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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Thanatourism: Witnessing Difficult Pasts
Beteiligte:
Timm Knudsen, Britta
Erschienen:
SAGE Publications, 2011
Erschienen in:Tourist Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1177/1468797611412064
ISSN:
1468-7976;
1741-3206
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<jats:p>This study looks at difficult heritage tourism as a form of visiting that to a great extent happens through the tourist’s body as locus. Actual tourists are craving for real experiences in order to feel alive and difficult heritage sites offer this experience of presence to excess. In addition tourists are also interested in witnessing the past and its victims, and the establishment of the witnessing relationship depends on the interactive design present at the site. The difficult pasts in question are situated on site-specific locations in Northern America and Europe and represent classic thanatourist sites bearing on Holocaust, totalitarian communism and terrorism. Through an analysis of the multimodal and interactive design at each site, the article outlines various ways that place designs relate actual tourists and victims of the past.</jats:p>