Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.08
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
Public folklore practice increasingly emphasizes enabling communities to shape and determine the direction of a project from inception through implementation. The “Mutual Engagement, Co-creation, and Yielding Authority for Representation: Strategies and Practices” salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, explored how folklorists are sharing and yielding authority with community members, with an overarching objective of decentralizing power structures. They stressed the importance of recognizing that communities are not monolithic, containing differential perspectives, conflicting agendas, and internal hierarchies. Participants called for equity in planning and payment for project partners. They spoke about the role that folklorists can play in establishing networks among various stakeholders. Discussions embodied realistic understanding of the constraints of the institutions where folklorists work, while considering strategies for productively overcoming these limitations.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.17
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.10
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
The “Tourism through Folklore: Challenges and Opportunities” salons were organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Participants were clear-eyed about the damage to the integrity of cultural practices and community life that is often engendered by tourism, but they also considered concrete solutions involving greater community agency and the sustainable tourism initiatives of folklorists. They noted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on spurring regenerative tourism. These salons considered the opportunities and pitfalls of immersive tourism experiences, how host/guest relationships can be reconfigured, and approaches for controlling access to over-touristed areas. Folklorists were viewed as being well-equipped to educate about culturally appropriate behavior and to generate substantive interpretative materials, both of which may require collaboration with the tourism industry.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.04
O. Ronström
To meet, encounter, and visit others is foundational to culture and civilization. The ever-increasing number of tourists now challenges the social, cultural, and ecological systems of whole societies. In small, marginalized, and peripheral islands like Gotland, Sweden, tourism and heritage have been embraced as saviors. Although intensive heritage production and increased tourism have boosted parts of the island's economy, it has also led to acute water shortages, increased pollution of the Baltic Sea—already the world's most polluted sea—and to heightened gentrification and marginalization, which in turn has notably increased the islanders’ alienation and ambivalence toward their own lifeworld. In the essay, I introduce the notion of “sustainable visits” to envision forms of tourism that build on local understandings of hosts and guests, forms that acknowledge the legacy of the islanders without leading to further marginalization and Othering. How can studying heritage and folklore contribute to sustainable visits and sustainable destination development?
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.03
D. N’Diaye
Folklorists should enable communities to research and represent their culture on their own terms through yielding authority and facilitating their investigation of the community's own heritage. Community scholar programs in the United States provide training in research, interpretation, and methods of representation. The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has carried out community-driven heritage programs in tourism, curriculum development, and the research and presentation of personal adornment. This liberatory, community-centered heritage work contrasts with some conventional approaches of cultural workers that reinforce colonialist and racist structures and the abuse of heritage by racist extremists.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.16
Mark Norman
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.06
J. Titon
From a folklife perspective, I address consequences of thinking of the environment as natural capital that provides ecosystem services to people: services that include heritage, both cultural and natural. I examine contemporary environmental policy to reveal advantages and limitations in thinking of folklife and heritage as ecosystem services, and a need to think beyond ecosystem services to ways that folklore studies may contribute to ecojustice. Natural capital and ecosystem services deem the environment to be a commodity, but ecojustice conceives of nature as a community.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.01
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
Though they tend to occupy separate universes of discourse, public folklore and heritage studies share areas of common concern, including authority and ownership of cultural objects, power asymmetries, safeguarding and sustainability, and the implication of heritage in local economies, politics, and environmental justice. This special issue encompasses multiple domains of public folklore and heritage discourse, including museums, archives, and cultural property issues; culinary tourism; and relations between cultural practitioners, institutions, audiences, and stakeholders. The six essays are based on an online webinar organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society that explored a wide range of questions including how communities conceptualize relationships between past and present, remake traditions of the past in the present, integrate heritage and environmental sustainability, and negotiate power dynamics among stakeholders. Following the webinar, small groups assembled in salons to discuss these and related issues. Summaries of the salons follow the six essays. Together, these essays and salon summaries address not only the ways that heritage navigates the past in the present but the temporalities of heritage practice, which imagines the future while considering the ethical and dialogic dimensions of heritage practices and policies.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.11
Robert Baron, Mary Hufford, Amy Shuman
The “Sustainabilities” salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, drew together folklorists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, who were interested in frameworks for the study and stewardship of culture at the nexus of economy, ecology, nature, and the multi-species ethnographic and ontological turn. Conversations highlighted the continuing friction between public environmental policies grounded in Western instrumental, anthropocentric attitudes toward nature, and deeply relational values espoused by Indigenous and environmental justice communities, and by the growing numbers of climate refugees and host communities—urban and rural—with whom folklorists and heritage scholars are increasingly engaged. Exploring what is most needed from folklorists in a time of global environmental instability, participants identified ways to build on solid foundations developed over decades of public folklore's place-based community engagement.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01DOI: 10.5406/15351882.137.543.05
Lucy M. Long
The tourism industry often treats heritage as an objective quality that makes attractions more competitive. This approach would seem to support the sustainability of a culture's culinary heritage, but it oftentimes ossifies, simplifies, invents, and even threatens it. A folklore-based approach to culinary tourism addresses some of these issues. This essay describes three projects that illustrate applications of folklore theory and practice to culinary tourism projects involving heritage.
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