TOUR 2P31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Civil Rights Museum, Phytophthora Infestans, New Denver
15 Mar 2018
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Difficulties with atrocity: atrocity is highly sensitive and emotionally charged, concern for this course- use of heritage of atrocity, relict artefacts, buildings, sites and place associations. Natural and accidental disaster: floods, plagues, fires, earthquakes, european potato blight of 1840s, plagues- impact of settlers on indigenous populations, ss titanic 1912. Inherit the status of victim or perpetrator: african slavery, indigenous populations, difficult to link to sites or buildings, national civil rights museum in memphis tennessee (site where martin luther king was assassinated) has become major tourist attraction. War as atrocity: the second world war, atomic bomb blast sites in japan, tourism marketing sites of conflict of ww2, atrocities of various armies. Genocide as atrocity: attempt to eliminate jewish people from europe from 1933 to 1945, bosnian muslims and serbs in 1993 in ex-yugoslavia, rwanda 1993, aboriginal societies in north and south america, australia and south africa.
