may not be visible, such as power relations and unresolved historical legacies. One example and an interesting argument posed by Taylor [89] relating to this study is that the trail itself is a powerful place for representation and that, through attributes such as location, design, and signage for visitors, it becomes a coproducer of a landscape important to specific groups. In his study of an interpretive heritage trail in East Jerusalem, it became clear that, by bringing dominant narratives forward through the trail, it possesses the privilege of excluding other stories of the urban landscape.…”

Section: Conflicts Over Trails In a Multifunctional Landscapementioning

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Negotiating Improved Multifunctional Landscape Use: Trails as Facilitators for Collaboration Among Stakeholders

2019

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Trails are significant features in landscapes, and many ancient pathways have developed into routes of great importance for recreation and tourism in contemporary societies. Nevertheless, international research on recreational trails has hitherto mainly focused on managerial and environmental aspects of trails and less on trails from a social science perspective, such as conflict management. This study explores the role of recreational trails as a potential tool for managing conflicts in a multifunctional landscape. The findings originate from a case study of the southern Jämtland mountain region in Sweden, an area where land-use conflicts exist and where tourism is a major concern. The study examines the recreational trail as an applied example where actors in the mountain landscape “negotiate” and collaborate. Through the recreational trail, dialogue and discussions are made possible among stakeholders. Findings show that trails can function as facilitators for communication and can thus enhance the possibilities of building trust and promoting collaboration between actors. This research contributes to the existing literature on handling multiple land-use interests and adds to previous knowledge by taking on a rather new approach, where the recreational trail becomes a facilitator for communication.

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“…Through processes of selection, organisation and interpretation, heritage walks indicate which sites are deemed 'worthy' of preservation, visitation and remembrance. As such, the walks can privilege particular perspectives over others, reflecting dominant historical narratives or an 'authorised heritage discourse', or, conversely, manifesting as subaltern projects (Smith, 2006) that present and legitimise alternative, marginalised or untold histories (Taylor, 2015;MacLeod, 2017;Barber, 2018). This article is concerned with self-guided, government-generated, purposive urban heritage walks on the Gold Coast, Australia.…”

Section: Conceptualising Heritage Walks Trails and Routesmentioning

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Urban heritage walks in a rapidly changing city: tensions between preservation and development on the Gold Coast, Australia

Cantillon

2019

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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This article examines the emergence of urban heritage walks on the Gold Coast, Australia. As a popular beachside mass tourism destination, the Gold Coast has a longstanding reputation for rapid development and for lacking historical and cultural depth. In this context, heritage walks present an opportunity to reorient the city's identity and to stage a sense of heritage in the urban environment.Focusing on a case study of the Gold Coast's Southport Heritage Walk (SHW), this article aims to analyse the discursive, material and political dimensions of urban heritage walks, and how practices of heritage unfold in places marked by rapidly changing urban landscapes and resident populations. Drawing on observational fieldwork, as well as interviews with key individuals involved in designing the walks, the article discusses the dominant narratives of history and urban identity enshrined in the SHW, and how these discourses are encountered and interpreted within the context of the contemporary materialities of lived space. Although the SHW aims to highlight the city as a place with a rich history and heritage, the walk's missing interpretive markers and scarce remnants of built heritage instead emphasise the city's ongoing tensions between development and preservation.

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Alternate Routes: Interpretive Trails, Resistance, and the View from East Jerusalem

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

The role of trails in the creation of tourist space

The role of trails in the creation of tourist space

Negotiating Improved Multifunctional Landscape Use: Trails as Facilitators for Collaboration Among Stakeholders

Urban heritage walks in a rapidly changing city: tensions between preservation and development on the Gold Coast, Australia

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