Leisure, Tourism and Environment: Concepts and

Approaches (GEO 30306)

Weekly assignment: Reading and analysing academic writing
Your group name________________________
1

Correctly write the full

bibliographic citation of the
academic text being analysed.
(Use either the Harvard or APA
citation format to do this.)
Identify the texts main
argument or hypothesis

Identify a) the key sets of

scholarly literature and b) the
key scholarly debates that the
author invokes to situate his/her
rationale for developing his/her
texts specific argument or
hypothesis (i.e., how does the
author demonstrate that his/her
contribution is scientifically
meaningful and relevant, and to
which kinds of scholars
specifically?)

The researchers believe that heritage can be

better understood as both as material and
socio psychological testimony of identity.
Hence, they focus on the pertinence of
intangible assets, subjective accounts and
individual narratives involved in socio cultural
contextualization.
They try to assess the conceptual and
symbolic interrelation between heritage
tourism and national identity.
They also examine how domestic tourist and
site employees within the heritage setting of
Changdeok Palace subjectivity and
contextually perceive elements of shared
social memory and nationhood.
a) The key sets of scholarly literature
- Disagreement definition of nationalism
and national identity due to their complex
and multifarious characteristics
(Hutchinson & Smith, 1994; Kedourie,
1994)
- They are contrasting modernity and
primordial perspectives in order to
emphasize and understand the complexity
of this study. Modernity perspectives cited
(Anderson, 1983; Gellner, 1983; Nairn,
1997) while primordial perspectives cited
(Geertz, 1973; Smith, 1991, 1994)
- They also cited different views about
heritage tourism fundamental role in
imagining an essence of national identity,
part of symbolic system, and unifying sign
(Palmer, 1998, 2005; Geertz, 1973;
Meethan, 2001; Bessiere, 1998)
- Kumar (2003) is cited to explain the
essence of English national identity in
differentiating political nation and cultural
nation.
b) The key scholarly debates
- The principle of tanil minjok (one
homogeneous race) is still remained
remarkably be held as primary base of
ethic and cultural homogeneity nation in

Identify the main conclusions

reached in the text

Identify a) the set of supporting

reasons that the author
develops in the text in order to
be able to reach the main
conclusions identified in point 4
above and b) briefly summarise
on what these supporting
reasons are based

the consciousness of Korean people.

However, this primary constructed is over
emphasized. Some narratives expressed
their belief and pride which reinforce
articulations of an exclusive.
- In South Korea there has been less
concerned in ethnographic research within
heritage studies, which is important to
comprehend social phenomena.
- There is a tendency for some ethno
narratives to relate the authenticity of
Korean identity and culture to pre-modern,
traditional virtues and traits. Hence, social
transformations and modern advances
should not necessarily deter individuals
from holding onto the fundamental and
unified belief in what mainly constitutes
Koreanness
Conclusion 1:
A sense of national identity is closely associated
with emotional attachments to the nation rather
than its external manifestations.
Conclusion 2:
The heritage presentations and representations of
Changdeok contribute to melding the nations
collective and shared memories of the past into the
present context as a rhetorical manifestation of
openly expressed and individually appropriated
forms of nationalism.
a) The set of supporting reasons
Conclusion 1:
Some narratives mentioned through their
comment that I once visited here in
Korea, the colour, the smell, throughout
the tour that old memory just sprang back
up and haunted me all the way, also
another example I dont know what is
exactly but this place does have
something that makes me think all about
this it is very difficult to explain but I just
feel something deep. The socio
psychological dimension of heritage acts
as a powerful agent for perpetuating their
emotional association and cultural affinity
in Korea.
Conclusion 2:
Tourists tend to initiate the process of
conceptualising an essence of national belonging
through oral narratives focusing on personal
memories and subjective experiences. The following
comments show national memories provoked within
Changdeok Palace, What I am impressed with is
that I feel like I have been able to think about my
nation in an individual way. [Man in his forties]. It
can be assumed that heritage tourism is not just a
commodity of heritage artefacts but also a
reaffirmation of national meanings and values.

Identify a) the approach taken

in the text from among the
approaches we cover in the
course (i.e., positivist, Marxian
political economy-based,
interpretivist/constructionist,
feminist or post-structural) and b)
the key characteristics of that
approachs epistemology,
ontology and methodology

Identify a few examples or key

words from the text that provide
evidence of how that
approachs epistemology,
ontology and methodology
(identified in point 6 above) are
used in the text

b) Brief summary on what these supporting

reasons are based
Tourists tend to initiate the process of
conceptualising an essence of national
belonging through oral narratives focusing on
personal memories and subjective
experiences.
The approach is: Interpretivist
-

Its ontology:
Seeing object as subject.
Capture the reality based on somebody point
of view or experiences about reality.
The researcher is part of society.
The researcher acknowledge the thing they
study as social mechanism

Its epistemology:
Using constructionism as baseline.
Demonstrate about the foundation, how the
meaning is shared collectively.

Its methodology:
The researchers formulate ethnographic
studies (qualitative method) which focus on
interpretation of the sample through
individual experiences and personal
interpretation to get thick description to
describe the truth o reality.

Ontology:
The researcher want to examine the role of
unofficial and informal mechanisms of national
identity formation via heritage tourism experiences.
This is showing that they are holding to the
existence of social mechanism.
Epistemology:
The researcher focus on assessing the conceptual
and symbolic interrelationship between heritage
tourism and national identity. Substantial focus is
placed on contextualising ways in which shared
memories of the nations past are subjectively
perceived and re-appropriated during visits to
Changdeok Palace, South Korea.

Use appropriate examples to

demonstrate and describe how
the epistemology influences
the methodology in the text

Methodology:
This study utilises ranging ethnographic approaches
including in-depth interviews and friendly
conversations with domestic tourists and palace
staff.
The ethnographic approach is the most appropriate
methodological framework to reveal diverse
meaning of conceptual and symbolic
interrelationship which include opinions and
interpretation of particular social phenomena.