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Affective spaces, sensuous engagements: in quest of a synaesthetic approach to 'dark memorials'

Golanska, Dorota

International journal of heritage studies : IJHS, 2015-09, Vol.21 (8), p.773-790 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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  • Título:
    Affective spaces, sensuous engagements: in quest of a synaesthetic approach to 'dark memorials'
  • Autor: Golanska, Dorota
  • Assuntos: aesthetics ; affects ; dark tourism ; Holocaust memorials ; senses
  • É parte de: International journal of heritage studies : IJHS, 2015-09, Vol.21 (8), p.773-790
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  • Descrição: Although relatively recent, the concepts of 'dark tourism', 'difficult heritage tourism' and 'Holocaust tourism' have already been approached from historical, cultural, sociological, anthropological and managerial perspectives. The article offers a philosophical inquiry of 'dark attractions', inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's work on aesthetics, with an aim of divorcing the term 'dark tourism' from its typically negative valance. It makes use of a synaesthetic understanding of experience and relies on an enlarged idea of perception conceptualised as a dynamic continuity between bodily/affective and intellectual cognitive faculties that are activated in the vibrant interaction with the architectural landscape of the 'dark site'. The emphasis on immediate perception necessarily implies formulation of a concept of 'affective aesthetics' which refers to bodily process, a vital movement that triggers the subject's passionate becoming-other, where 'becoming' stands for an intensive flow of affective (micro)perceptions. Such an approach sheds a different light on 'Holocaust tourism' and the 'pleasures' associated therewith, especially because it provides an explanation to a situation (common at many Holocaust memorials) when visitors are pleased, or positively affected, with representation/image/expression of sadness/atrocity. The synaesthetic operations of 'dark attractions' will be briefly illustrated with an example of the Holocaust memory site in Bełżec, Poland.
  • Editor: Routledge
  • Idioma: Inglês
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