Dissonant Heritage in Tourism

Confronting Difficult Pasts in Italy and Beyond
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-6290-9
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Heritage and Memory Studies

Interest in dissonant heritage has grown significantly in recent years. Difficult legacies, such as monuments and urban and artistic works, as well as intangible personal and communal experiences are linked to dictatorships, regimes, wars, slavery, and exploitation. In some places, a dissonant heritage creates tension. In other places, difficult histories are elided or ignored. But forgetting is not the solution. Critical analysis can help us face the past and process it in order to move forward. This applies to tourism as well: ‘difficult’ places, monuments and experiences become opportunities for gaining and creating knowledge for a public interested in historical issues. At the same time, tourist presence is an incentive for communities to better comprehend their contested past(s). This volume contains contributions by scholars from various countries and different backgrounds, such as historians, architects, and anthropologists, who deal with this topic from different angles. The volume is divided into two parts: the first part concentrates on Italy, while the second part covers other countries in the world.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pasini, Maria Paola

Maffi, Luciano

Gregorini, Giovanni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction The Sustainability of Memory: Dissonant Heritage in Tourism 2.The Social Republic on Lake Garda: A “Diffuse Museum” Project 3. The Seaplane Base at Desenzano: History, Oblivion, New Proposals 4. Re-Semanticising Dissonant Fascist Architecture: Twentieth-Century History through Arts in the Arengario Palace, Milan 5. Creating an Educational Tourism Product for Dissonant Heritage in Forlì: A Co-construction by Local Students and Associations 6. Exporting Italian Architecture: Libya’s Colonial Legacy between Dissonant Heritage and Tourist Opportunity 7. Dissonant Heritage between the Lines: Southern Africa in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives 8. The Power of History: Can We Forget Our Past? The Role of South African Dissonant Monuments in Tourism 9. Leopold’s Legacy: (Un)covering Controversial Heritage at the Royal Museums of Art and History 10. Contested Heritage in the Spanish-Speaking Countries of the Americas and Its Impact on Tourism 11. Reconciliation and Tourism: Visitor Reflections on Australian Indigenous Tourism Experiences 12. Banalization of Evil? The Communist Heritage in Poland from Rejection to Commercialization 13. Urban Tourism and Difficult Heritage: Management Challenges and Solutions in the Former Riga Jewish Ghetto Area 14. Privatizing Dark Past: From Exile and Adjudication to Desolate Tourism 15. Staying with the Past: Tourism and Controversy at the Former Prisoner of War Camp of Cultybraggan, Scotland 16. ‘Rather a White Elephant’: Narrating the Life of Duff House, Scotland, in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: From Dereliction to Rehabilitation

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Paola Pasini, Ph. D, adjunct professor in Economic History at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She teaches tourism history and international tourism communication.

Luciano Maffi, Ph.D is Professor in Economic and Global History at the University of Parma and has previously held positions at the University of Salento, Bocconi University, University of Genoa, and University of Brescia.

Giovanni Gregorini, is Full Professor of Economic History at the Catholic University of Milan, where he heads the Department of History and Philology. His research interests include public finance in the seventeenth-century State of Milan and the history of Lombard banking and finance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.