Negative heritage: the material-cultural politics of the American haunted history tour

Kolk, Heidi Aronson

doi:10.1080/08873631.2020.1754083

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“…Ruins have an established history of being haunted. Kolk (2020) engages haunting as a way of spatially engaging unresolved, forgotten, or suppressed history. Till (2005) calls Berlin a city crowded with ghosts, “unnamed, but powerfully present absences” (p. np).…”

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Entangled Memories: Complicating the Memory of Area Bombing Through the Haunted Ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof

Florence

2021

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This article investigates the possibilities for experiential encounters with ruins in Berlin to complicate the dominant articulations of the cultural memory of Allied bombing attacks on German cities during the Second World War. Building on works that seek to disrupt normative models of cultural memory of the bombings, and entangling them with existing literature that uses new materialism to engage the sensorial nature of memory site-encounters, I examine my own fieldwork visits the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof—a former train station—as an entanglement of both. Specifically, I investigate how encountering Anhalter through this entangled method allows the site to emerge as haunted. Encountering Anhalter as haunted might complicate the linear temporality that underpins enduring the narrative that the Allies’ actions during the war were completely ethical because they are largely framed as a response to— ergo following—the Holocaust.

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Entangled Memories: Complicating the Memory of Area Bombing Through the Haunted Ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof

Florence

2021

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“…These attractions also offer a set of activities that are a mix of historical authenticity, horror, and entertainment. Kolk (2020) highlighted the features and cultural significance of haunted tours in the United States. Historical characteristics and heritage sites, ghost history and stories, and supernatural sounds and ghost images are the main attributes of ghost tourism.…”

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Tourist behavioural intentions in ghost tourism: The case of Taiwan

Lee

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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This study used stimulus‐organism‐response theory to identify hypothetical relationships among tourist perception, emotion, memorability, and behavioural intention in ghost tourism. A questionnaire survey was conducted, and 445 valid responses were collected at the Liu Ancient Building. The results revealed significant positive relationships between tourist perception and positive and negative emotions. Furthermore, the results indicated that emotion correlated with memorability. With regard to ghost tourism, positive emotions considerably affect memory than negative emotions. Memorability, a precise predictor of behavioural intention, plays a mediating role between positive emotion and behavioural intention, particularly in ghost tourism. This study provides some suggestions for enhancing behavioural intention and guidance with regard to ghost tourism.

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“…Diverse scholarship has developed from spectral studies to explore haunted heritage and tourism sites (Inglis and Holmes 2003;Miles 2015;Bucior 2020;Kolk 2020). Frequently, these works address ghosts as part of a haunted modernity, where, as Avery Gordon demonstrates, haunting is rooted in fear and 'always registers the harm inflicted or the loss sustained by a social violence done in the past or in the present… the domain of turmoil and trouble…' (Gordon [1997(Gordon [ ] 2008.…”

Section: Ghosts and Hauntingsmentioning

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Haunted Intimacy: Spectral and Vital Space within a Historic House Museum

Franz¹

2021

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Merchant’s House Museum is haunted. While it functions as a historic house museum in Manhattan, the house remains the home of the Tredwell family who now appear as ghosts. For the museum, these ghosts become animating presences, continuing to keep the everyday things of the house embedded in the intimate space of a family’s home. Throughout this article, I explore how those connected to the house as staff, visitors, and volunteers present the ghosts of the Tredwells and, based on these peoples’ experiences, I examine the Tredwell house within a museological framework of, what I term, haunted intimacy, that keeps the house in vital relation to the family.

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Negative heritage: the material-cultural politics of the American haunted history tour

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

Entangled Memories: Complicating the Memory of Area Bombing Through the Haunted Ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof

Entangled Memories: Complicating the Memory of Area Bombing Through the Haunted Ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof

Tourist behavioural intentions in ghost tourism: The case of Taiwan

Haunted Intimacy: Spectral and Vital Space within a Historic House Museum

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