Cultural capital is assumed to benefit all members of society. It is built up by the aggregate consumption of cultural goods and is diminished through depreciation. In the no-policy market economy, consumers tend to ignore the beneficial external effects of their cultural good consumption on the...

This paper draws on the deconstruction(ist) toolbox and specifically on the textual unweaving tactics of exemplarity, parergonality and supplementarity, with view to critically assessing institutional and ordinary tourists' claims to authenticity as regards artefacts and sites of ‘cultural...