Dissonant heritage in tourism : confronting difficult pasts in Italy and beyond / edited by Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi, Giovanni Gregorini

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pasini, Maria Paola, editor.

Maffi, Luciano, editor.

Gregorini, Giovanni, editor.

Series:

Global heritage and memory studies in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heritage tourism.

Heritage tourism--Italy.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Budapest : CEU Press, Central European University Press, [2026]

Summary:

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 cancelled 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

Contents:

Introduction : The sustainability of memory : Dissonant heritage in tourism / Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi, Giovanni Gregorini

The social republic on Lake Garda : A ‘diffuse museum’ project / Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi

The seaplane base at Desenzano : History, oblivion, new proposals / Massimo Tedeschi

Re-semanticising dissonant Fascist architecture : Twentieth-century history through arts in the Arengario Palace, Milan / Ilaria Fuso, Matteo Gregorini, Federico Versari

Creating an educational tourism product for dissonant heritage in Forlì : A co-construction by local students and associations / Claudia Castellucci, Patrick Leech, Cristina Lentini

Exporting Italian architecture : Libya’s colonial legacy between dissonant heritage and tourist opportunity / Francesca Tanghetti, Carlotta Coccoli, Alberto Arenghi

Dissonant heritage between the lines : Southern Africa in 19th-century travel narratives / Martino Lorenzo Fagnani

The power of history : Can we forget our past? The role of South African dissonant monuments in tourism / Lorenzo Pietro Zani

Leopold’s legacy : (Un)covering controversial heritage at the Royal Museums of Art and History / Anke Hellebuyck, Gerrit Verhoeven

Contested heritage in the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas and its impact on tourism / Aurelia Martín Casares

Reconciliation and tourism : Visitor reflections on Australian Indigenous tourism experiences / Gary Lacey, Victoria Peel

Banalisation of evil? : The Communist heritage in Poland from rejection to commercialisation / Piotr Podemski

Urban tourism and difficult heritage : Management challenges and solutions in the former Riga Jewish Ghetto area / Aija van der Steina, Maija Rozite

Privatising dark past : From exile and adjudication to desolate tourism / Yonca Erkan

Staying with the past : Tourism and controversy at the former prisoner of war camp of Cultybraggan, Scotland / Suzie Thomas, Julie Delannoy

‘Rather a white elephant’ : Narrating the life of Duff House, Scotland, in the second half of the 20th century—from dereliction to rehabilitation / Kevin J. James, Gavin R. T. Hughes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 3, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Dissonant heritage in tourism

ISBN:

9789048562916

9048562910

9789048575367

9048575362

9781003694113

100369411X

OCLC:

1552583613

Publisher Number:

CIPO000361615

Access Restriction:

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