{"title":"From indigenous villages to World Heritage Sites: Structural violence in spatial transformation","authors":"Chengkun Huang , Hong Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103880","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Once indigenous villages are designated as World Heritage Sites, they no longer belong exclusively to local residents. The political, cultural, and tourism-related values of these sites are overemphasized, often undermining the subjectivity of local residents. This transformation in spatial attributes of the villages constitutes “structural violence” against local communities. Existing literature still lacks direct research attention on this issue. This study uses the Fujian Tulou villages in China as case sites, employing a “material-social-cultural” three-dimensional framework to summarize three forms of structural violence: resource deprivation, imbalanced interest structure, and discourse erosion, rooted in spatial transformation, and further explores their underlying causes. The findings deepen insight into the tensions between World Heritage practices, tourism, and sustainable community development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 103880"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324001579","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Once indigenous villages are designated as World Heritage Sites, they no longer belong exclusively to local residents. The political, cultural, and tourism-related values of these sites are overemphasized, often undermining the subjectivity of local residents. This transformation in spatial attributes of the villages constitutes “structural violence” against local communities. Existing literature still lacks direct research attention on this issue. This study uses the Fujian Tulou villages in China as case sites, employing a “material-social-cultural” three-dimensional framework to summarize three forms of structural violence: resource deprivation, imbalanced interest structure, and discourse erosion, rooted in spatial transformation, and further explores their underlying causes. The findings deepen insight into the tensions between World Heritage practices, tourism, and sustainable community development.
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The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.