Heritage Tourism and Cultural Landscapes

Recommended Prerequisites

Not aplicável.

Teaching Methods

Lessons with participative and theoretical discussion of the themes, complemented with the analysis of practical examples and the use of texts, maps and other materials, in addition to practical issues researched and presented by the students.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to critically study the role of heritage and cultural landscapes in tourism, with emphasis on the new assets created or (re)appropriated in the context of postmodernity.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Cultural landscapes, between modernity and post modernity.  Critical definition and main characteristics.

2. The creative industries, the territorialization of the representations and the construction of tourist landscapes

2.1  Landscapes and cinematic heritage

2.2  Landscapes and literary heritage.

2.3  Theme parks 

3. Tourism and biographical landscapes.

4. The ownership of tourist landscapes of memory and catastrophe- dark tourism and traumascapes

5. Political tourism

6. The political and ideological dimension of heritage and landscapes of post modernity. Final reflection.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paulo Manuel de Carvalho Tomás

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 25.0%
Research work: 75.0%

Bibliography

Anton Clavé, S. (2007). The Global Theme Park Industry. Wallingford: CABI.

Atkinson , D. et al (Eds.) (2005). Cultural Geography. A critical dictionary of key concepts. London and New YorK: I. B. Taurus.

Beeton, S. (2005). Film-induced tourism. Clevedon: Channel View Publications.

Carvalho, P. & Fernandes, J. (2012). Património cultural e paisagístico. Políticas, intervenções e representações. Coimbra:  Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

Moore, N. & Whelan, Y. (Eds.) (2007). Heritage, memory and the politics of identity. New perspectives on the cultural landscape. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Moynagh, M. (2008). Political tourism and its texts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Foley, M. & Lennon, J. (2000); Dark tourism. London: Continuum International Publishing Group

Stone, P. & Sharpley, R (2008). Consuming dark-tourism a thanatological perspective. Annals of Tourism Research, 35, 574–595.