Main entry:

Death/Dark/Thanatourism (Conference) (2010 : New York University),

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2014.

Description:

ix, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Enactments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Brigitte 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 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 2: Exhibiting death -- Conflicting sites of memory in post-genocide Cambodia / Brigitte Sion -- Resisting Holocaust tourism: the new Gedenkstätte at Bergen-Belsen, Germany / Rainer Schulze -- From evidence to relic to artefact: 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. Levy -- From shrine to theme park: the House of Terror in Budapest, 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.

Summary:

Contributed articles presented at the Conference 'Death/Dark/Thanatourism', held at New York University in April 2010.

Resources:
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780857421074 (paperback)
0857421077 (paperback)

Subject:

Gedenkstätte
Dark tourism Congresses.
Tourisme noir Congrès.
Dark tourism.
Historische Stätte
Katastrophentourismus
Tourismus
Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Conference publications.
Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291515
Call No.: BIB 235202
Status: Available