Gazing at Egypt's museums: toward a new internationalism

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa M. El-Ashmouni
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Cultural Authority ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the transformation of the concept of cultural tourism within the sociopolitical empowerments, changes of visual realms and normative contexts, which is embedded within museums as institutions.Design/methodology/approachThese discussions will be conceptualized through investigating the shifts in the metamorphosis of the architectural vocabulary of Egypt's museums between nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis will be highlighted through connecting both the notion of the “tourist reflexivity” of John Urry and Jonas Larsen in The Tourist Gaze 3.0 (2011) and the notion of the “interstitial spaces” and “new internationalism” of Homi Bhabha in The Location of Culture (1994). The analysis expands to interrogate these two notions as prelude for reflecting on representations of colonial and postcolonial museums in Egypt, starting from the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo (c. 1863) to the most recent, the Egyptian Grand Museum, Cairo (c. 2002).FindingsThe analysis revealed that while colonial museums endeavored to stage external cultural authority and postcolonial ones staged traditions' liminality through “New internationalism”, they created spatiotemporal interstices. This finding, while is a timely example with the rising global cultural encounters that emerged during this transformative age, it challenges the collective imaginations of architects to liberate from traditional nationalism.Originality/valueThe paper offers novel theoretical and architectural analysis of Egypt's museums through the exigency of nationalism and “new internationalism”. The encounter between both notions is a timely example given the recent involvements by the “Modern State” and the recent pandemic upheaval that revealed the inevitability of globalism and the discursivity of such notions.

Tourists’ views on Islamic spiritual tours (case study: Yazd, Iran)

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Reza Bahadori ◽  
Neda Torabi Farsani ◽  
Zahed Shafiei
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spiritual Tourism ◽  
Yazd City

Purpose Spiritual tourism is a niche tourism studied under cultural tourism. Religious events play an important role in attracting spiritual tourists. This paper aims to highlight the introduction of Yazd city (Iran) as a new spiritual tourism destination with emphasis on Shiite religious events and rituals. This research has the following three major purposes to assess the motivation of international tourists for participating in spiritual tours, examine the attitude of tourists towards spiritual tourism activities and investigate the effect on international tourists’ perceptions and views of spiritual tours organized in the Muharram and Ashura events. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted in Yazd, Iran. Data for this study were collected through a questionnaire which was distributed in organized spiritual tours during the Muharram and Ashura events. A quantitative method was used and the data were analyzed using SPSS tools. Findings On the basis of the results of this study, it can be concluded that international tourists are interested in spiritual tourism activities and attractions in Yazd city, and spiritual tours can be a strategy against Islamophobia. Originality/value This research paper investigated the attitude of tourists to spiritual tourism activities and the effect on international tourists’ perceptions and views of spiritual tours organized in the Muharram and Ashura as the most important events in Shiite culture.

scholarly journals Contemporary architecture of Cairo (1990–2020): mutational plurality of “ISMS”, decolonialism, and cosmopolitanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 121-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa M. El-Ashmouni ◽  
Ashraf M. Salama
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Content Type ◽  
American University ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Egyptian Architecture

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical account on the contemporary architecture of Cairo with emphasis on the past three decades, from the early 1990s to the present. The paper critically analyses narratives of the plurality of “isms”, within architectural vocabulary and discourse, that resulted from the contextual particularities that shaped it. Design/methodology/approach Three lines of inquiry are envisioned as overarching aspects of architecture: the chronological, the interventional and the representational. These discussions are underpinned by the discourse of decolonialisation and cosmopolitanism, posited sequentially by Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth (1961), and Ulrich Beck in The Cosmopolitan Vision (2004). The analysis expands to interrogate these two notions as prelude for reflecting on representations of selected projects: The Smart Village (2001); the Great Egyptian Museum (2002), Al-Azhar Park (2005), American University in Cairo New Campus (2008/2009), and the New Administrative Capital (2018). Findings The investigation on the interventional and the representational levels via aspects of discursivity and contradictions highlights that decolonisation and cosmopolitanism are two inseparable facets in the architectural practice in Egypt’s 21st century. These indivisible notions are based on idiosyncratic core to human experience, which emerged from concurrent overturning historical and secular everyday life striving to suppress ideological supremacy. Research limitations/implications Further detailed examples can be developed to offer discerning elucidations relevant to both notions of cosmopolitanism and decolonialisation. Originality/value The paper offers novel theoretical analysis of Cairo’s most recent architecture. The reflection on the notions of decolonialisation and cosmopolitanism is a timely example of the complex cultural encounters that have shaped the Egyptian architecture, given the recent interventions by the “Modern State” that legitimised such notions.

Emporda music festivals as tourism diversification tools

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Diaz Soria ◽  
Asunción Blanco-Romero ◽  
Gemma Canoves I. Valiente
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on territorial dynamics generated by five music festivals in the Emporda region (Spain) and its tourism sector. Design/methodology/approach – Using qualitative methodology, 10 qualified informants were interviewed. Their answers were coded and analysed. Findings – Territorial features favour the organisation of festivals. Promoters wish to offer some added value using local products. Festivals broadcast local identity to the world. Festivals’ features as tourist products explain how they are perceived as innovative. Practical implications – These existing products are being further developed to meet cultural tourism requirements. This strategy is justified by the search for innovation in a fiercely global competitive context. Originality/value – Current paper focuses on a present product and analyses its transformation: how a territory uses an old strategy in a new way generating future opportunities for tourism sector and local economies.

My traditional Japanese wedding?

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew Martin
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
Antecedent Conditions ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Multiple Configurations

Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate deep gaze using a Japanese Shinto wedding ceremony as an example. Some long-term tourists develop an intimate understanding of the host country’s culture by gaining access to authentic experiences typically limited to the locals. These native visitors experience a deep gaze. Design/methodology/approach – Combing subjective personal introspection (SPI) and confirmatory personal introspection (CPI), the author’s 76 wedding photographs are examined critically. Findings – Results demonstrate how a native visitor uses SPI and CPI analyses of native gaze. While the Shinto wedding ceremony’s authenticity mixes traditional and evolutionary elements, the ceremony is best viewed as a Gestalt experience. The evidence suggests authenticity need not have deep roots in the culture. Research limitations/implications – The findings serve as only one configuration of many possible gazes. Tourist Gaze 4.0 is a set of complex antecedent conditions and multiple configurations. Originality/value – Using photographs taken by native family members, this paper demonstrates how SPI and CPI identify deep gaze through a different lens.

Promoting the image of a historic city for sustainable cultural tourism: the case of Tlemcen Capital of Islamic Culture 2011

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-428
Author(s):  
Somia Kherbouche ◽  
Abdelkader Djedid
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historic City

Purpose Focussing on the event “Tlemcen Capital of Islamic Culture 2011”, the purpose of this paper is to examine the changing perception of the city’s image, assess its durability and determine its relationship with the development of sustainable cultural tourism. Design/methodology/approach This research is tested by an empirical study that combines a qualitative and a quantitative approach. The qualitative study is based on semi-directive interviews, whereas quantitative study is based on statistics from the Wilaya Tourism Department. Findings The results of this study indicate first of all that the perception of the city’s image by the inhabitants is not static and that it follows the same process of evolution of the perception of the image by tourists but in relation to other factors such as awareness and age. The second result shows that the sustainability of the image must be verified both inside and outside to achieve sustainable cultural tourism. Originality/value This study is in line with previous research with another point of view on the city’s image and another case study which is the historical city of Tlemcen. It serves to examine the evolution of the perception of the city’s image produced by the event and to assess its sustainability.

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.

Indian festivals: the contribution they make to cultural and economic wellbeing

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjaya S. Gaur ◽  
Mandar Chapnerkar
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Communal Harmony ◽  
Economic Well Being

Purpose – This paper aims to highlight an Indian festival’s contribution to cultural and economic well-being. Design/methodology/approach – This study utilizes a qualitative approach to analyze the impacts of Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which is annually celebrated over a period of two weeks across the nation. Findings – The study shows that the Ganesh Chaturthi festival fosters national cohesiveness, promotes communal harmony, preserves family values, helps maintain national identity, revitalizes the economy and fosters cultural tourism. Research limitations/implications – This paper provides useful insights for policy makers, local government, businesses and community leaders for deriving optimal benefits from the annual Ganapati festival. Originality/value – The Indian economy is developing very rapidly, and yet there is limited published literature available on the contribution of festivals to these developments.

A new proposal to improve the description of astronomical resources

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mª Pilar Alonso Lifante ◽  
Celia Chaín Navarro ◽  
Francisco José González González
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Information Patterns ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that some important astronomical information is still not taken into account in the documental description of historical star catalogues. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 28 historical star catalogues (eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries) from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy was selected in order to analyse their structure and to identify information patterns. Findings – The analysis shows that there are a number of technical parameters which are not present in the cataloguing standards and which should be taken into account in the bibliographic descriptions of these specialised documents since they are of great interest to astronomers and astrophysicists. On the other hand, star catalogues provide some cartographic information which can be described by these standards but whose corresponding fields are not widely used by cataloguers. Originality/value – A proposal of new technical parameters is given in order to try to improve the bibliographic records of these astronomical resources. Some directions are also given in order to identify the sections of the catalogues where these parameters may be found, making the task of locating them easier.

Cultural tourism market: a perspective paper

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob McKercher
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Tourist

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the evolution of the cultural tourism market and what its future may be. Design/methodology/approach Instead of seeing the cultural tourism market as homogeneous, a segmentation model was developed based on the centrality of culture in the overall decision to travel and the depth of experience sought. Findings The model verified five segments, including: the purposeful cultural tourist, the sightseeing cultural tourist, the serendipitous cultural tourist, the casual cultural tourist and the incidental cultural tourist. Originality/value This framework has transformed how we think about cultural tourists, as it provides a better understanding of the differences in behavior and preferences for certain types of experiences. It is also a tool to develop more effective marketing communication strategies and serves as the basis to evaluate the market significance of this activity.

Social sustainability of cultural heritage: Erzurum great mosque (Atabey mosque)

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Semiha İsmailoglu ◽  
Serkan Sipahi
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
The Social

PurposeValuable historical monuments have important potential in the context of cultural tourism in cities. In addition, for the protection of these structures, in terms of ensuring social and cultural sustainability, it is also important to transfer these values to future generations.Design/methodology/approachThe social and cultural sustainability of Erzurum Great Mosque is investigated by viewing the social and cultural sustainability of the mosque through the factors created by Chan and Lee and the criteria created by Stubbs.FindingsAs a result, the social and cultural sustainability of Erzurum Great Mosque is revealed, allowing us to propose what should be done to transfer the values of this structure, which has historical and cultural significance, and the culture it represents to future generations.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature as to evaluate a historical building, in terms of social–cultural sustainability.

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