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Touring the Troubles in West Belfast: Building Peace or Reproducing Conflict?
Peace & Change (2010)
  • Wendy A. Wiedenhoft Murphy, John Carroll University
Abstract

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.

Keywords
  • Tourism,
  • West Belfast,
  • Peace
Publication Date
2010
Publisher Statement
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: "Touring the Troubles in West Belfast: Building Peace or Reproducing Conflict?" Peace & Change, October 2010, 35: 537-560, which was p[published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00655.x/abstract
Citation Information
Wendy A. Wiedenhoft Murphy. "Touring the Troubles in West Belfast: Building Peace or Reproducing Conflict?" Peace & Change Vol. 35 (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/wendy_wiedenhoftmurphy/5/