Tourism, Memorials and Landscapes of Violence

Introduction: Main Themes and Structure of the Book

Chapter 1 Dark Tourism, thanatourism, dissonance in heritage tourism in management: new directions in contemporary tourism research (reprint of research note in the Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2014) Extension to research note for the time period 2013 - 2023

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Introduction Part 1: Remembering the Holocaust The Evolution of a New Memorial Landscape for the Victims of Nazi Germany: the long and complicated path to the recognition of the former Nazi concentration camps as memorials and museums

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Chapter 2 The memorial site at the former Dachau concentration camp (1933 - 1945): a dissonant heritage for a small Bavarian market town which has become an internationally recognized destination

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Chapter 3 The long and twisted road to a memorial: The Kaufering satellite camp complex of the Dachau Concentration Camp and the difficulties of coming to terms with the past

Manfred Deiler (1953 - 2023) and Edith Raim

Chapter 4 German landscapes of commemoration: the difficult legacy of wartime aerospace industries

Dietrich Soyez

Chapter 5 Amsterdam under Nazi German Occupation Remembered (1940 - 1945)

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Introduction Part II: Remembering the Pacific War Contrasting interpretations of the Pacific War events 1937 - 1945 and distinct forms of commemoration: The Japanese Greater East Asian War, Chinese resistance against the Japanese occupying forces and a Pacific wide engagement of the U.S. forces after the Pearl Harbor attack December 7, 1941

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Chapter 6 Tourism to the Lu Gou Qiao: enduring scenic qualities of a landmark bridge and a difficult legacy of a conflict site (reprint of article in the Journal of Heritage Tourism 2021)

Rudi Hartmann and Ming Ming Su

Chapter 7 Remembering Japanese American confinement: memorial practices at Amache and Manzanar

Whitney Peterson and Bonnie J. Clark

Chapter 8 The commemoration of the Yamato battleship war events in popular Japanese culture

Jang Kyungjae

Chapter 9 'Kamikaze' heritage tourism in Japan: a pathway to peace and understanding (reprint of article in the Journal of Heritage Tourism 2020)

Richard Sharpley

Chapter 10 Victims and perpetrators at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Hamilton Bean

Conclusions

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