Heritage That Hurts : Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11.

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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 em...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sather-Wagstaff, Joy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2011.
Series:Heritage, Tourism & Community.
Subjects:
2001
Heritage tourism.
War memorials.
Holocaust memorials.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks
Tourisme culturel.
Monuments aux morts.
Monuments de l'Holocauste.
Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, États-Unis.
cultural tourism.
war memorials.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Heritage tourism
Holocaust memorials
War memorials
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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