Click the star to add/remove an item to/from your individual schedule.
You need to be logged in to avail of this functionality.
Log in
Accepted Paper
Paper short abstract
The paper explores a workshop with students at the University of Cagliari, using analogue collage to discuss Sardinian tourism and heritage. It highlights how students' collages reveal tensions between stereotypical/authentic and global/local imaginaries in the perception of the island's heritage.
Paper long abstract
Presenting the outcomes of a workshop conducted with MA students at the University of Cagliari (Sardinia), the paper aims at discussing analogue collage as a teaching and research tool within anthropology of tourism and heritage. The workshop took place in November 2024 and was divided into three main phases: an analytical phase, in which students had to choose and study an essay about heritage and tourism in Sardinia; a creative phase, in which each one produced a collage representing their own interpretation of the Sardinian tourism imaginaries based on the essay, and, lastly, a phase of discussion of their works.
Following Noel Salazar’s conceptualisation (2012), imaginaries work as socially transmitted assemblages, representations, devices of meaning-making and world-shaping, they are often constructed around dichotomies and influence how individuals interpret and shape their experience of otherness, about both places and peoples. While working on a collage, handling a given material guides a reflection able to point out the production of meaning, rather than presenting a given reality. Through the analysis of the collages and narratives produced by students, the paper reflects on how this creative method can be used to highlight the dialectic tensions between stereotypical/authentic, global/local within tourism and heritage imaginaries.
More precisely, the paper will explore the selection and reinterpretation of images and words associated with Sardinian heritage by students, and how the creation of collages encompasses not only individual points of views, but also broader social and cultural dynamics connected to the perception of the island’s heritage.
An Anthropology of Collage and Assemblage.
Session 2 Thursday 3 July, 2025, -