Where Lava Meets Memory: Applying Personal Travel Essay Theory to Heritage Reporting in São Miguel
Reflective post that clearly connects the theory of the personal travel essay (disciplined subjectivity, arc of transformation, structure) with a concrete redesign of the FMP in São Miguel: shifting from a heritage inventory to a narrative question with tension (“continuity on unstable ground”). Ready to publish with minor adjustments: reduce the tone of “unit summary” and add a micro-scene/reporting moment that embodies the friction in the field.
