Dissonant Heritage in Tourism

Maria Paola Pasini, Ph. D, adjunct professor in economic history at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She teaches tourism history and international tourism communication at the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Humanities at the Brescia campus. Luciano Maffi, Ph.D in economic history. He is Professor in Economic and Global History at the University of Parma and has previously held positions at the University of Salento, Bocconi University, University of Genoa, and University of Brescia. Giovanni Gregorini, Full Professor of Economic History at the Catholic University of Milan, where he heads the Department of History and Philology. His research interests include public finance in the XVII century State of Milan and the history of Lombard banking and finance in the XIX and XX centuries.

• Introduction The Sustainability of Memory: Dissonant Heritage in Tourism - Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi, Giovanni Gregorini The Social Republic on Lake Garda: From Collective Amnesia to the Critical Reassessment of a Difficult Heritage in Tourism. A “Diffuse Museum” Project - Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi The Seaplane Base at Desenzano: History, Oblivion, New Proposals - Massimo Tedeschi Re-Semanticising Dissonant Fascist Architecture: Twentieth-Century History through Arts in the Arengario Palace, Milan - Ilaria Fuso, Matteo Gregorini, Federico Versari Creating an Educational Tourism Product for Dissonant Heritage in Forlì: A Co-construction by Local Students and Associations - Claudia Castellucci, Patrick Leech, Cristina Lentini Exporting Italian Architecture: Libya’s Colonial Legacy between Dissonant Heritage and Tourist Opportunity - Francesca Tanghetti, Carlotta Coccoli, Alberto Arenghi Dissonant Heritage between the Lines: Southern Africa in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives - Martino Lorenzo Fagnani The Power of History: Can We Forget Our Past? The Role of South African Dissonant Monuments in Tourism - Lorenzo Pietro Zani Leopold’s Legacy: (Un)covering Controversial Heritage at the Royal Museums of Art and History - Anke Hellebuyck, Gerrit Verhoeven Contested Heritage in the Spanish-Speaking Countries of the Americas and Its Impact on Tourism - Aurelia Martín Casares Reconciliation and Tourism: Visitor Reflections on Australian Indigenous Tourism Experiences - Gary Lacey, Victoria Peel Banalization of Evil? The Communist Heritage in Poland from Rejection to Commercialization - Piotr Podemski Urban Tourism and Difficult Heritage: Management Challenges and Solutions in the Former Riga Jewish Ghetto Area - Aija van der Steina, Maija Roz.te Privatizing Yassiada’s Dark Past: From Exile and Adjudication to Desolate Tourism - Yonca Erkan Staying with the Past: Tourism and Controversy at the Former Prisoner of War Camp of Cultybraggan, Scotland - Suzie Thomas, Julie Delannoy ‘[R]ather a White Elephant’: Narrating the Life of Duff House, Scotland, in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century – From Dereliction to Rehabilitation - Kevin J. James, Gavin R. T. Hughes Conclusions