Separate Space
We are told that to avoid having tourism debase local communities, we should "create a separate space, both psychologically and physically, where local communities can nourish their own myths and social lives" (Chris Wilson, quoted in Lippard 1999, 61)
This sounds at first like a good idea -- though we might wonder to what extent it is possible in today's world. What dualities and intrusions can't be avoided?
On a deeper level this recommendation is puzzling. It sounds opposed to what many of the same critics urge as multicultural urbanity. Does it sound like a recommendation for the kind of homogeneous subcommunities that critics also attack?
(c) David Kolb, 1 August 2001