Lisa Pigozzi
Lisa Nadia Roberta Pigozzi holds a Master's degree in Tourism and Local Development and is currently a PhD candidate in Sociomuseology with the project financed by UNESCO Chair “Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity”: “Rural areas development through ecomuseums’ actions. The challenge of bottom-up sustainable tourism planning”. She is a member of the ReLeCo Memory, Citizenship and Sociomuseology.
Advisor: Mário Moutinho
Áreas de interesse académico e científico Areas of academic and scientific interest
- Sociology
- Museology
- Ecomuseums
- Participative Heritage management
- Education
- Cultural Heritage
- Responsible Tourism
- Local Development
- Community Tourism
Abstract
The aim of my PhD research project is to study the role of ecomuseums in fostering sustainable and regenerative tourism. I applied a qualitative case study methodology, where I analysed a urban ecomuseum in Italy (Ecomuseo Casilino Ad Duas Lauros), and a rural one in Scotland (Cateran Ecomuseum). My research is oriented in exploring how community-based heritage management processes, implemented by ecomuseums, can be an alternative to the overflowing commodification of the heritage for tourism purposes. The reason for this study is to try to give an answer to the actual sustainability needs, exploring and acting on some of the causes of the polycrisis scenario that the world is facing. Community-based actions could represent an alternative for heritage heritage safeguarding and democratization.