From the highly influential concept of 'staged authenticity' discussed by Dean MacCannell, to the general claim of longing for authenticity on behalf of all Western consumers, made by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, it is obvious that the concept of authenticity is still worth considering. This ground-breaking book re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling that derives from what we do at / in places. In Re-investing Authenticity - Tourism, Place and Emotions international scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, examine contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices: From cultural place branding to individual pilgrim performances; from intensified experiences of imaginary crime scenes to the rhetorical features of the encounter with the traumatic and; from photography performing memories of place to experiences of wilderness producing excitement, this book demonstrates how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.
Chapter 1 Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience: Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion - Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit Waade
Section One: Staging and Practicing Authenticity
Chapter 2 Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations - Anne-Britt Gran
Chapter 3 The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious - André Jansson
Chapter 4 'The Summer we all went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity- Niels Kayser Nielsen
Section Two: Branding and Materializing Authenticity
Chapter 5 Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore - Can-Seng Ooi and Birgit Stöber
Chapter 6 On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of Øresund - Søren Buhl Hornskov
Chapter 7 A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California - Hanne Pico Larsen
Section Three: Re-writing and Re-mediating Authenticity
Chapter 8 Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity - Dan Ringgaard
Chapter 9 Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site - Karen Klitgaard Povlsen
Chapter 10 Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality - Kjetil Sandvik
Chapter 11 Murder Walks in Ystad - Carina Sjöholm
Chapter 12 Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel - Maria Månsson
Section Four: Re-empowering Authenticity
Chapter 13 Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City' through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories - Mette Sandbye
Chapter 14 Globe1: A Place of Integration or an 'Ethnic Oasis'? - Sine Agergaard
Chapter 15 Online Tourism: Just like Being There? - Jakob Linaa Jensen
Section Five: Embodying Spatial Mythologies
Chapter 16 Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Re-visited - Torunn Selberg
Chapter 17 Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self - Jesper Østergaard and Dorthe Refslund Christensen
Chapter 18 Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground - Szilvia Gyimóthy
