(Re)visiting spaces of home: German heimat tourists 'returning' to Timisoara, Romania.

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Andrea Bieber ◽  
Werner Gilde ◽  
Desmond Wee
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Tourist Flow

Abstract This chapter explores the diaspora of the Banat Swabian culture, their sense of identity in Germany, and their relation to 'Heimat tourism' through the perception of place in Timisoara in the region of the Banat, Romania. It enables understanding of the impacts of Heimat tourism and the implications for consumer behaviour in the visitor economy and also investigates place-making processes and the (re)creation of destination spaces through experience and narratives. This chapter aims to illustrate how cultural identity, tourist flow, and the perception of place contribute towards the making of heimat, to show how places that are both real and imagined at the same time reinforce a particular tourist gaze and examine how such tourist imaginaries create a 'Heimat tourism' that fosters a hermeneutic cycle perpetuating new meanings of self.

'Ideal Scheme' or 'Passing over the Rainbow': Transmission of the Georgian Cultural Identity among the Fereydani Gorjīs

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamta Khalvashi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Identity Maintenance ◽  
Sense Of Identity

AbstractConceptualising Fereydani Georgians, who have lived in Iran for almost 400 years, I have always found myself asking how such groups manage to survive as groups at all and why these kinds of people strive to maintain their sense of identity or retain their cultural memory? I place the concept of identity at the heart of the analysis. Therefore, this article explores the main aspects of identity maintenance and transmission through the presentation of a number of ethnographic materials based on my own research among Fereydani repatriates now living in Tbilisi. I try to show how certain traditions, rituals, customs, etc. are transmitted from generation to generation in the place where the environment is not native, and how such cultural artefacts express the elements of identity.

Hou Xiaoxian as Ambassador

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Dennis Lo
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
Southern Chinese ◽  
Production Environments ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Location Shooting

This chapter closely traces the evolution of Hou Xiaoxian's contentious modes of place making while he shot on-location in China for the “Taiwan Trilogy," where Southern Chinese locales sometimes substituted for Taiwan’s historical settings. Location shooting in China for City of Sadness presented Hou with his first opportunity to perform a role as a cultural ambassador in an unprecedented period of cross-strait geopolitical thaw. After cross-strait relations became more normalized, Hou widely publicized his intentions of location shooting in Fujian for The Puppetmaster (1993). During this shoot, Hou articulated his theory of “authenticating life,” or the reenactment of lived experience. To authenticate the life of famed Taiwanese puppeteer Li Tianlu, whom he believed to be a living embodiment of Chinese-ness, Hou re-staged live budaixi shows in Fujian, hoping the environmental aura of present-day China would conjure for Li memories of colonial-era Taiwan. Assistant director Chen Huaien, however, counters that it was Taiwanese culture which required salvaging, not China’s. “Authenticating life,” Chen implied, relied on inauthentic means of reenactment to produce what only felt superficially authentic. The final section explores this contradiction as it is manifested in Good Men, Good Women (1995) – Hou’s first, and final film to feature present-day Chinese settings. I demonstrate that the filmmakers were unable to experience their production environments in Guangdong as anything more than through a “tourist gaze.” Hou finally experienced the constraints of “authenticating life,” and more broadly, the complexities of salvaging cultural Chinese heritage in an increasingly volatile period of cross-strait relations.

Grave Look at History

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-198
Author(s):  
Catherine Brew
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Great Capacity ◽  
Place Meaning ◽  
Interpretive Approach

Cemeteries are seldom what they seem. A headstone tells a brief tale, but what if there are no headstones? Is it possible to extract more than the obvious? The dearth of information most frequently encountered necessitates a more interpretive approach. As documents of social history, Australian burial places have a great capacity to reveal not only how people died, but how they lived. In providing a tangible and evocative link to past communities, the history found in cemeteries acts as an insightful ingredient in shaping cultural identity. By ‘reading’ these cultural landscapes, the wider implications of identity, meaning making and the value of individual belonging and wellbeing can be explored. The notion of ‘place making’ and ‘place meaning’ suggests a bigger responsibility to social cohesion and personal development than may be first considered.

scholarly journals IL CONFLITTO TRA INDIVIDUO E SISTEMA: VERSO LA COSTRUZIONE DELLA NUOVA IDENTITÀ CULTURALE NEL ROMANZO „I GRANDI OCCHI DEL MARE” DI LEONARD GUACI

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Karol Karp
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Sense Of Identity

The aim of the article is to analyse the theme of cultural identity in the novel „I grandi occhi del mare” by Leonard Guaci. Starting from Gioia di Cristofaro Longo’s theoretical assumptions concerning the connection between identity and culture, we stress the influence of Italian culture on the sense of identity felt by the characters who represent Albanians living in the period of Enver Hoxha’s communist dictatorship. The analysis also draws on the theories of scholars such us Hannah Arendt, Homi Bhabha, Dominique Chancé, Giovanni Marchetti, Nora Moll.  

scholarly journals Elegies and Genealogies of Place: Spatial Belonging in the Italian/American Culture and Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 125-146
Author(s):  
Eva Pelayo Sañudo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Little Italy

This article examines the poetics and politics of place in Italian/American culture and in Tina De Rosa’s novel Paper Fish (1980), particularly its portrayal of ‘elegies and genealogies of place’, an appropriate framework through which to read the importance of spatial belonging. It investigates the way in which cultural identity is mostly built on both imagined communities and imagined places, as is common in migrant and diasporic cultures, through the evocation or creation of ancestors and the homeland. In addition, the Italian/American community leaves the characteristic Little Italy enclaves or undergoes displacement due to urban renewal projects and the move to the suburbs in the mid-twentieth century, which is sometimes compared to a second migration or diaspora. As a consequence, former urban enclaves come to assume a centrality as lostsanctuaries, which is captured in the trope of the Old Neighbourhood. The article contributes to existing contemporary research on the binomial placeidentity by tracing how key events of US urban history impacted on Italian/American culture. Furthermore, the goal is to offer new critical readings of Paper Fish through the focus on place-making.

Advancing tourist gaze research and authenticating the native-visitor: introduction to a special issue honoring work by John Urry

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arch G. Woodside
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
Additional Work ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Meta Review ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Purpose – This introductory paper aims to offer a rudimentary model that describes the antecedent recipes for creating native-visitors. The paper describes what is unique and valuable about the seven articles that follow in their descriptions and explanations of the behavior of native-tourists. This special issue is to honor the originality and value of the contributions of tourism research’s leading critic, John Urry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a paradigm that includes eight profiles of tourists identified by low/high conjunctions of knowledge, training and authentication of performances of tourism places. The study calls for a normative stance that tourists should develop a sense of obligation to learn before visiting to enrich understanding of what they are seeing and to reduce the negative outcomes of the tourist gaze. The method includes describing the unique and valuable contributions in each of the seven following articles in the issue. Findings – The analysis and outcomes are viewable best as propositions from a thought experiment. The seven articles that follow the introduction are appropriate data for a meta-review of the development of new meanings of tourism generated from the concept of native-tourist. Research limitations/implications – This study may spur necessary additional work to confirm that native-tourists do interpret performing tourist places differently and more richly than naïve tourists. Originality/value – The article is high in originality in establishing the benefits from studying native-tourists as unique contributors to clarifying and deepening the meanings of tourism drama enactments.

scholarly journals GLOBURBIA: Suburban place-making admist diversity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Immigrant Populations ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Toronto, with half of its population born outside of Canada and speaking more than 140 languages, is well known as one of the most multicultural cities in the world. Its ethno-cultural diversity is often manifested in urban landscapes with long-lasting imprints of ethnic-oriented facilities and institutions. With increasing suburbanization of immigrant populations, ethnic neighbourhoods have speckled the suburban landscapes. The stereotypically homogeneous suburban landscapes have been transformed by ethnic communities who bring new identities and new meanings to the space. What has become imperative for suburban municipalities to understand is how these ethnic neighbourhoods have emerged and evolved, how ethnic communities have played a role in suburban place-making, and more importantly, what municipal planning interventions (e.g., planning policies and processes) are appropriate and effective to enhance the advantages of urban diversity and manage unprecedented social, cultural, economic, physical, and political changes that challenge conventional suburban planning. This documentary explores the increasing diversity in Toronto’s suburbs and the place-making challenges and opportunities. The research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. To link to this documentary: https://youtu.be/ODBnO0v_hpk

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