TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sion,Brigitte
ED  - Conference 'Death/Dark/Thanatourism'
TI  - Death tourism: disaster sites as recreational landscape 
SN  - 0857421077
AV  - G156.5.D37 C66 2010
U1  - 790.18 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London, Calcutta
PB  - Seagull Books
KW  - Dark tourism
KW  - Congresses
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1. Tourism and/as memory -- Part 2. Exhibiting death -- Part 3. Negotiating return -- Part 4. Identity politics -- --; Introduction; Brigette Sion -- --; Part 1; 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 Chile; Diana Taylor --; The Manhattan Project Time Machine: atomic tourism in Oak Ridge, Tennesse; Lindsay A. Freeman -- --; Part 2; Exhibiting death --; Conflicting sites of memory in post-genocide Cambodia; Brigitte Sion --; Resisting Holocaust tourism: the new gedennnkstatte at Bergen-Belsen, Germany; Rainer Schulze --; From evidence to relic to artifact: curating in the aftermath of 11 September 2001; Mark Schaming -- --; Part 3; 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 Budapaest, Hungary; Aniko Szucs -- --; Part 4; 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
N2  - "Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia's killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and trauma mediated by thanotourism, or tourism of death? In Death Tourism, Brigitte Sion brings together essays by some of the most trenchant voices in the field to look at the tensions created by the juxtaposition of human remains and food stands, political agendas and educational programs, economic development and architectural ambition. How does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? A timely volume on an irresistible subject, this inquiry exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic."--Publisher's website; Papers presented at the Conference 'Death/Dark/Thanatourism' at New York University in April 2010
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