Physical Description
ix, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents
Part I. Tourism and/as memory
Ethical spaces : ethics and propriety in trauma tourism / Laurie Beth Clark
Drama as durational performance : a walk through Villa Grimaldi, Santiago de Chile / Diana Taylor
The Manhattan Project time machine : atomic tourism in Oak Ridge, Tennessee / Lindsey A. Freeman
Theme parks and station plaques : memory, tourism and forgetting in post-Aum Japan / Mark Pendleton
Part II. Exhibiting death
Conflicting sites of memory in post-genocide Cambodia / Brigitte Sion
Resisting Holocaust tourism : the new Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen, Germany / Rainer Schulze
From evidence to relic to artefact / curating in the aftermath of 11 September 2001 / Mark Schaming
Part III. Negotiating return
Noshing at the necropolis : trauma, gastrotourism and Jewish cultural memory / S.I. Salamensky
Sites of absence and presence : tourism and the morbid material culture of death in Brittany / Maura Coughlin
The Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) and the politics of trauma tourism in Argentina / Cara L. Levey
From shrine to theme park : the house of terror in Budapest, Hungary / Aniko Szucs
Part IV. Identity politics
Borderline memory disorder : Trieste and the staging of Italian national identity / Susanne C. Knittel
Return to Alcatraz : dark tourism and the representation of prison history / Mary Rachel Gould
Between violence and romance : gorillas, genocide and Rwandan tourism / Staphanie McKinney
Welcome to Sarajevo! Touring the powder keg / Patrick Naef.
Other Authors/Editors
Sion, Brigitte, editor.
Death/Dark/Thanatourism (2010 : New York University)
ISBN
9780857421074
0857421077
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
