‘An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger): Passage to India’ – Exploring genealogy and roots tourism through documentary filmmaking

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI:10.1177/14687976231203749

Ian Michael, Paolo Mura

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Abstract

This article presents a documentary film produced and enacted by one of the authors as a way of knowing, constructing and representing a specific form of tourist consumption, namely genealogy tourism. The documentary ( https://vimeo.com/825001015?share=copy ), entitled ‘An Gorta Mor’ (Gaelic words that translate to ‘The Great Hunger’, the Irish famine that occurred from 1845 to 1852), functions as both a vehicle to produce and present the ethnographic fieldwork conducted by one of the authors to trace back his ancestral roots and the empirical material to be analysed. The documentary unveils two emergent themes. The first is that genealogy tourism involves multiple fluid places and transnational identities that question ‘fixed’ notions of ‘motherland’, ‘home’ and ‘family’. The second refers to roots tourism as a vehicle to propel bonding and bridging social capital. Methodologically, as a form of arts-based research, this work promotes embodied alternative ways of knowing tourist realities and selves.

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“An Gorta Mor(大饥饿):印度之旅”-通过纪录片制作探索家谱和根源旅游

本文通过作者之一制作并制作的一部纪录片，来认识、建构和呈现一种特殊的旅游消费形式——家谱旅游。这部名为“An Gorta Mor”(盖尔语，意为“大饥荒”，1845年至1852年发生的爱尔兰饥荒)的纪录片(https://vimeo.com/825001015?share=copy)，作为一种工具，展示了作者之一进行的民族志田野调查，以追溯他的祖先根源和要分析的经验材料。这部纪录片揭示了两个新兴的主题。首先，家谱旅游涉及多个流动的地方和跨国身份，这对“祖国”、“家”和“家庭”的“固定”概念提出了质疑。第二种是将根部旅游作为一种促进联系和弥合社会资本的工具。在方法上，作为一种基于艺术的研究形式，这项工作促进了了解游客现实和自我的具体替代方法。

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Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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