Death Tourism: Disaster Sites As Recreational Landscape - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0857421077 ISBN 13: 9780857421074

Casa editrice: Seagull Books, 2014

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Brigitte Sion is a fellow at the Center for International Research in the humanities and social sciences, a joint initiative of the French National Center for Scientific Research and New York University. She is also author of the forthcomingAbsent Bodies, Uncertain Memorials: Performing Memory in Berlin and Buenos Aires.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Seagull Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857421077
• ISBN 13: 9780857421074
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 337
• Redattore: Sion Brigitte