What is it about?
My articles talks about tourists to Holocaust memorials and museums, and argues that they are not just passive consumers or, worse, voyeurs. Instead, I suggest that Holocaust tourists can be key players in the preservation of collective Holocaust remembrance.
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Why is it important?
Tourism is the the world's largest industry, and tourism to Holocaust destinations is a huge phenomenon. There are too few account of Holocaust tourism that consider why it is significant, or how it is not just a commercialized, inauthentic activity. This article engages with multiple disciplinary perspectives on Holocaust memory and tourism studies to offer a more nuanced account.
Perspectives
Though trained in German Studies, this article represents my effort to reach an audience of humanities and social science scholars to argue for the importance of regarding tourism as a meaningful cultural phenomenon. I'd like to take tourists seriously as producers of meaning and as stewards of memory.
Prof. Daniel P Reynolds
Grinnell College
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This page is a summary of: Consumers or witnesses? Holocaust tourists and the problem of authenticity, Journal of Consumer Culture, March 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1469540516635396.
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