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Touring the Troubles in West Belfast: Building Peace or Reproducing Conflict?
Author(s) -
Wiedenhoft Murphy Wendy Ann
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00655.x
Subject(s) - tourism , northern ireland , territoriality , west coast , north west , geography , sociology , archaeology , physical geography , ethnology , oceanography , communication , geology
This article examines the development of tourism in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, and explores the extent to which tourism builds peace or reproduces processes of past conflict. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with tour managers and tour guides that include West Belfast in their itineraries and participant observations of tours conducted in West Belfast in the summer of 2007. The findings from this data suggest that while tourism there is reproducing some processes of past conflict, particularly territoriality, it has the potential to build cross‐community relationships.