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Abstract
Recent decades have seen a rise in scholarship on the tourist imagination relating to the western gaze towards other cultures. In this essay, my theoretical standpoint is located in a nexus between museum studies, tourism studies, and anthropology, wherein the dynamic between the visitor and the heritage encountered can no longer be accepted as an innocent one. The contemporary examples I draw on from Scotland and Costa Rica – Skye Ecomuseum, and the Boruca and Rey Curré museos comunitarios – attract diverse international visitors, and tourism to both destinations is showcasing a life lived at a remove from the western world of capitalism and modernity, one experienced within, and at one with, stunning natural surroundings. However, as I will elucidate, both communities are concurrently experiencing the homogenising influences of globalisation while striving to maintain and strengthen their distinctive local identities in the response to predatory tourism.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 23-36 |
Journal | ICOFOM Study Series |
Volume | 45 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 17 Sept 2017 |
Keywords
- Cultural heritage management
- Ecomuseology
- Community museology
- Predatory tourism
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Museums and Social Sustainability: Museums and Social Sustainability in Scotland and Costa Rica.
Brown, K. E. (PI)
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
11/01/16 → 10/01/17
Project: Standard
Research output
- 1 Chapter
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Staffin ecomuseum and the cultural landscape in Scotland
Brown, K. E., Jan 2018, Ecomuseums and cultural landscapes. State of the art and future prospects. Riva, R. (ed.). Maggioli Editore, p. 116-124Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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