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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01 The student, Casey Moran, accepted the attached license on 2025-07-05 at 10:37. The student, Casey Moran, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2025-07-05 at 10:45. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2025-07-08 at 16:33. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #22413 on 2025-10-25 at 15:52:58 Challenging settler colonialism in Appalachian heritage Tourism Moran, Casey Dakota 2025-07-08 Stewart, William Stewart, William Santos, Carla Soulard, Joelle Kashani, Maryam Settler Colonialism Heritage Tourism Tourism Appalachia Gender eng Appalachia is a region of the United States in the midst of an economic transition away from extractive industries. Heritage tourism has been suggested as an alternative economic development strategy for Appalachia, but there is a need for more critical research exploring how heritage tourism can reinforce inequitable power structures like settler colonialism. Berea, KY was selected as a research site because of its long history as a tourism destination for Appalachian arts and crafts and its potential for diverse heritage discourses. Authorized heritage discourses in Berea were shown to reinforce settler colonial discourses like the reinforcement of the heteropatriarchy and the erasure of Black and Indigenous Appalachians, resulting in the elevation of white, settler heroes. However, there was evidence that multivocal heritage management practices could resist settler colonial discourses. Interviews with community residents revealed that settler colonialism and its attendant structures of heteropatriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy negatively impacted heritage tourism development. The authorized heritage discourses and lived experiences of community members revealed the deep entanglement and pervasiveness of settler colonial structures and discourses. Settler colonialism is often reinforced through heritage tourism discourses and development, but an unsettled heritage tourism praxis could use heritage tourism discourse to resist settler colonialism. Heritage tourism could be conceptualized as an unsettling force through multivocal heritage practices, the elevation of marginalized voices, and the return of control and autonomy to Indigenous communities. 2025-08 Text https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130143 Copyright 2025 Casey Moran Recreation, Sport and Tourism Recreation, Sport, and Tourism University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation