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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Death Tourism
• Subtitle: Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356
• EAN: 9780857421074
• ISBN: 0857421077
• ID: 04742537
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Weight: 578 g
• Dimensions: 159 × 233 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. December 2014

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