Coconstructing heritage at the gettysburg storyscape

Chronis, Athinodoros

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2004.07.009

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“…These multiple benefits are found to be embedded in a cultural narrative that is formed by the information provided at the site and is mediated by imagination. Chronis [80,81] and Rickly-Boyd [82] provide insights into the co-construction dynamics of cultural narratives at heritage sites as consumption experiences emerging through the interaction between marketers and tourists. The experiential outcome of the narrative construction process is a connection with the heritage site story that provides a deeper understanding and becomes personally relevant and meaningful [83].…”

Section: The Tourism Experience At Heritage Sitesmentioning

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Visitors’ Experience, Place Attachment and Sustainable Behaviour at Cultural Heritage Sites: A Conceptual Framework

2017

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Sustainable tourism research has attracted wide interest from scholars and practitioners. While several heritage sites are mandated to provide optimum visitor satisfaction with increasing competition in the market, managers of heritage sites face growing challenges in striking a balance between consumption and conservation. This calls for promoting more sustainable behaviours among consumers of heritage. This study proposes a conceptualization of sustainable behaviour for heritage consumers. Using the attitude-behaviour relationship underpinned by the Theory of Reasoned Action, it develops and proposes a conceptual framework that integrates visitors' heritage experiences, their attachment to heritage sites, and their general and site-specific sustainable heritage behaviour and presents their interrelationships as proposed hypotheses. Theoretical contributions and practical implications for heritage site managers are discussed.

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Section: The Tourism Experience At Heritage Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visitors’ Experience, Place Attachment and Sustainable Behaviour at Cultural Heritage Sites: A Conceptual Framework

2017

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“…Yet, to limit the discussion merely to the production or consumption of such landscapes can overlook the possibility that experiences and interactions at these places are often complex, thus giving rise to the more mutually constituted narratives and discourses (Chronis, 2005;Johnson, 1986). At the Village, it was indeed observed how the local people go beyond the appreciation/critiquing of formal representations of culture to engaging in their own practices and formulating their own narratives as a means of enhancing personal resonance.…”

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“…For sure, heritage can also be interpreted less as what is intended but (re)appropriated 'from below' by visitors seeking to enhance the site's resonance. Here the visitors may employ their own personal associations and practices to overcome limits of formal representations, hence facilitating identity 'co-constructions' to better relate to heritage places (Chronis, 2005). It is to revealing some of these exemplars of heritage-making 'from below' that this paper seeks to do through the case of the Sarawak Cultural Village, focusing on local visitors although the argument may also extend to foreigners.…”

Section: The Politics Of Identity and Heritage Co-constructionmentioning

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Informal heritage-making at the Sarawak Cultural Village, East Malaysia

Muzaini

2016

Tourism Geographies

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Scholars have always been fascinated with cultural theme parks as tourism attractions or as vehicles for identity formations. With respect to the latter, the focus has been on how these consumption landscapes also portend spaces of representation that mobilize certain attributes of ethnic groups within territorial boundaries as a means to bind them together and link them to their terrains, although these ideological exercises are often times contested by the very people they seek to depict. Yet, comparably less emphasis has been paid on how local visitors can themselves draw upon their own cultural reserves to rethink the meanings of these spaces to make them more relatable. Drawing on participant ethnography and interviews with key staff and visitors, this paper examines how locals have sought to unmake and remake one such theme park, the Sarawak Cultural Village, to enhance resonance for them and for other visitors, at times even going against intended narratives. In so doing, the paper extends current scholarship beyond seeing themed spaces just as places where the formal employment of heritage for identity-building may be contested; they are also where meanings can be (re)negotiated 'from below', proffering more possibilities for co-constructive heritage-making.

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“…The co-creation experience results from the interaction of an individual at a specific place and time and within the context of a specific act and environment (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2004). Chronis (2005Chronis ( , 2012 provides a number of examples of co-creation within the specific context of battlefields in his studies of Gettysburg (a key battle in the American Civil War of 1861-65). For example, he (2005, p.394) demonstrates that the story of the battle represents a type of 'puzzle' which visitors create for themselves:…”

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‘Lest we forget’: a veteran and son share a ‘warfare tourism’ experience

Fallon

Robinson

2016

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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‘Warfare tourism’ represents an increasingly significant dimension of contemporary tourism. This paper provides a fresh perspective on participation in ‘warfare tourism’ by investigating the behaviour and experiences of a living veteran and his son returning to two theatres of war in which the veteran had served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Active interviews with the two family members were used to gather rich data regarding the two extended trips, which had been funded by ‘Heroes Return’, to Australia in 2012 and Sri Lanka in 2013. The findings indicate that some of the facets of visiting the fallen at other dark tourism sites, such as empathetic identification and personal connection, are also very relevant to trips shared between the living. However, with the living these contribute to a powerful co-created experience in which ‘closer’ bonds between the travellers can be developed. Furthermore, whilst the experiences at times represented ‘bitter-sweet’ nostalgia for the veteran, they also provided the son with the opportunity to ‘look through his father’s eyes’ from both a past and current perspective. Given that there will be war veterans as long as conflicts exist, the results have valuable messages for all those dealing with veterans in the future

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Coconstructing heritage at the gettysburg storyscape

Cited by 212 publications

References 32 publications

Visitors’ Experience, Place Attachment and Sustainable Behaviour at Cultural Heritage Sites: A Conceptual Framework

Visitors’ Experience, Place Attachment and Sustainable Behaviour at Cultural Heritage Sites: A Conceptual Framework

Informal heritage-making at the Sarawak Cultural Village, East Malaysia

‘Lest we forget’: a veteran and son share a ‘warfare tourism’ experience

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