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Accepted Paper:
Where in Scotland is Dumfries and Galloway? Tourism as a vehicle for locating and challenging national and local politics, economics and identity in periphery Scotland
Broughton Anderson
(University of Massachusetts)
Paper short abstract:
In the midst of a national tourism plan, periphery regions often find themselves at a crossroads. Though tourism is an important economic endeavor it also highlights how regions who do not "fit" the tourist expectation, struggle to compete for profits.
Paper long abstract:
To the tourist, Scotland, as promoted by its national tourist site, elicits a distinctive picture: castles, tartans, bagpipes, the highlands and kilts. However, regions on the periphery of the nation often struggle to attract tourists because they do not always "fit" this national picture. I examine Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland as a site at the crossroads of national tourism: an important economic endeavor that concomitantly highlights how marginalized regions struggle to compete for tourism profits and challenges national policies designed to promote economic development. As an archaeologist, I approach tourism, its practices and processes, as artefacts/material culture that reveal local agency in the midst of hegemony. The use of ethnography uncovers locals' everyday experiences with their past and present landscape revealing a diverse but no less intimate relationship with the changes brought about by tourism. Tourism thus becomes a vehicle for exposing deeper political, economic and social issues at play in Scotland's development as a nation.
E-paper: this Paper will not be presented, but read in advance and discussed
Tourism as social contest
EPapers