Jonathan Skinner (editor) - Murals and tourism heritage, politics and identity

Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. They express something about the politics, heritage and identity of the locations being visited, whether a medieval fresco in an Italian church, or modern political art found in Belfast or Tehran.

This interdisciplinary and highly international book explores tourism around murals that are either evolving or have transitioned as instruments of politics, heritage and identity. It explores the diverse messaging of these murals: their production, interpretation, marketing and in some cases destruction. It argues that the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture.

Murals and Tourism will be valuable reading for those interested in cultural geography, tourism, heritage studies and the visual arts.

Jonathan Skinner is Reader in Social Anthropology in the Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, UK.

Lee Jolliffe is Professor of Hospitality and Tourism in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Series editor: Brian Graham

This series explores all notions of heritage including social and cultural heritage, the meanings of place and identity, multiculturalism, management and planning, tourism, conservation and the built environment at all scales from the global to the local. Although primarily geographical in orientation, it is open to other disciplines such as anthropology, history, cultural studies, planning, tourism, architecture/conservation, and local governance and cultural economics.

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit

www.routledge.com/Heritage-Culture-and-Identity/book-series/ASHSER-1231

Global and Local Relations

Engagement, Participation and Capacity Building

History, Culture and the Heritage of Pleasure

Heritage, Politics and Identity

National Contexts, International Dynamics

Heritage, Politics and Identity

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Virginia Santamarina Campos has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat Politcnica de Valncia (Spain, 1999) and has been a visiting researcher in Uruguay, Italy and Mexico. She gained her PhD on Conservation and Restoration of the Historic-Artistic Heritage (2003) from UPV. She is the recipient of a National Award by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and is Associate Professor at the UPV, Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, mural art area. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Research micro-cluster VLC/CAMPUS Globalization, tourism and heritage. She has conducted international R&D projects and contracts supported by public and private organizations.

Lorenzo Cantoni is full professor at USI, Universit della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano Switzerland), Faculty of Communication Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Communication Technologies and Scientific Director of the laboratories webatelier.net, NewMinE Lab: New Media in Education Lab, and eLab: eLearning Lab. L. Cantoni is chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, established at USI, and President of IFITT International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism. His research interests are where communication, education and new media overlap, ranging from computer-mediated communication to usability, from eLearning to eTourism, and from ICT4D to eGovernment.

Eva Martnez Carazo has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country (Spain, 2009) and a Masters degree in the Conservation and Restoration of the Historic-Artistic Heritage (UPV, 2011). She is developing her PhD at the UPV, Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, mural art area, with professors Virginia Santamarina and Mara de Miguel, on the topic Cultural Sustainable Tourism. Museum Program of the Uruguayan Muralism of the centuries XX and XXI. She has been a visiting researcher in Uruguay and Australia.

Siun Carden is currently Research Assistant on Plantation to Peace: Derry/Londonderry as the UKs first City of Culture, a 3-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queens University Belfast. Her PhD research in social anthropology looked at the reinvention of an urban neighbourhood as an Irish-language-themed tourist destination, Belfasts Gaeltacht Quarter. Her research interests include tourism, cities, cultural industries and national identity.

Deborah Che is Lecturer in Tourism in the School of Business and Tourism at Southern Cross University, Australia. Deborahs research interests include arts-based economic diversification strategies, heritage tourism, agritourism, gastronomic tourism, ecotourism and human-wildlife interactions. A common theme in her research involves the interconnection between economic restructuring and shifting land uses towards a greater emphasis on tourism and recreation. In examining how culture and entertainment has been used to foster tourism development and to revitalize cities such as Detroit that are impacted by globalization and depopulation, she has collaborated with Detroit environmental artist Tyree Guyton who created the internationally known, open-air art and community Heidelberg Project as well as researched and published on how techno music, tied to the citys Fordist automotive heritage and post-Fordist deindustrialization and flexible production, has fueled local entrepreneurship, a global industry and a festival that draws international visitors to the genres Detroit birthplace. She is on the editorial board of