Search for dissertations about: "dark tourism"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words dark tourism.

  2. 1. Painful legacy of World War II: Nazi forced enlistment : Alsatian/Mosellan Prisoners of War and the Soviet Prison Camp of Tambov

    Author : Florence Fröhlig; Mats Lindqvist; Barbro Blehr; Susanne Nylund Skog; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Legacy of World War II; forced conscription; prisoners of war; Alsace Moselle; Soviet prison camp; internment; captivity; Tambov; traumatic experiences; construction of silence; family of remembrance; master narrative; pilgrimage; dark tourism; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Abstract : This dissertation concerns the legacy of the Nazi forced enlistment during World War II and focuses more precisely on the case of Alsace/Moselle. Many of these French men, enlisted by force from 1942 in the German army, were sent to the Eastern Front and experienced Soviet prison camps. READ MORE

  4. 2. Hope and rust : Reinterpreting the industrial place in the late 20th century

    Author : Anna Storm; Sverker Sörlin; Tim Edensor; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; industrial history; history of technology; cultural history; industrial heritage; hermeneutics; museology; Sweden; Avesta; Ironbridge; Duisburg; 20th century; reuse; place; materiality; authenticity; History of technology and industry; Teknik- och industrihistoria;

    Abstract : Industrial society has changed thoroughly during the last half a century. In many Western cities and towns, new patterns of production and consumption entailed that centrally located industrial areas became redundant. The once lively workplace and urban core became silent and abandoned, gradually falling into decay. READ MORE