Heritage that hurts : tourists in the memoryscapes of September 11 / Joy Sather-Wagstaff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sather-Wagstaff, Joy.

Series:

Heritage, tourism, and community.

Heritage, tourism, and community

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heritage tourism.

War memorials.

Holocaust memorials.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Memorial sites are vernacular spaces that are continuously negotiated, constructed, and reconstructed into meaningful places. Through in-depth interviews, photographs, and graffiti, the author compares the 9/11 memorial with other hurtful sites to show how tourists construct knowledge through performative activities.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 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; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

First published 2011 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-42751-6

1-315-42752-4

1-315-42753-2

1-59874-668-5

9781315427539

OCLC:

714569714