Re-Investing Authenticity : : Tourism, Place and Emotions / / ed. by Britta Timm Knudsen, Anne Marit Waade.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Agergaard, Sine,; Christensen, Dorthe Refslund,; Gran, Anne-Britt,; Gyimóthy, Szilvia,; Hornskov, Søren Buhl,; Jansson, André,; Jensen, Jakob Linaa,; Knudsen, Britta Timm,; Larsen, Hanne Pico,; Mansson, Maria,; Nielsen, Niels Kayser,; Ooi, Can-Seng,; Povlsen, Karen Klitgaard,; Ringgaard, Dan,; Sandbye, Mette,; Sandvik, Kjetil,; Selberg, Torunn,; Sjöholm, Carina,; Stöber, Birgit,; Waade, Anne Marit,; Østergaard, Jesper,
• HerausgeberIn: Knudsen, Britta Timm,; Waade, Anne Marit,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

From the highly influential concept of 'staged authenticity' discussed by Dean MacCannell, to the general claim of longing for authenticity on behalf of all Western consumers, made by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, it is obvious that the concept of authenticity is still worth considering. This ground-breaking book re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling that derives from what we do at / in places. In Re-investing Authenticity - Tourism, Place and Emotions international scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, examine contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices: From cultural place branding to individual pilgrim performances; from intensified experiences of imaginary crime scenes to the rhetorical features of the encounter with the traumatic and; from photography performing memories of place to experiences of wilderness producing excitement, this book demonstrates how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience: Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion -- SECTION ONE STAGING AND PRACTICING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 2 Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations -- Chapter 3 The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious -- Chapter 4 'The Summer We All Went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity -- SECTION TWO BRANDING AND MATERIALISING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 5 Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore -- Chapter 6 On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of Øresund -- Chapter 7 A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California -- SECTION THREE RE-WRITING AND RE-MEDIATING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 8 Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity -- Chapter 9 Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site -- Chapter 10 Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality -- Chapter 11 Murder Walks in Ystad CARINASJÖHOLM -- Chapter 12 Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel -- SECTION FOUR RE-EMPOWERING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 13 Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City' through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories -- Chapter 14 Globe1: A Place of Integration or an 'Ethnic Oasis'? -- Chapter 15 Online Tourism: Just like Being There? -- SECTION FIVE EMBODYING SPATIAL MYTHOLOGIES -- Chapter 16 Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Revisited -- Chapter 17 Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self -- Chapter 18 Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground -- References -- Index