Research Catalog

Title

Death tourism : disaster sites as recreational landscape / edited by Brigitte Sion.

Publication

• London ; New York ; Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2014.
• ©2014

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Sion, Brigitte, 1970-
• Death/Dark/Thanatourism (Conference) (2010 : New York University)

Description

ix, 337 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

• Papers presented at the Conference 'Death/Dark/Thanatourism' at New York University in April 2010.
• "Sites of violent death, such as concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, killing field, places of terror attacks, plane crashes and natural disasters have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism -- or its subgenre, death tourism or dark tourism."--Introduction.

Series Statement

Enactments

Uniform Title

Enactments.

Subject

• Dark tourism > Congresses
• Dark tourism
• Gedenkstätte
• Historische Stätte
• Katastrophentourismus
• Tourismus
• Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Tourism and/as memory -- Ethical spaces : ethics and propriety in trauma tourism / Laurie Beth Clark -- Trauma 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, forgetting and tourism 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 / Stephanie McKinney -- Welcome to Sarajevo! touring the powder keg / Patrick Naef.

ISBN

• 9780857421074
• 0857421077

LCCN

2014362302

OCLC

• 894476715
• SCSB-5832483

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries