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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2018, Vol. 33 Issue (6): 18-27    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2018.06.003
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THE PROGRESS AND ENLIGHTENMENT OF MEMORY RESEARCH FROM THE TOURISM GEOGRAPHY PERSPECTIVE
WU Wen-jia1,2, SUN Jiu-xia1,2
1. School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
2. The Center of Tourism, Leisure & Social Development, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

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Abstract  Memory, as well as an interdisciplinary concept, has already become a flourishing research field in current western humanities and social sciences academia. Since the 1990s, with the tourism boom and memory turn, tourism geographers from both China and western countries have started to pay attention to memoryrelated researches. This article reviews relevant literatures on memory in social science studies and proposes potential research suggestions to tourism studies in both Chinese and western academia. Firstly, we summarize the general situation of memory studies, including theoretical origins and contributions of different disciplines, especially the one tourism geography makes. Secondly, themes of memory studies in tourism geography have been detected, which are memories represented by physical landscape and meaning production, memory, ritual and identity, and the interplays between tourists' emotional experience and place construction. We find that memory studies in tourism context not only produce a bunch of cultural meanings, but also are conducted under plural geographical scales. Topics are covered on both international relations and national identities, and everyday practice of grassroots with meaning production. However, academia pays less attention to theory development than case studies in memory related studies in human geography research. What should be noticed is that there has not yet formed a fixed research paradigm for memory studies in tourism geography, where geographers draw lessons from other subjects like sociology and psychology. More efforts should be made to systematic research contents and diverse methods can be applied specifically in tourism researches.
Key wordsmemory      place construction      collective memory      tourism geography     
Received: 21 November 2017     
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