Murals and Tourism: Heritage, Politics and Identity / Edition 1

by Jonathan Skinner, Lee Jolliffe

Overview

Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. They express something about the politics, heritage and identity of the locations being visited, whether a medieval fresco in an Italian church, or modern political art found in Belfast or Tehran.

This interdisciplinary and highly international book explores tourism around murals that are either evolving or have transitioned as instruments of politics, heritage and identity. It explores the diverse messaging of these murals: their production, interpretation, marketing and - in some cases - destruction. It argues that the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture.

Murals and Tourism will be valuable reading for those interested in cultural geography, tourism, heritage studies and the visual arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367218942
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/28/2019
Series:	Heritage, Culture and Identity
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonathan Skinner is Reader in Social Anthropology in the Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, UK.

Lee Jolliffe is Professor of Hospitality and Tourism in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction

1. ‘Wall-to-wall coverage': an introduction to murals tourism

Jonathan Skinner and Lee Jolliffe

Part II: Heritage

2. Heritage murals as tourist attractions in Ravenna, Moldavia and Istanbul: artistic treasures, cultural identities and political statements

Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing

3. From ‘sacred images’ to ‘tourist images’? The fourteenth-century frescoes of Santa Croce, Florence

Russell Staiff

4. The walls speak. Mexican popular graphics as heritage

Martín M. Checa- Artasu

5. Tourism, voyeurism and the media ecologies of Tehran’s mural arts

Pamela Karimi

Part III: Politics

6. La Carbonería: an alternative transformation of public space

Plácido Muñoz Morán

7. Murals as sticking plasters: improving the image of an eastern German city for visitors and residents

Gareth E. Hamilton

8. Difference upon the walls: hygienizing policies and the use of graffiti against pixação in São Paulo

Paula Larruscahim and Paul Schweizer

Part IV: Identity

9. A journey through public art in Douala: framing the identity of New Bell neighbourhood

Marta Pucciarelli and Lorenzo Cantoni

10. Visiting murals and healing the past of racial injustice in divided Detroit

Deborah Che

11. Visiting murals and grafitti art in Brazil

Angela C. Flecha, Cristina Jönsson and D'Arcy Dornan

12. Balancing Uruguayan identity and sustainable economic development through street art

María de Miguel Molina, Virginia Santamarina Campos, Blanca de Miguel Molina and Eva Martínez Carazo

Part V: Northern Ireland

13. State intervention in re-imaging Northern Ireland’s political murals: implications for tourism and the communities

Maria T. Simone-Charteris

14. The Gaeltacht Quarter of Mural City: Irish in Falls Road murals

Siun Carden

15. Extra-mural activities and trauma tourism: public and community sector re-imaging of street art in Belfast

Katy Radford

Part VI: Future Directions

16. Murals as a tool for action research

Rebecca Yeo