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Exhibiting Dark Heritage

2016
A leading voice in museum education, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill (1999) argued that historically, museums have suffered from characterisations as dull institutions that simply preserve and conserve culture and beliefs that they attract solely the privileged and cultured, or those who are holidaying and have little better to do.
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The dark side of cultural heritage protection

International Journal of Cultural Property, 2020
AbstractThis article introduces the concept of the dark side of cultural heritage protection. It points out how the many and mostly honorable efforts to protect cultural heritage against the harms of war and conflict sometimes contribute to make cultural heritage vulnerable or even to cause its destruction.
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Radioactive Heritage: The Universal Value of Chernobyl as a Dark Heritage Site

Qualitative Inquiry, 2018
In 1986, the world witnessed the worst nuclear power accident in history at Chernobyl. Today, Chernobyl has become a popular site for dark tourism. This autoethnographic study seeks to determine whether Chernobyl has an outstanding universal value to merit designation as a UNESCO heritage site.
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Japan’s Dark Industrial Heritage: An Introduction

Asia-Pacific Journal, 2017
Cultural heritage preservation is literally and metaphorically big business in Japan. Not only does the Japanese government commit considerable resources to the designation of heritage at local, national, and international levels, heritage preservation plays a central role in strategies to develop Japanese tourism on which the country’s economy is ...
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The Bright and Dark Sides of International Heritage Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Abstract This chapter uses the insights gained from previous chapters to outline the bright and dark sides of international heritage law, particularly as seen from the perspective of communities’ engagement with their own heritage and the legal structures around it.
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Emotions and critical thinking at a dark heritage site: investigating visitors’ reactions to a First World War museum in Slovenia

Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2021
Anna Čento Bull, Daniela De Angeli
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Tourists’ construction of diverse identities with natural disaster dark heritage sites

Tourism Geographies, 2023
Honggang Xu
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Soft power and dark heritage

2020
David Clarke, Anna Cento Bull, Marianna Deganutti   +2 more
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Shades of Darkness: Politics, Objects, and Displays in Sighet’s Dark Heritage Sites

Revista Muzeelor
This article explores the interpretation and communication of dark heritage in Sighetu Marmației, focusing on three sites: the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and Anti-Communist Resistance, Pauper’s Cemetery, and the Elie Wiesel Memorial House. We argue that these sites convey Romania’s dark heritage by being associated with events and histories ...
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Berchtesgaden in the shadow of a dark heritage

Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije, Programi, Raziskave kulturnih ...
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