Theming the Nation
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2024

Theme parks, museums, and heritage sites play a decisive role in nation and community building, they form key locations for identity politics -the recollection of culture and history and the claiming of social cohesion and political sovereignty.By looking at a specific collaboration project between the private French company Puy du Fou from the Vende, a successful player in the international theme-park and show business, and the American tribal nation of the EBCI (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian