Tourism development in Bagan, Myanmar: perceptions of its influences upon young peoples’ cultural identity

Rich, Anna-Katharina; Franck, Anja K.

doi:10.1080/21568316.2015.1114013

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“…This result confirms the existence of a tension between tradition and modernity in urban identities in Myanmar (Roberts 2019, p. 406), and especially in Mandalay, still viewed as the stronghold of Burmese tradition. It is also a fact in line with what has already been highlighted by Rick and Franck (2016) in a previous study on the changes caused by ''contact'' between young Burmans and international tourists in Bagan, again in Myanmar: while on one hand, the young people perceive a sense of confusion and conflict in the relationship with other cultures, on the other they are starting to practise and implement their own ''hybrid'' and ''glocalized'' versions of identity.…”

Section: Urban Issues At Stakesupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Following the country's opening to international tourism in 2011, Mandalay recorded just over 100,000 arrivals in 2012 and almost 1 million in 2015, with the possibility of exceeding 2 million arrivals in 2021 according to the most optimistic forecasts (LaGeS 2016). Clearly, as has already happened in other areas of the country (Rick and Franck 2016), tourism will constitute another important factor in the city's transformation, in economic as well as social and cultural terms.…”

Section: The Local Context: Mandalaymentioning

confidence: 94%

“…This aspect is of particular relevance in light of the highly intangible features of urban change such as that related to political, societal and cultural aspects, local identities, and everyday experiences and perceptions. The majority of studies on the processes of urbanization in Myanmar seen ''from below'' (that is, from the perspective of citizens) are recent and mostly centered on Yangon (Matelski and Sabrié 2019;Sabrié 2019;Kyed 2019;Forbes 2019;Hong 2020), with the exception of a survey located in Bagan and mostly related to the impact of tourism development (Rick and Franck 2016).…”

Section: Questioning Urban Change In Southeast Asia and Myanmarmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Everyday geographies in the changing city: subjective photo-routes in Mandalay, Myanmar

Puttilli

2020

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This work upholds the importance of questioning young people to find out their point of view on urban transformation and grasp their perception and representation of the changes. Hence, the paper presents the methodology and results of an autophotography activity, and more specifically photo-routing organized in March 2018 with a group of young undergraduates at Mandalay University, Myanmar. In the sphere of this activity, the participants were asked to reflect on their relationship with the urban space and to use a camera to capture significant places and situations in their everyday experience of the city, with the goal of exploring their personal point of view on the changes occurring in it, both from a tangible and intangible perspective, in addition to how they are reflected in the everyday practice of the city. The idea at the basis of the research-intervention is that the focus on everyday life through qualitative and visual investigation techniques enables the emergence of some of the-both conscious and not-more-thanrepresentational ways in which people-a group of young adults in this specific case-perceive and live the processual nature of the city. Results show that the photo-route tool proved to be particularly effective in stimulating a critical gaze on the city and the changes underway, to acquire awareness of the constantly inbecoming nature of the places and reflect in an introspective manner on their own life course in relation to the city. Thus, the paper provides a contribution ''from below'' to the reflections on urban transformations going on in Southeast Asian cities and, more precisely, in Myanmar.Keywords Photo-routes Á Young adults Á Urban change Á MandalayThe intervention was carried out in collaboration with Stefano Bartolini, at the time research fellow at the University of Florence, who took part in devising and conducting the activity and took care of the technical aspects linked to the acquisition of the geo-referenced images on GIS. Thanks also go to Dr. Nyo Nyo, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Mandalay, for her logistical and organizational support.

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Section: Urban Issues At Stakesupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: The Local Context: Mandalaymentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Questioning Urban Change In Southeast Asia and Myanmarmentioning

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Puttilli

2020

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“…The kind of media consumption exhibited by each group of fans depends in part on their psychological perception towards development processes in their own country. Myanmar is a country that has recently embraced economic liberalization (Rich & Franck, 2016). Myanmar youth fans, therefore, consume mediated images of Thai modernity that help them engage with their fast-changing society.…”

Section: Fan Studies In Transnational Context and The Illumination On...mentioning

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Consuming Modernity and Nostalgia: A Case Study of Cross-border Representations and Fandom of Thailand-Myanmar Transnational Cinema

Metaveevinij¹

2019

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This paper explores representations of identities and fandom in two Southeast Asia border-crossing films, Myanmar in Love in Bangkok (2014) and From Bangkok to Mandalay (2016). Both films have already been exhibited in Thailand and Myanmar and have gained a huge following in both countries. Myanmar in Love in Bangkok portrays a contemporary migrant situation: It is a love story between a male Burmese migrant worker and a Thai woman played by Kaew Korravee, a Thai leading actress who has become famous in Myanmar because of her portrayal of this modern and unconventional character. Alternatively, From Bangkok to Mandalay, which notably presents Burmese and Siamese cultural heritage, has successfully created a feeling of nostalgia among the Thai audience, resulting in fan tourism to Myanmar. Comparing these two cases, I argue that consuming modernity and nostalgia are the main driving forces of the cross-border representations and their subsequent fandom. This paper also engages with the existing fan studies framework put forward by Koichi Iwabuchi and extends the studies of transnational fans further by considering the Southeast Asian sociocultural context.

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“…Turizmin kültürel yapı üzerindeki olumlu ve olumsuz anlamda neden olduğu değişimlerin yerel halkın algıları, gözlemleri ve düşünceleri vasıtasıyla Alaçatı'da ne ölçüde meydana geldiğini ortaya koymak amaçlanmıştır. Konuyla ilgili literatür incelendiğinde turizm ve kültürel kimlik arasındaki ilişki ile ilgili az sayıda çalışma bulunmaktadır (Brown, 1990;Edgecombe, 2004;Bozetka, 2013;Caneen, 2014;Rich ve Franck, 2015). Bu çalışmalar turizm gelişimiyle kültürel kimliğin güçlü bir ilişkisi olduğuna ve turistlerin destinasyon tercihlerinde kültürel kimlik ögelerinin etkisinin bulunduğuna yönelik bulgular ortaya koymaktadırlar; fakat daha önce Alaçatı'nın kültürel kimliğinin turizm gelişimiyle ilişkisi olup olmadığını; olduysa ne ölçüde ve hangi etkenlerle olduğunu bulmayı amaçlayan bir araştırma olmaması bakımından bu araştırmanın önemli olabileceği düşünülmektedir.…”

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Turi̇zm Geli̇şi̇mi̇ İle Kültürel Ki̇mli̇k Olgusu Arasindaki̇ İli̇şki̇: Alaçati Örneği̇

Albayrak¹,

Özmen²

2018

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi İşletme Fakültesi Dergisi

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Bu çalışmada kültürel kimlik olgusu ile Alaçatı'daki turizm gelişimi arasındaki ilişki değerlendirilmektedir. Bu çerçevede Alaçatı'nın kültürel yapısının incelenmesi ve bu yapının turizm gelişimiyle olan ilişkisinin saptanması amacıyla "Alaçatı'nın turistik gelişimiyle Alaçatı'nın kültürel kimliğinin ilişkisi nedir?" sorusundan hareketle nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden biri olan görüşme tekniği kullanılmıştır. Amaçlı ve zincirleme örnekleme yöntemine uygun olarak seçilen idari ve yerel yönetici, turizm işletmecileri, şehir planlamacısı, turizm derneği başkanı ve yerel halk dahil olmak üzere toplamda 15 katılımcı ile yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu kullanılarak derinlemesine görüşme yapılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda Alaçatı'nın hem mübadele hem de başta İstanbullular olmak üzere yurtiçinden de aldığı göçler nedeniyle yerel halkın merkezden uzaklaşması, kültürel kimlik ögelerinin unutulmasına yol açtığından Alaçatı'daki turizm gelişiminin kültürel kimlikle olan ilişkisinin zayıf olduğu görülmüştür. Alaçatı'daki var olan turistik gelişimin başlıca nedenleri olarak rüzgar sörfü ve mimari yapının bozulmamış olması ortaya konulmaktadır.

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Tourism development in Bagan, Myanmar: perceptions of its influences upon young peoples’ cultural identity

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Everyday geographies in the changing city: subjective photo-routes in Mandalay, Myanmar

Everyday geographies in the changing city: subjective photo-routes in Mandalay, Myanmar

Consuming Modernity and Nostalgia: A Case Study of Cross-border Representations and Fandom of Thailand-Myanmar Transnational Cinema

Turi̇zm Geli̇şi̇mi̇ İle Kültürel Ki̇mli̇k Olgusu Arasindaki̇ İli̇şki̇: Alaçati Örneği̇

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