- Summary
- Papers presented at the Conference 'Death/Dark/Thanatourism' at New York University in April 2010.
- Series
- Enactments
Enactments.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London ; New York ; Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2014
©2014
- Contents
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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
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
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, 1970- editor.
Death/Dark/Thanatourism (2010 : New York University)
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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 -- 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.
