Re-Investing Authenticity

Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor at the Scandinavian Department, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within culture and media studies, event culture and experience economy, cultural heritage tourism and memory culture. She has recently published books and articles on realism, witnessing on TV, nostalgia, and thanatourism (http://begivenhedskultur.dk).Anne Marit Waade is Associate Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within media aesthetics, visual culture, mediated tourism and market communications, and she has recently published articles on crime fiction tourism (www.krimiforsk.aau.dk) and travel series (www.tvunderholdning.au.dk) and a book in Danish on media and tourism (Jensen & Waade, 2009).

• Chapter 1 Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience: Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion - Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit WaadeSection One: Staging and Practicing AuthenticityChapter 2 Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations - Anne-Britt GranChapter 3 The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious - André JanssonChapter 4 'The Summer we all went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity- Niels Kayser NielsenSection Two: Branding and Materializing AuthenticityChapter 5 Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore - Can-Seng Ooi and Birgit StöberChapter 6 On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of Øresund - Søren Buhl HornskovChapter 7 A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California - Hanne Pico LarsenSection Three: Re-writing and Re-mediating AuthenticityChapter 8 Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity - Dan RinggaardChapter 9 Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site - Karen Klitgaard PovlsenChapter 10 Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality - Kjetil SandvikChapter 11 Murder Walks in Ystad - Carina SjöholmChapter 12 Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel - Maria MånssonSection Four: Re-empowering AuthenticityChapter 13 Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City’ through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories - Mette SandbyeChapter 14 Globe1: A Place of Integration or an ‘Ethnic Oasis’? - Sine AgergaardChapter 15 Online Tourism: Just like Being There? - Jakob Linaa JensenSection Five: Embodying Spatial MythologiesChapter 16 Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Re-visited - Torunn SelbergChapter 17 Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self - Jesper Østergaard and Dorthe Refslund ChristensenChapter 18 Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground - Szilvia Gyimóthy

This book refreshes the rather stale contemporary discussion on authenticity in tourism studies, by looking at it from new perspectives, informed primarily by post-modern approaches in geography and media and literary studies. It also opens up the wealth of current work on tourism in Scandinavia, much of which is not accessible to English language readers.