Bottom-up memorial landscapes between social protest and top-down tourist destination: the case of Chicano Park in San Diego (California) – an analysis based on Ralf Dahrendorf’s conflict theory
Olaf Kühne, Antje Schönwald, Corinna Jenal
Abstract
In an empirical study based on a landscape biographical approach, the processes of constructing memorial landscapes are traced and analysed for tourism-related communications of top-down marketing as well as framed in terms of conflict theory with regard to their productivity and their generating of life chances.
Topics & Concepts
TourismSociologySocial conflictProductivityGeographyRegional scienceArchaeologyLawPolitical scienceEconomic growthEconomicsPoliticsEcology, Conservation, and Geographical StudiesGeographies of human-animal interactionsLand Use and Ecosystem Services