Tourism as Memory-Making
Tourism as Memory-Making: Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031837371 | 236 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031837371 | 236 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access bookprovides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated account of the mnemonic interactions between Russians and their neighbours in the shadow of empire and geopolitical confrontations. Based on extensive ethnographic research with tourists and tour guides in the cities of Tallinn, Kyiv, and Almaty before Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, it analyses the practices through which cultural memories are performed in tourism encounters, as well as the forms they take. Imperial nostalgia, the production and consumption of national pasts, and memory diplomacy are discussed as key modes of remembering in tourism.