Death Tourism - Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape (Paperback, New)

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 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 this thanatourism, 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.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Enactments
Release date:	December 2014
First published:	August 2014
Editors:	Brigitte Sion
Dimensions:	159 x 233 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	356
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-107-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry Promotions
LSN:	0-85742-107-7
Barcode:	9780857421074

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