ISBN:
9781598746686
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (243 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Heritage, tourism and community
Series Statement:
Heritage, Tourism & Community v.4
Parallel Title:
Print version Heritage That Hurts : Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11
DDC:
306.4/819
Keywords:
Heritage tourism
;
War memorials
;
Holocaust memorials
;
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
;
Heritage tourism
;
Holocaust memorials
;
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
;
War memorials
;
Electronic books
;
Gewalt
;
Politik
;
Gedenkstätte
;
Katastrophentourismus
Abstract:
Memorial sites, sites of “dark tourism,” are vernacular spaces that are continuously negotiated, constructed, and reconstructed into meaningful places. Using the locale of the 9/11 tragedy, Joy Sather-Wagstaff explores the constructive role played by tourists in understanding social, political, and emotional impacts of a violent event that has ramifications far beyond the local population. Through in-depth interviews, photographs, graffiti, even souvenirs, she compares the 9/11 memorial with other hurtful sites—the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Vietnam Veteran’s Me
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-Memory, Space/Place, Tourism: Paradigms and Problems ; Chapter 3-Unpacking "Dark" Tourism; Chapter 4-Consumption, Meaning, Commemoration; Chapter 5-Marking Memorial Spaces, Making Dialogic Memoryscapes; Chapter 6-The Material Culture of Violence and Commemoration in Public Display; Chapter 7-The Social Life of Things: Material and Visual Culture of Travel and Personal Historiography; Chapter 8-Conclusion: The Contest of Meaning and Cultures of Commemoration ; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; About the Author
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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