Tourism and cultural revitalisation: local perspectives

Ukaegbu, Maureen O.; Carr, Neil; Tucker, Hazel

doi:10.1080/02508281.2017.1399544

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“…Wallace's work has informed studies of how a turn to tradition has inspired social change [10], investigations of historic or contemporary religious movements [11,12], and many of the contributions to [13], tourism and cultural identity [14,15], customs or festivals or games [16]. Research on revitalisation has often been used in relation to minority groups, often suffering from a history of oppression, who reclaim their heritage [13], for instance in the form of learning a threatened ancestral language [17][18][19].…”

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Revitalizing Traditional Agricultural Practices: Conscious Efforts to Create a More Satisfying Culture

Dahlin

Svensson

2021

Sustainability

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This paper investigates how non-industrial agrarian traditions and practices are reworked and recontextualized in a contemporary context. Explorative in its nature, the paper uses in depth interviews with practitioners in eastern Sweden, several of whom are engaged in work to keep practices of the past alive, to discuss how the concept of revitalization can bear on sustainability. Traditional practices are revived as an alternative to industrialized agriculture, and as having a bearing on resilient cultivation systems as well as social relations. They are seen as means of increasing food security and reversing the negative biodiversity development caused by increased monoculture. We understand tradition as a process of negotiation and adaptation to the present, where revivals to some extent necessarily change the traditions that they attempt to revive. Tradition is thus a dynamic concept, always made in the present, never fixed but constantly evolving. In the challenges created by climate change and environmental degradation, it is increasingly voiced that true sustainability requires a transformation of the cultural system. In many cases, people are turning to tradition for sustainable alternatives to industrialized ways of life and to protect a diversity threatened by a dominant and unsustainable lifestyle.

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