Heritage that hurts
Subtitle: tourists in the memoryscapes of September 11
By: Joy Sather-Wagstaff
Series: Heritage, tourism and community; Heritage, tourism, and community
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781598745436; 9781598745443
Subjects: Heritage tourism; War memorials; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Holocaust memorials
Other titles: Tourists in the memoryscapes of September 11
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Memory, space/place, tourism : paradigms and problems; title: Unpacking "dark" tourism; title: Consumption, meaning, commemoration; title: Marking memorial spaces, making dialogic memoryscapes; title: The material culture of violence and commemoration in public display; title: The social life of things : material and visual culture of travel and personal historiography; title: Conclusion: The contest of meaning and cultures of commemoration.