@article{ff269e2729014f2aa9898142ba5ddfc6,
title = "Representation as work in 'America's Most Historic City'",
abstract = "This paper examines how the practices of heritage tourism reproduce identities in and of Fredericksburg, Virginia. In particular, we focus on the everyday practices of tourism workers who are essential in the representation and reproduction of this heritage space. In so doing, we want to move away from research in geography that theorizes representation and embodiment as distinct realms of experience and inquiry. Instead, we argue that representation is work and within this very material process, city workers weave memory with history as they guide visitors through 'America's Most Historic City'. Through an examination of three of Fredericksburg's tourism work environments we show how representations succeed in reproducing heritage tourism spaces precisely because representation is work.",
keywords = "Embodiment, Everyday practice, Heritage tourism, Representation, Work",
author = "Hanna, {Stephen P.} and {Del Casino}, {Vincent J.} and Casey Selden and Benjamin Hite",
note = "Funding Information: We have to begin by thanking all the people in Fredericksburg who shared their time and experiences with us. Their insights were incredibly valuable and any error in interpretation is of course our own. We would also like to thank Mary Washington College and California State University, Long Beach for their financial support of the research for this project as well as The Australian National University{\textquoteright}s Department of Human Geography of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies for providing space and time to complete this work. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the Association of American Geographers and the National Meeting of the Association in 2001 and 2002, respectively. We want to thank Derek Alderman, Owen Dwyer and Steven Hoelscher for inviting us to participate in these sessions and for organizing this special issue. We also wish to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their comments. Vincent Del Casino was working as a Visiting Research Fellow at The Australian National University{\textquoteright}s Department of Human Geography, in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies when completing this paper.",
year = "2004",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1080/1464936042000252822",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "5",
pages = "459--481",
journal = "Social and Cultural Geography",
issn = "1464-9365",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "3",
}