Dissonant Heritage in Tourism Confronting Difficult Pasts in Italy and Beyond

Introduction

The Sustainability of Memory: Dissonant Heritage in Tourism - Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi, Giovanni Gregorini

The Social Republic on Lake Garda: 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 Rozīte

Privatizing 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

‘Rather 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

Biography

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.

Luciano Maffi, Ph.D 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, is 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 seventeenth-century State of Milan and the history of Lombard banking and finance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.