UNESCO, mining heritage and the scalar sustainability of tourism geographies at industrial World Heritage Sites

IF 5.8 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM Journal of Tourism Futures Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI:10.1108/jtf-10-2023-0235
Mark Alan Rhodes II, Kathryn Laura Hannum
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Abstract

Purpose

Industrial heritage works within a world of contradictions, contentions and scalar liminality. Archaeologists and historians focus upon oral histories and discourses of tangible and intangible memory and heritage while planners and economists see industrial World Heritage, in particular, as a marketing ploy to redevelop deindustrialized spaces. Within this liminality, we explore the potential for geographical perspectives to solder such contradictions into transdisciplinary heritage assessments and tourism contexts. How might the spatial tools of landscape and scalar analyses expose alternative and sustainable futures within broader patterns of industrial heritage management and consumption?

Design/methodology/approach

Using three comparative cases, interview and landscape methods and conducting discourse analysis within a spatial and scalar framework, we explore the increasing presence of industrial World Heritage.

Findings

We present both an institutional reflection upon the complexities of heritage discourse across complex spatial configurations and the intersectional historical, cultural, political, environmental and economic geographies that guide and emerge out of World Heritage Designations. Framed scalarly and spatially, we highlight common interpretation, tourism and heritage management styles and concerns found across industrial World Heritage. We point out trans-scalar considerations for future municipalities and regions looking to utilize their industrial landscapes and narratives.

Originality/value

We believe that more theoretical groundings in space and scale may lead to both the flexibility and the applicability needed to assess and, in turn, manage trans-scalar and trans-spatial complex heritage sites. These perspectives may be uniquely poised to assess the complex geographies of industrial, particularly mining, World Heritage Sites.

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教科文组织、矿业遗产和世界工业遗产地旅游地理的标度可持续性
目的工业遗产是在一个充满矛盾、争论和尺度限制的世界中运作的。考古学家和历史学家关注口述历史以及有形和无形记忆与遗产的论述,而规划师和经济学家则将世界工业遗产视为重新开发非工业化空间的营销手段。在这一局限性中,我们探讨了从地理角度将这种矛盾纳入跨学科遗产评估和旅游背景的可能性。通过三个比较案例、访谈和景观方法,并在空间和标度框架内进行话语分析,我们探讨了世界工业遗产日益增长的存在。研究结果我们对遗产话语在复杂空间配置中的复杂性以及指导和产生于世界遗产指定的历史、文化、政治、环境和经济地理的交叉性进行了机构反思。从尺度和空间的角度来看,我们强调了工业化世界遗产中常见的解释、旅游和遗产管理方式及关注点。原创性/价值我们认为,更多的空间和尺度理论基础可能会带来评估和管理跨尺度和跨空间复杂遗产地所需的灵活性和适用性。这些观点可能是评估世界工业遗产地,特别是矿业遗产地复杂地理环境的独特视角。
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Journal of Tourism Futures
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34 weeks
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