Historical Geographies of Coastal Tourism: Mossel Bay, South Africa c.1850-1988

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Jayne M. Rogerson, Christian M. Rogerson
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During the past decade there has occurred a burst of international research and debate on coastal tourism as part of the ‘blue economy’ including a growth of geography-specific scholarship. Arguably, however, within the extant geographical literature there is an overwhelming ‘present-mindedness’ and limited historical perspectives. This paper addresses this neglected knowledge gap by using an historical approach and archival sources to undertake a locality-based study of the historical transitions which have shaped and reshaped one coastal settlement in South Africa. The Mossel Bay area is of considerable historical significance because of its long history of indigenous settlement before the first European contacts triggered by the arrival in 1488 of Bartholomew Diaz and crew who were in search for a trading sea route for Portugal to India. The nature of the colonial growth of tourism in Mossel Bay and the distinctive tourism economy of the town under apartheid is interrogated. This culminated in the scripting of the controversial 1988 Dias festival hosted to celebrate the opening of ‘apartheid’s last museum’ which occurred before Mossel Bay would experience a radical social transition following South Africa’s democratic elections. Overall, the evolutionary pathways and transitions in the historical geography of this coastal locality are the focus of discussion.
沿海旅游的历史地理:莫塞尔湾,南非。1850-1988
在过去的十年中,国际上对沿海旅游作为“蓝色经济”的一部分进行了大量的研究和辩论,其中包括地理特定奖学金的增长。然而,可以说,在现存的地理文献中,存在着压倒性的“当下意识”和有限的历史视角。本文通过使用历史方法和档案资料来解决这一被忽视的知识差距,对南非一个沿海定居点的历史转变进行了基于地点的研究。莫塞尔湾地区具有相当重要的历史意义,因为在1488年巴塞洛缪·迪亚兹(Bartholomew Diaz)和他的船员为寻找从葡萄牙到印度的海上贸易路线而抵达欧洲之前,它就有了悠久的土著定居历史。莫塞尔湾旅游业的殖民增长的性质和种族隔离时期小镇独特的旅游经济受到质疑。这在1988年Dias节的脚本中达到了高潮,该节日是为了庆祝“种族隔离的最后一个博物馆”的开幕而举办的,发生在莫塞尔湾经历了南非民主选举后的激进社会转型之前。总体而言,这一沿海地区历史地理的演变路径和转变是讨论的重点。
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