Memory tourism in a contested landscape : exploring identity discourses in Lviv, Ukraine
Godis, Nataliia and Nilsson, Jan Henrik LU
(2018)
In Current Issues in Tourism
21(15).
p.1690-1709
- Abstract
- The study explores divergent representations and cultural identity in a historically contested landscape. The first form of representations includes politically amended place marketing. It is analysed how public discourse on a city’s development and regeneration articulate inscriptions of local authorities to pursue political-economic agendas. The second form of representations is diaspora’s imaginary of a pedigree place that derives from genealogical research and travel. In this way, genealogy enables counter-memories to uncritical marketing and ‘alternative’ voices in recast of local history. A contested landscape is conceptualized in the framework of politics of past to reflect stakeholders’ present-day preoccupations. Two forms of... (More)
- The study explores divergent representations and cultural identity in a historically contested landscape. The first form of representations includes politically amended place marketing. It is analysed how public discourse on a city’s development and regeneration articulate inscriptions of local authorities to pursue political-economic agendas. The second form of representations is diaspora’s imaginary of a pedigree place that derives from genealogical research and travel. In this way, genealogy enables counter-memories to uncritical marketing and ‘alternative’ voices in recast of local history. A contested landscape is conceptualized in the framework of politics of past to reflect stakeholders’ present-day preoccupations. Two forms of representations conceptualize spaces of dominance and resistance in Lefèbvre’s (1991) production of space. The empiric study is conducted in Lviv, a city with complicated past and national identity due to interchangeable powers. The fieldwork comprises the ongoing marketing campaign in Lviv launched in connection to Euro-2012, and the Polish, Jewish, and West Ukrainian diasporic representations. The findings show how the national and the Eurocentric meta-narratives embed the identity discourses of the official élite, and how diasporic texts suggest a genre of resistance to the marketing scripts. (Less)
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- author
- Godis, Nataliia
and Nilsson, Jan Henrik
LU
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- publishing date
- 2018-10-13
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- identity, place marketing, diaspora, historiographic representations, Lviv, Critical Discourse Analysis
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- Current Issues in Tourism
- volume
- 21
- issue
- 15
- pages
- 1690 - 1709
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84980343808
- ISSN
- 1368-3500
- DOI
- 10.1080/13683500.2016.1216529
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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