Re-Investing Authenticity

This book refreshes the rather stale contemporary discussion on authenticity in tourism studies, by looking at it from new perspectives, informed primarily by post-modern approaches in geography and media and literary studies. It also opens up the wealth of current work on tourism in Scandinavia, much of which is not accessible to English language readers. -- Erik Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel in Tourism Recreation Research Vol. 36, No. 1, 2011

Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor at the Scandinavian Department, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within culture and media studies, event culture and experience economy, cultural heritage tourism and memory culture. She has recently published books and articles on realism, witnessing on TV, nostalgia, and thanatourism (http://begivenhedskultur.dk). Anne Marit Waade is Associate Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within media aesthetics, visual culture, mediated tourism and market communications, and she has recently published articles on crime fiction tourism (www.krimiforsk.aau.dk) and travel series (www.tvunderholdning.au.dk) and a book in Danish on media and tourism (Jensen & Waade, 2009).

Chapter 1 Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience: Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion - Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit Waade Section One: Staging and Practicing Authenticity Chapter 2 Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations - Anne-Britt Gran Chapter 3 The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious - Andr Jansson Chapter 4 'The Summer we all went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity- Niels Kayser Nielsen Section Two: Branding and Materializing Authenticity Chapter 5 Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore - Can-Seng Ooi and Birgit Stber Chapter 6 On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of resund - Sren Buhl Hornskov Chapter 7 A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California - Hanne Pico Larsen Section Three: Re-writing and Re-mediating Authenticity Chapter 8 Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity - Dan Ringgaard Chapter 9 Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site - Karen Klitgaard Povlsen Chapter 10 Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality - Kjetil Sandvik Chapter 11 Murder Walks in Ystad - Carina Sjholm Chapter 12 Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel - Maria Mnsson Section Four: Re-empowering Authenticity Chapter 13 Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories - Mette Sandbye Chapter 14 Globe1: A Place of Integration or an Ethnic Oasis? - Sine Agergaard Chapter 15 Online Tourism: Just like Being There? - Jakob Linaa Jensen Section Five: Embodying Spatial Mythologies Chapter 16 Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Re-visited - Torunn Selberg Chapter 17 Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self - Jesper stergaard and Dorthe Refslund Christensen Chapter 18 Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground - Szilvia Gyimthy