Heritage That Hurts: Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11

ISBN-13: 9781598745443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 243 str.

Joy Sather Wagstaff

Opis

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. Through in-depth interviews, photographs, graffiti, even souvenirs, she compares the 9/11 memorial with other hurtful sites--the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, and others--to show how tourists construct and disperse knowledge through performative activities, which make painful places salient and meaningful both individually and collectively.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Sather-Wagstaff, Joy