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Heritage that hurts : tourists in the memoryscapes of September 11 / Joy Sather-Wagstaff.

By: Sather-Wagstaff, Joy.
Series: Heritage, tourism, and community: Publisher: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2011Description: 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781598745436 (hbk.); 1598745433 (hbk.); 9781598745443 (pbk.); 1598745441 (pbk.).Other title: Tourists in the memoryscapes of September 11.Subject(s): Heritage tourism | War memorials | Holocaust memorials | September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001DDC classification: 306.4819
Contents:
Introduction -- Memory, space/place, tourism : paradigms and problems -- Unpacking "dark" tourism -- Consumption, meaning, commemoration -- Marking memorial spaces, making dialogic memoryscapes -- The material culture of violence and commemoration in public display -- The social life of things : material and visual culture of travel and personal historiography -- Conclusion: The contest of meaning and cultures of commemoration.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-238) and index.

Introduction -- Memory, space/place, tourism : paradigms and problems -- Unpacking "dark" tourism -- Consumption, meaning, commemoration -- Marking memorial spaces, making dialogic memoryscapes -- The material culture of violence and commemoration in public display -- The social life of things : material and visual culture of travel and personal historiography -- Conclusion: The contest of meaning and cultures of commemoration.