Articles tagged "Tourism"
Discussions and Themes
Discussion of Constitution Hill
Constitution Hill is, in many ways, a model for what a multi-faceted memorial site can be. In supplanting a former political prison with the home base of a ...read »
Discussion for Oradour-sur-Glane
In her study of Oradour-sur-Glane, Martyred Village, Sarah Farmer notes the “inherent impossibility” of freezing memory by attempting to preserve the ...read »Tourism and Memory Sites
Tourism is typically associated with pleasure and fun, vacation and escape. What happens, then, when a memorial to mass atrocity becomes a tourist site? In ...read »News
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MacCannell, Dean The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
One of the first scholarly book on theories of tourism and a very accessible study, which includes “negative sightseeing,” a precursor to “dark tourism.”
Guardian Article http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/dark-tourism
The Guardian published a short piece about popular ‘dark tourism’ sites.
Cole, Tim Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler: How History is Bought, Packaged, and Sold. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Cole offers a critique of the commodification of the Holocaust through tourism, merchandising, and other commercial enterprises.
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Bickford, Louis “Transforming a Legacy of Genocide: Pedagogy and Tourism at the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek.” Memory, Memorials, and Museums (MMM) Program, International Center for Transitional Justice, February 2009.
Hughes, Rachel “Dutiful tourism: Encountering the Cambodian genocide.” Asia Pacific Viewpoint 49, no. 3 (December 2008): p318-330. [Addresses questions of ‘dark tourism’ at Tuol Sleng.]
Seaton, A. V. "Guided by the Dark: From Thanatopsis to Thanatourism." International Journal of Heritage Studies 2, no. 4 (1996): pp. 234-244.
The seminal article on Thanatourism, which attempts to describe it, categorize it and show conctete examples without being judgmental.
