1st Edition
Heritage That Hurts Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11
By Joy Sather-Wagstaff
Copyright 2011
243 Pages
by
Routledge
243 Pages
by
Routledge
243 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 emotional impacts of a violent event that has ramifications far beyond the local population.... Read more
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;
Biography
Sather-Wagstaff, Joy
