TY - JOUR
T1 - Land, Settler identity, and tourism memories
AU - Fortin, Kendra E.
AU - Hurst, Chris E.
AU - Grimwood, Bryan S. R.
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science [Early Researcher Award, project number ER15-11-182 ] and by a 2018–19 SSHRC Insight Grant competition (435-2018-0616) entitled, “Unsettling Tourism: Settler Stories, Indigenous Lands, and Awakening an Ethics of Reconciliation.”
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - This paper draws on theoretical insights associated with settler colonial studies and a collective memory work methodology to illuminate the multiple and contested meanings of land conveyed in tourism memory narratives of Settler Canadians. As part of a multi-day nature-based tourism experience in June 2019, 16 Settler co-participants wrote, and collectively analyzed, memory texts associated with travel experiences that they felt expressed genuinely Canadian and Indigenous qualities. Thematic analysis of memory narratives and co-participant discussions show how land meanings—specifically, land as organizer, educator, connector, and sustainer—relate to the dynamics of Settler identity. The paper thus builds upon emerging scholarship on tourism and settler colonialism and contributes pathways for decolonizing Settler-Indigenous relations in tourism and tourism research.
AB - This paper draws on theoretical insights associated with settler colonial studies and a collective memory work methodology to illuminate the multiple and contested meanings of land conveyed in tourism memory narratives of Settler Canadians. As part of a multi-day nature-based tourism experience in June 2019, 16 Settler co-participants wrote, and collectively analyzed, memory texts associated with travel experiences that they felt expressed genuinely Canadian and Indigenous qualities. Thematic analysis of memory narratives and co-participant discussions show how land meanings—specifically, land as organizer, educator, connector, and sustainer—relate to the dynamics of Settler identity. The paper thus builds upon emerging scholarship on tourism and settler colonialism and contributes pathways for decolonizing Settler-Indigenous relations in tourism and tourism research.
KW - Collective memory work
KW - Ecotourism
KW - Identity
KW - Land
KW - Settler
KW - Settler colonialism
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2021.103299
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2021.103299
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115358853
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 91
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
M1 - 103299
ER -
