‘Torches aloft’ to Glastonbury

Hodsdon, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-4852 and Moenandar, Sjoerd-Jeroen (2025) ‘Torches aloft’ to Glastonbury. In: Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781003459149

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Abstract / Summary

Cultural heritage in Cornwall, UK – as with the other case study contexts and many other regions in Europe – sits in a sometimes uneasy relationship with the national majority culture. Romanticised idylls of ‘picture postcard’ beaches and fishing villages abound in tourism narratives, and the authorised heritage discourse functions to shape much of the way that Cornwall’s distinctive heritage is voiced – or, just as often, is not. Building on the understanding that the way heritage is talked about has a ‘material consequence that matters’, in this chapter Hodsdon and Moenandar analyse how public discourse of media and tourism and hospitality websites mediates two events in Cornwall (Penzance’s Golowan and Padstow May Day). They find a lack of consistency in narratives that range from erasure to othering, and present a model of heritage mediation that describes the range of positionalities on offer, and which can also potentially be used as a tool by discursive actors seeking to describe minority ICH appropriately.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	9781003459149
Subjects:	History, Geography & Environment Social Sciences
Department:	Academy of Innovation and Research
Depositing User:	Nicola Bond
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2025 15:19
Last Modified:	29 Sep 2025 13:13
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6183

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