Prison
Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism
Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism discusses decommissioned Australian prisons currently or potentially functioning as tourist attractions. In particular, it addresses a fundamental question: Do the interpretations and presentations of the sites include and fairly represent the personal stories and experiences associated with those prisons? The author argues that the conventional understanding of most of Australia's historical prisons fosters a radical othering of inmates, and with it the exclusion, distortion and historical neglect of their narratives. This book examines avenues via which neglected narratives may be glimpsed or inferr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4331-0279-0
- EAN: 9781433102790
- Produktnummer: 19042079
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.9 cm 529 g
- Gewicht: 529
Über den Autor
The Author: Jacqueline Z. Wilson is a lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the University of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. She is a graduate of La Trobe University, where she won the David Myer University Medal, and holds a Ph.D. in History from Monash University.
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