London’s ‘Unseen Tours’: Slumming or Social Tourism?

Dolezal, Claudia; Gudka, Jayni

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“…Differentiating from tourism or empathy, Arendt [6] highlights visiting as a mode of civic learning, one that acknowledges the critical plurality of perspectives of an event/space, and a reflexive meaning-making stage caused by this acknowledgement [19,88]. Adopting this critical and reflexive approach [33], several guidebooks [32], maps [27,37,89] and tours [13,18,41,85,97,[122][123][124] counteract the dominant narratives by showcasing dissonant heritage [127] and the voices of those left out of AHD [27]. To better understand the mechanisms behind these tours, Ormond and Vietti [88] focus on the inner workings of two initiatives: Migrantour[81], a project cofunded by the EU with tour guides (citizen migrants, refugees and asylum seekers) in 16 cities across Europe, and Roots Guide [58], an interactive reflexive guidebook based on participants' internal and international migration experience, and targeting domestic tourists in the Netherlands.…”

Section: Intercultural Dialogues Around Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

Bala¹,

Sanches

Cesário³

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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As we engaged in designing digital interventions for intercultural dialogues around public cultural heritage sites, we saw an opportunity to surface multiple interpretations and points of view of history and shine a critical lens on current societal issues. To do so, we present the results of a collaborative auto-ethnography of alternative tours accompanied by intercultural guides, to explore sensory and embodied engagements with cultural heritage sites in a southern European capital. By focusing on the differences in how we experienced the heritage sites, we analyse the duality of discomfort, a common concept in HCI, in that it can both be deployed as a resource for designing systems that can transform people's understanding of history or it can be a hindrance for engagement, having an unequal effect on individuals. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Field studies; • Applied computing → Arts and humanities.

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Section: Intercultural Dialogues Around Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

Bala¹,

Sanches

Cesário³

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Beyond multicultural ‘tolerance’: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning

Ormond

Vietti

2021

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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In bringing people together that otherwise might have little more than passing contact with one another, tourism is appreciated for its potential to transform mindsets by fostering multi-perspectivity, a cornerstone of global citizenship education, among both 'tourists' and 'locals'. Hence, while tourism plays a significant role in marginalising and exploiting immigrants' bodies, labour and heritages, it also holds significant potential as a critical pedagogical tool for transcending the limits of multicultural tolerance discourse and combatting exploitation and xenophobia. In this article, we reflect on two Europe-based global citizenship-inspired initiatives bringing together migration and tourism in novel ways: Migrantour guided walking tours and the Roots Guide guidebook. They endeavour to rework guided tours and guidebooks, two of tourism's most common pedagogical tools, into 'good company' that supports the Arendtian practice of 'visiting' as a key mode of civic learning. In so doing, we explore the representational and structural opportunities and challenges that these two initiatives encounter as they seek to co-create multi-dimensional narratives and routes in ways that recognise guides' diverse experiences and perceptions of the places they call home, avoid stereotypical representations of 'communities' and hold space for the real-life frictions that accompany diversity.

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London’s ‘Unseen Tours’: Slumming or Social Tourism?

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Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

Towards Critical Heritage in the wild: Analysing Discomfort through Collaborative Autoethnography

Beyond multicultural ‘tolerance’: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning

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