Auschwitz: Museum Interpretation and Darker Tourism

Miles, William F. S.

doi:10.1016/s0160-7383(02)00054-3

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“…Indeed, in the study by Biran et al (2010) to investigate the motivations of visitors to Auschwitz, education was the prime factor. Winter (2009) andMiles (2002) point out that memorial sites must have the capacity to stimulate feelings of empathy, piety and respect. Indeed, Switzer (2005) claims that honouring the war dead has become for many a sacred experience, symbolised in memorials, military cemeteries and communal ceremonies.…”

Section: Visiting Memorialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The stones, known as Stolpersteine (literally stumbling stones), are placed in the very spot where victims lived, imbuing them with the locational authenticity that Miles (2002) refers to: the memorial was evocative, calling to the viewer's imagination. The project belongs to the artist Gunter Demnig who has installed 43,500 stones since 1993 in several European countries (Demnig, 2014).…”

Section: Confronting Atrocitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Memorials to the victims of Nazism: the impact on tourists in Berlin

Brown

2014

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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This qualitative study explores tourist responses to memorials to the victims of Nazism in Berlin and the impact they have on the tourist experience. The findings are located in the field of study known as dark tourism, of which visiting memorials is a part. The analysis shows that tourists increased their knowledge of the crimes committed by the Nazis, thus fulfilling the educational function of memorials. Tourists were also overwhelmed by their experience; they attested to feelings of sadness, shock, anger, despair and incomprehension. These feelings made it hard for them to resume the role of tourist after their exposure to a memorial. There was acknowledgement of the extent of commemoration practised in Germany.

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Section: Visiting Memorialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Confronting Atrocitymentioning

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Memorials to the victims of Nazism: the impact on tourists in Berlin

Brown

2014

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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“…The recent production of dark tourist imaginaries moves from conventional enactments of a reflexive journey to previous epochs (hence, imagined 'sites') of simulated happiness for foreign onlookers and tourists to the enactment of an activist ethic to improve the well-being of Greeks and their new refugee populations, both consigned to living in dire conditions. To define this darkness we borrow from what Miles (2002) terms 'darker tourism', Kaelber 'darkest tourism' (200ι) and Peirce (1998) debates in terms of an enactment of experience. Put simply, current tourist imaginaries of Greece look back to individual and collective/national histories that were eroded by time, intentionally modified and romanticised and therefore are today malleable by industries and individual tourists alike.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tourism in the European economic crisis: Mediatised worldmaking and new tourist imaginaries in Greece

Tzanelli

Korstanje

2016

Tourist Studies

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The paper interrogates the rationale and origins of changing imaginaries of tourism in Greece in the context of the current economic crisis. We detect a radical change in the 'picture' of the country that circulates in global media conduits (YouTube, Facebook, official press websites and personal blogs). We enact a journey into past media representations of Greece as an idyllic peasant and working-class site, but proceed to highlight that such representations are being recycled today by Greeks living and studying abroad. This stereotype, which focuses on embodied understandings of happiness and well-being is being challenged by the current economic crisis. In its place, we detect the emergence of a new dark and slum imaginary, propagated by both native and global intellectuals-activists. The new imaginary both tests in practice and bears the potential to re-invent Greece as a tourist destination. Not only is the change informed by the European histories of art, slum and dark tourism focusing on middle-class refinement and philanthropy, it also bears the potential to promote Greece as a cultural tourist destination in global value hierarchies in controversial ways.

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“…For some voices, dark tourism expresses a sadist nature, exploited by capitalist states to vulnerates the rights of minorities (Koch 2005), whereas for others it represents an anthropological attachment to death, very present in secularized societies (Lennon & Folley, 2000;Miles, 2002). What is clear, dark tourism connoting territories where mass-death or suffering have determined the identity of a community (Poria, 2007;Chauhan & Khanna, 2009).…”

Section: The Roots Of Dark Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Death Seekers as Diplomats of Thana Capitalism

Korstanje¹

2017

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This essay review is not an applied research, nor ethnography conducted in dark tourism places, rather, it connotes with a conceptual debate respecting to the shifts in holiday-making process suffered recently. This marks the rise and expansion of a new facet of capitalism, Thana Capitalism, with a definite class, death-seekers who are prone to consume events, situations of pain and suffering to reinforce their own supremacy. Beyond the so-called interests or sensibility for the other, dark tourism practices hidden a perverse core which is unveiled in this discussion. KEYWORDSTourism. Death Seekers. Capitalism. Thana Capitalism. Mobilities. RESUMOEste ensaio não trata de pesquisa aplicada ou de etnografia em locais de turismo 'dark', mas, sim, encaminha um debate conceitual sobre as mudanças nos processos recentes das viagens. Processos que marcam o surgimento e expansão de uma nova faceta do capitalismo, o Thana Capitalismo, que se caracteriza pela presença de uma classe de consumidores propensos a consumir eventos, locais e situações mórbidas ou situações de dor e sofrimento, para reforçar sua própria supremacia. Além dos interesses ou [in]sensibilidade para com o outro, as práticas obscuras do turismo escondem um núcleo perverso, revelado nesta discussão.

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Auschwitz: Museum Interpretation and Darker Tourism

Cited by 281 publications

References 4 publications

Memorials to the victims of Nazism: the impact on tourists in Berlin

Memorials to the victims of Nazism: the impact on tourists in Berlin

Tourism in the European economic crisis: Mediatised worldmaking and new tourist imaginaries in Greece

Death Seekers as Diplomats of Thana Capitalism

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