Heritage That Hurts
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collective memory studies
commemorative
Commemorative Assemblages
Commemorative Landscapes
Commemorative Sites
Dark Tourism
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Family Friend
holocaust
Human Suffering
Kigali Memorial Center
LMDC.
M11 Memorial
material culture analysis
Memorial Landscape
Memorial Museum
Middle Aged Tourists
Oklahoma City Memorial
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Pasco County
performative memorialization practices
Personal Historiography
Port Authority
public memory construction
qualitative fieldwork methods
site
sites
states
Survivor Tree
Terrorist Sites
trade
trauma commemoration research
united
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Viewing Wall
visitor experience analysis
Wild River
world
wtc
WTC Site
WTC Tower
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781598745436
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2011
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Through in-depth interviews, photographs, graffiti, even souvenirs, she compares the 9/11 memorial with other hurtful sites—the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, and others—to show how tourists construct and disperse knowledge through performative activities, which make painful places salient and meaningful both individually and collectively.
Joy Sather-Wagstaff is an assistant professor of anthropology at North Dakota State University. Her research focuses on tourists' experiences at memorial museums and commemorative landscapes, material, visual and intangible culture, memory, community history collection, vernacular photography, cultures of collecting, and disasters. Her publications include: Beyond Content: Thematic, Discourse-centred Qualitative Methods for Analysing Visual Data (forthcoming in 2010, in An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism); Folk Epigraphy as Intangible Heritage at the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City and Beyond (2009, in Intangible Heritage Embodied); Picturing Experience: A Tourist-centred Perspective on Commemorative Historical Sites. (2008, Tourist Studies: An International Journal).
