Touristic disaster: Spectacle and recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans |
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| Institution: | 1. NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands;2. Stenden University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands;1. Faculty of Management, Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB, UK;2. Faculty of Information Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain |
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| Abstract: | This paper develops the concept touristic disaster as a heuristic device to examine the conflictual and contradictory aspects of showcasing disaster-devastated neighborhoods as tourist attractions. Touristic disaster refers to the application of tourism modes of staging, visualization, and discourse to reenchant the money making deterrents (stigma) of “destruction” and “ruin” and re-signify disaster to indicate “recovery” and “rebirth.” This paper uses empirical examples from New Orleans to examine the transition from “disaster tourism” to “recovery tourism” in tourism framings of post-Katrina rebuilding. The concept of touristic disaster views disaster-devastated neighborhoods as sites and arenas of contestation in which opposing groups and interests battle to control representations of urban space. The paper illustrates the motivations, processes, and paradoxical impacts of the commodification and global representation of “disaster” and “recovery” and provides insights into the ways in which people can use spectacle to contest marginalization. |
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| Keywords: | Spectacle disaster recovery tourism tours |
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