| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) |
| Series |
Heritage, Tourism & Community |
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Heritage, Tourism & Community
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heritage tourism.
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War memorials.
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Holocaust memorials.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks
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cultural tourism.
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war memorials.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Heritage tourism
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Holocaust memorials
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War memorials
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010044938 |
| ISBN |
9781598746686 |
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1598746685 |
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9781598745436 |
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1598745433 |
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9781598745443 |
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1598745441 |
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