Tourism as Memory-Making
Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire
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“This book makes a timely and much anticipated intervention in scholarship on tourism and memory-making. Alena Pfoser’s insightful, illuminating and rigorously researched analysis of Russian encounters at three former Soviet destinations demonstrates the methodological and conceptual potential of taking tourism seriously in our efforts to comprehend contemporary cultural memory.”
—Dr Jessica Rapson, King’s College London
Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access book provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated account of the mnemonic interactions between Russians and their neighbours in the shadow of empire and geopolitical confrontations. Based on extensive ethnographic research with tourists and tour guides in the cities of Tallinn, Kyiv, and Almaty before Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, it analyses the practices through which cultural memories are performed in tourism encounters, as well as the forms they take. Imperial nostalgia, the production and consumption of national pasts, and memory diplomacy are discussed as key modes of remembering in tourism.
Through the case of Russian tourism, the book argues for an invigoration of research on memory and tourism, which despite the significance of tourism for the circulation of cultural memories has so far received surprisingly little attention. Bringing debates in memory, heritage and tourism studies into a dialogue, the book expands the field of study beyond museums and heritage sites and puts forward a transnational approach that acknowledges diverse and entangled modes of remembering in tourism, situates memory-making in a wider political context and reflects on its geopolitical implications.
Alena Pfoser is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK.
Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access book provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated account of the mnemonic interactions between Russians and their neighbours in the shadow of empire and geopolitical confrontations. Based on extensive ethnographic research with tourists and tour guides in the cities of Tallinn, Kyiv, and Almaty before Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, it analyses the practices through which cultural memories are performed in tourism encounters, as well as the forms they take. Imperial nostalgia, the production and consumption of national pasts, and memory diplomacy are discussed as key modes of remembering in tourism.
Through the case of Russian tourism, the book argues for an invigoration of research on memory and tourism, which despite the significance of tourism for the circulation of cultural memories has so far received surprisingly little attention. Bringing debates in memory, heritage and tourism studies into a dialogue, the book expands the field of study beyond museums and heritage sites and puts forward a transnational approach that acknowledges diverse and entangled modes of remembering in tourism, situates memory-making in a wider political context and reflects on its geopolitical implications.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Develops a novel conceptual framework for examining cultural memories in tourism Provides an empirically rich account of the mnemonic interactions between Russians and their neighbours Discusses nostalgia, production/consumption of national pasts, memory diplomacy as key modes of remembering in tourism
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Open Access Memory-making Russian tourism Cultural memory Russian empire Post-Soviet space City branding Mnemonic intermediation Imperial nostalgia Memory diplomacy
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“Tourism as memory-making is particularly good at untangling the complexities of heritage and nostalgia by showing that the question ‘whose heritage?’ shifts constantly in the uncertain landscape of places that used to be part of the Soviet Union.” (Dr. Alison Rowley, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Concordia University)
“Alena Pfoser’s book is a thoroughly researched account of the cultural politics of Russian tourism in three former Soviet states - Estonia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. It is an important study of cultural memory contestations and their consequences at the turning point in the political life of these states.” (Professor Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, The University of Edinburgh)
“This book makes a timely and much anticipated intervention in scholarship on tourism and memory-making. Alena Pfoser’s insightful, illuminating and rigorously researched analysis of Russian encounters at three former Soviet destinations demonstrates the methodological and conceptual potential of taking tourism seriously in our efforts to comprehend contemporary cultural memory.” (Dr Jessica Rapson, King’s College London, UK)
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