TY - JOUR
T1 - Tourism, Performance and Social Exclusion in “Olde York”
AU - Mordue, Tom
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - The walled historic city center of York, United Kingdom, is a space variously performed and contested by tourists, tourism brokers, and locals. Using ethnographic methods, this study examines issues of power and control regarding the sets of performances or optimum activities the "historic core" is meant for, and asks who the most valued groups to enact these performances are. It concludes that York center is a contested space, and through narrative, performance monitoring, and strategies of spatial regulation, certain social groups are encouraged to consume it while others are subject to accusations of performative incompetence and tactics of social exclusion.
AB - The walled historic city center of York, United Kingdom, is a space variously performed and contested by tourists, tourism brokers, and locals. Using ethnographic methods, this study examines issues of power and control regarding the sets of performances or optimum activities the "historic core" is meant for, and asks who the most valued groups to enact these performances are. It concludes that York center is a contested space, and through narrative, performance monitoring, and strategies of spatial regulation, certain social groups are encouraged to consume it while others are subject to accusations of performative incompetence and tactics of social exclusion.
KW - performance
KW - narrative
KW - power
KW - regulation
KW - space
U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2004.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2004.06.002
M3 - Article
VL - 32
SP - 179
EP - 198
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
SN - 0160-7383
IS - 1
ER -
