ABSTRACT

Nostalgia is an important concept in the study of heritage tourism, especially as a push factor, but less attention is devoted to how nostalgia influences place attachment and vice versa, especially in relation to both individual and collective community experiences. While place attachment has been discussed in the context of second homes, nostalgia has received little attention, with none directed specifically at historic second home communities or those which had recently experienced a disaster. Therefore, this paper presents an analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted among second homeowners in Ocean Beach, New York, which is a century-old second home community with a rich local heritage that was hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The findings show that the respondents display different aspects of nostalgia, in particular endo- and meso- nostalgia. This work conceptualizes meso-nostalgia as an umbrella term for the previously discussed nostalgias which focus on the gray area between personal and collective memories. The findings also show the respondents’ deep connection to the second home landscape, but there was a marked difference between respondents with inherited second homes and those who had purchased them wherein inherited homeowners’ nostalgia was closer to those of permanent residents in previous studies.

摘要

怀旧是遗产旅游研究中的一个重要概念，特别是作为推动因素，但很少有人关注怀旧如何影响地方依恋，反之亦然，特别是在个人和集体社区体验方面。虽然人们在第二家园的背景下讨论了地方依恋，但怀旧却很少受到关注，没有专门针对历史悠久的第二家园社区或最近经历过灾难的社区。因此，本文对纽约海洋海滩的二套房主进行了半结构化访谈分析，该社区是一个具有百年历史、拥有丰富当地遗产的二套房社区，曾于 2012 年遭受桑迪飓风袭击。研究结果表明：受访者表现出不同方面的怀旧情绪，特别是内膜怀旧症和中膜怀旧症。这项工作将中观怀旧概念化为之前讨论的怀旧的总称，重点关注个人记忆和集体记忆之间的灰色地带。调查结果还显示，受访者与第二套住房景观有着深厚的联系，但继承第二套住房的受访者与购买第二套住房的受访者之间存在显着差异，其中继承的房主的怀旧情绪更接近先前研究中永久居民的怀旧情绪。