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Authenticity: Understanding Misinformation Through the Study of Heritage Tourism

Autor William Aspray, James W. Cortada
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2024
This book studies authenticity, which is a kind of truth to self, through the study of heritage tourism. When a heritage site is inauthentic, it leads to misinformation. Tourism scholars have been studying authenticity for about 50 years, and this book draws upon the theories and approaches of tourism studies to understand better misinformation, which has become a major topic of study since the US presidential elections in 2016. The book includes a discussion of common-sense and academic notions of authenticity, surveys a half century of scholarship on authenticity, and provides three case studies of heritage tourism sites: Lindsborg, KS (known as Little Sweden, USA), Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, and the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538172643
ISBN-10: 153817264X
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 3 b/w photos; 8 tables;
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Contents

Preface
1.Authenticity and Misinformation in the American Historical Experience
2.Academic Research by Tourism and Information Scholars
3.Authenticity in Small Heritage Tourism Sites: The Case of Lindsborg, KS
4.Authenticity in Large Private Heritage Tourism Sites: The Case of Colonial Williamsburg
5.Authenticity in Large Public Heritage Tourism Sites: The Case of Gettysburg
6.Lessons About Authenticity and Misinformation
Notes
Index
About the Authors

Recenzii

"The most thoughtful work on authenticity since Miles Orvell's classic, The Real Thing. Orvell's domain was objects, while Cortada and Aspray's is time, place, people, and acts as they creatively and expertly analyze inauthenticity and misinformation in heritage tourism-offering rich intellectual journeys through Colonial Williamsburg, Gettysburg, and Lindsborg, Kansas."
"I admire and appreciate this unique book on many levels. In a deft interdisciplinary stroke, the fields of Tourism/Leisure Studies and Information Studies are taken from a state of curious flirtation to a real partnership. Aspray and Cortada enact this feat by focusing analytical attention on heritage tourism sites and by exploring a single concept - authenticity - from dual perspectives. In addition to expert, systematic reviews of the literatures on the topics from both sides, three case studies trace (with an eye to authenticity) how heritage sites come into being. The detailed and sometimes surprising historical accounts establish grounds to understand and problematize the nature of authenticity in fresh ways. I believe that readers of this book (myself included) who visit heritage sites hereafter may not be so easily carried back in time. But on the bright side, we will more mindfully experience their aspirations, tensions, and complexities as socially-constructed environments and as 'information ecosystems.' In a quiet but important methodological triumph, Aspray and Cortada may have produced the long-lost blueprint for Jesse Shera's vision for information studies-social epistemology."
Authenticity marries information studies with tourism studies to provide much needed context to our understanding of the world of misinformation. Through case studies of famous cultural heritage sites, readers get a glimpse into the historical, cultural, emotional, and political dimensions that shape these sites and their implicit and explicit misinformation production, which in turn shape the way we view the United States and its corresponding cultures. An intriguing and necessary book.
Using tourism and heritage as a vehicle, the authors map the intellectual space between authenticity and reimagination to raise fundamental questions about misinformation and the ways it has been and should be studied.
Aspray and Cortada's Authenticity is a very evocative and compelling book that breaks much new theoretical and narrative ground. It will be useful to historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and information and cultural studies scholars for years and decades to come.