| Heritage That Hurts: Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11 Contributor(s): Sather-Wagstaff, Joy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598745441 ISBN-13: 9781598745443 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Travel | Museums, Tours, Points Of Interest - History | United States - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 306.481 |
| LCCN: 2010044938 |
| Series: Heritage, Tourism, and Community |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.88 lbs) 243 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |