Search results for "place identity"
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Dark tourism and place identity: managing and interpreting dark places (contemporary geographies of leisures, tourism and mobility)
2014
Leanne White and Elspeth Frew present a compilation that explores the roots of dark tourism and the problems of place identity. Overall, the work is formed by 19 chapters, which although interestin...
Shifting Imageries: Gentrification and the New Touristic Images of the Inner City of Palermo
2021
After the bombings of 1943, the historic centre of Palermo was left with several crumbling buildings and a social situation of some concern. Therefore, over the last sixty years, all kinds of representations of Palermo have revolved around the presence of criminal organizations and the risks of living in the most dangerous areas of the city (including the city centre). These representations started to change around the beginning of the new century when the inner city of Palermo underwent an intense process of redefinition of its territorial identity. Several key factors may be used to explain this process: from traditional economic reasons concerning gentrification and touristification, to …
Sustainability, Territorial Resources and Social Capital
2017
In Italy, in the last two decades, new methods of intervention in planning and land policies have been used, which focused more and more on territorial government, governance, development, cohesion and environmental sustainability. One of the main factors that has contributed to the dissatisfaction of the residents is the lack of quality in the towns, which has been more and more characterized by urban decay and by lack of services and gathering places. Giving back environmental, economic and social quality to degraded areas or recovering abandoned public spaces responds definitely to the concept of sustainable city limiting urban sprawl and reducing environmental impacts inherent in the bu…
Nomi (e identità) di luogo nella canzone dialettale siciliana
2017
Authors of neo-dialect songs choose dialect, on the one hand, because they need to find better metrical and rhythmic solutions, and, on the other, they wish to use an ‘alternative’ language to standard Italian. At the same time, their pro loco linguistic choice gives authors the chance to use the dialect as a symbol of microspace opposing the sense of estrangement and alienation caused by globalization. Thus, besides the linguistic «locality» expressed by means of dialect, we find another kind of locality, consisting in the authors’ constant reference to local settings, related to the space they live in, symbolizing the return to their own roots in opposition to the global village. Of cours…
Cantari e Cuntari: tradizione e modernità nella canzone dialettale siciliana
2017
Negli ultimi venti anni, in concomitanza con lo ‘sdoganamento’ del dialetto, si è assistito in Italia a una straordinaria fioritura della canzone dialettale. All’interno di questa scenario, resta di grande interesse l’esperienza della Sicilia dove le canzoni appaiono orientate ad attingere al serbatoio di immagini, pratiche, valori, denominazioni di cose offerto dall’universo della cultura tradizionale-dialettale. D’altra parte, la scelta di scrivere e cantare in dialetto sembra configurarsi come tentativo ed esigenza di esprimere una robusta identità di luogo che si sostanzia anche nel costante riferimento ai luoghi, allo spazio del dialetto scelto e usato per comporre i testi delle canzon…
Dialetto e canzone. Uno sguardo sulla Sicilia di oggi
2018
Negli ultimi decenni la canzone in dialetto ha conosciuto una straordinaria fioritura in concomitanza con lo “sdoganamento” delle varietà locali. Oggi che nel nostro Paese il processo di italofonia può dirsi pressoché concluso, si ritorna al dialetto per una specie di senso di nostalgia. E mentre il dialetto perde parlanti nativi e funzioni comunicative “ordinarie”, compare in ambiti nuovi, fino a qualche tempo fa del tutto impensabili. Così nella canzone, dove si presta ad ampliare il «potenziale di variazione», a soddisfare bisogni espressivi ai quali l’italiano non sembra in grado di rispondere e, più in generale, a simboleggiare il ritorno alle radici come “meccanismo di difesa” dall’ef…
A twofold commodification of 'place' in hotel websites and its consequences for the discursive creation of a tourist identity.
2016
Tourism is a global cultural industry and one of the world’s largest international trades (Thurlow & Jaworski, 2011). As far as tourism is understood as an agent and channel of globalisation (Pritchard & Jaworski, 2005), it makes sense to investigate it from a critical perspective and analyse how its discourse shapes the tourist experience. The aim of this study is to explore ways in which hotel websites project a place identity for the hotel and, in doing so, for the town or city in which the hotel is located. I will ask how, and in what ways, this representation relies on socio-cultural conventions, which in turn may influence the discursive construction of the social actor “tourist”. Usi…