I am a PhD student in Ethnology and my project is about the relationship between tourism and cultural heritage. I´m going to see how two cultural heritage sites have become and are continuing to be done as visitable sites. I´m going to do field studies at Åland Islands in Finland and at the island of Gotland in Sweden. At these sites I want to study how the cultural heritage is presented in relation to a hegemonic cultural heritage discourse and how the visitors are encouraged to understand and move around on the sites. The material I´m going to look at is signs, information boards, maps, and different kinds of brochures.
I want to participate in the workshop because I´m interested in how people move around and understand a site depending on how the moved around and experienced it. I think the theme for the workshop is very interesting in relation to my PhD project.