Dark tourism and Rwandan media industries: Promoting nation and the mythology of memory

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-10 DOI:10.1177/14687976221129643

A. Young

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to delve into the range of ways that acceptable public discourse and reconciliatory language impact Rwandan memorial space and its various stakeholders. The goal is to interrogate the dissonance between the more commonly researched practices of Rwanda genocide tourism industry (the curated and controlled narratives formulated within the national memorial and its satellite sites) and that of the banal, every day, and even disavowed sites (such as unmarked burial and crematorium sites) of genocide that carry an immense amount of meaning within local communities. By looking at national genocide sites, as well as their “forgotten echoes” strewn across the Rwandan countryside, it is clear that multipurpose (and multi-meaning) use of public/private space in Rwanda problematizes simplistic unificatory narratives used by the government and international community.

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黑暗旅游与卢旺达媒体产业:促进民族与记忆神话

本研究的目的是深入探讨可接受的公共话语和和解语言对卢旺达纪念空间及其各种利益相关者的影响。其目的是质疑卢旺达种族灭绝旅游业更常见的研究实践（在国家纪念馆及其卫星网站内策划和控制的叙事）与平庸的、每天，甚至是在当地社区具有巨大意义的否认种族灭绝遗址（如没有标记的墓地和火葬场）。通过观察国家种族灭绝遗址，以及它们散布在卢旺达农村的“被遗忘的回声”，很明显，卢旺达对公共/私人空间的多用途（和多意义）使用，使政府和国际社会使用的简单统一叙事成了问题。

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来源期刊

Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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6.90

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.