Dear TourismAntro folks: Thanks to Alan Lew for the State Dept. note on
Kashmir. On the tourism and war relation, there has been a lot on war
memorials, veterans tourism, and the politics of national identity (as
others have mentioned). (e.g. James Young's 'The Texture of Memory:
Holocaust Memorials and Meaning' (1993)).
From the Pacific arena of WWII: Geoff White wrote a wonderful
piece concerning the various memorials put up on Gudalcanal as part of
Operation Rememberance (organized by the US Dept. of Defense) to
commemorate the 50th aniversary of the major battles fought by Americans
in the Pacific during WWII. This was invited and supported by the national
government of the Solomon Islands to promote both national identity in the
archipelago as well as international tourism to the country.
See also:
de Burlo, C. (1989) "Islanders, Soldiers, and Tourists: The War
and the Shaping of Tourism in Melanesia" in: "The Pacific Theater:Island
Representations of World War II". Geoff White and Lamont Lindstrom, eds.
Honolulu: Univ. Hawai'i Press.
Geoff asks really insightful questions about the kinds of histories taht
emerge when transnational memory-making converges with tourism and war
rememberance.
Chuck de Burlo
Dept. Geography
Univ. Vermont
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