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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.
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Yoneyama, Lisa Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
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Wilson, Jill “Peaceful Times: Revisiting Hiroshima.” Ethos 11, no. 2 (June 2003): 27.
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“A tree grows in Hiroshima.” Earth Island Journal 9, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 12.
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Saito, Hiro “Reiterated Commemoration: Hiroshima as National Trauma.” Sociological Theory 24, no. 4 (December 2006): 353-376.
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Hogan, Michael Hiroshima in History and Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Giamo, Benedict “The Myth of the Vanquished: The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.” The American Quarterly 55, no. 4 (December 2003): 703-728.
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Day Jr., Samuel H “Two Hiroshimas.” Progressive 58, no. 8 (August 1994): 29.
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Cobban, Helena “Looking at Hiroshima: tough, touching.” Christian Science Monitor 92, no. 191 (August 23, 2000): 9.
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Ide, Kanako “A Symbol of Peace and Peace Education: The Genbaku Dome in Hiroshima,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 41, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 12-23.
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Hersey, John Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1946.
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Arch-Hiroshima has a selection of Kenzo Tange’s writings from the Japanese architecture magazine Shinkenchiku, commenting on his design and process.
Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs has its World Heritage Site application documents for Genbaku Dome and a chronology of the memorial and the dome.
The US Department of Energy has facts about the history of the bomb and its toll on Hiroshima.
The city of Hiroshima has information on the annual Peace Memorial Ceremony.
On Slate, Ron Rosenbaum reflects on his 2008 visit to the park.
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S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine external link
This 2003 documentary, directed by the Cambodian-born filmmaker Rithy Panh, returns to the site of the infamous prison S-21 with two survivors and a dozen former soldiers in an effort to confront and understand the legacy of the prison and the Cambodian genocide as a whole.
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The Conscience of Nhem En external link
“The Conscience of Nhem En,” a 2008 documentary directed by Steven Okazaki and nominated for an Academy Award (Best Documentary Short Subject), sheds light on state terror in Cambodia by examining the figure of Nhem En, a young soldier responsible for taking ID photos of thousands of victims imprisoned at the Tuol Sleng Prison (S-21) between 1975 and 1979.
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Williams, Paul “Witnessing Genocide: Vigilance and Remembrance at Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 18, no. 2 (2004): 234-254.
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Williams, Paul “Nationalism and Memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.” In Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, edited by Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone, 175-92. London: Routledge, 2003.
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Williams, Paul “The Atrocity Exhibition: Touring Cambodian Genocide Memorials.” In On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies, edited by A. Smith and Wevers, 197-214. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004.
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Wheeler, David L. “Documenting Genocide in Cambodia, One Face After Another.” Chronicle of Higher Education 45, no. 38 (May 28, 1999): B2.
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“Victims’ Shrine Made of Skulls Is Dismantled By Cambodia.” The New York Times, March 11, 2002.
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Peters, Heather A. “Cambodian history through Cambodian museums.” Expedition 37, no. 3 (1995): 52.
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Nath, Vann A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21. White Lotus, 1998.
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Mydans, Seth
“Out From Behind a Camera at a Khmer Torture House.” The New York Times, October 26, 2007. external link
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Maguire, Peter Facing Death in Cambodia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
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Ledgerwood, Judy “The Cambodian Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: National Narrative.” Museum Anthropology 21, no. 1 (1997): 82-98.
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