Murals and Tourism : Heritage, Politics and Identity (Hardcover)

Part I: Introduction 1. ‘Wall-to-wall coverage': an introduction to murals tourism Jonathan SkinnerandLee Jolliffe Part II: Heritage 2. Heritage murals as tourist attractions in Ravenna, Moldavia and Istanbul: artistic treasures, cultural identities andpolitical statements Warwick Frost andJennifer Laing 3. From ‘sacred images’ to ‘tourist images’? The fourteenth-century frescoes of Santa Croce, Florence Russell Staiff 4. The walls speak. Mexican popular graphics as heritage Martin M. Checa- Artasu 5. Tourism, voyeurism and the media ecologies of Tehran’s mural arts Pamela Karimi Part III: Politics 6. La Carboneria: an alternative transformation of public space Placido Munoz Moran 7. Murals as sticking plasters: improving the image of an eastern German city for visitors and residents Gareth E. Hamilton 8. Difference upon the walls: hygienizing policies and the use of graffiti against pixacao in Sao Paulo Paula Larruscahim andPaul Schweizer Part IV: Identity 9. A journey through public art in Douala: framing the identity of New Bell neighbourhood Marta Pucciarelli and Lorenzo Cantoni 10. Visiting murals and healing the past of racial injustice in divided Detroit Deborah Che 11. Visiting murals and grafitti art in Brazil Angela C. Flecha, Cristina Jonsson andD'Arcy Dornan 12. Balancing Uruguayan identity and sustainable economic development through street art Maria de Miguel Molina, Virginia Santamarina Campos, Blanca de Miguel Molina andEva Martinez Carazo Part V: Northern Ireland 13. State intervention in re-imaging Northern Ireland’s political murals: implications for tourism and the communities Maria T. Simone-Charteris 14. The Gaeltacht Quarter of Mural City: Irish in Falls Road murals Siun Carden 15. Extra-mural activities and trauma tourism: public and community sector re-imaging of street art in Belfast Katy Radford Part VI: Future Directions 16. Murals as a tool for action research Rebecca Yeo