Ian Convery & Gerard Corsane 
Displaced Heritage 
Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time, sites of suffering are sometimes reframed as sites of memory; through this different lens these ‘difficult’ places become heritage sites that attract tourists. Ranging widely chronologically and geographically, the contributors explore the impact of disasters, trauma and suffering on heritage and sense of place, in both theory and practice.


Contributors: Kai Erikson, Catherine Roberts, Philip R. Stone, Stephen Miles, Susannah Eckersley, Gerard Corsane, Graeme Were, Jo Besley, Tim Padley, Chia-Li Chen, Jonathan Skinner, Diana Walters, Shalini Sharma, Ellie Land, Rob Morley, Ian Convery, John Welshman, Aron Mazel, Andrew Law, Bryony Onciul, Sarah Elliott, Rebecca Whittle, Will Medd, Maggie Mort, Hugh Deeming, Marion Walker, Clare Twigger-Ross, Gordon Walker, Nigel Watson, Richard Johnson, Esther Edwards, James Gardner, Brij Mohan, Josephine Baxter, Takashi Harada, Arthur Mc Ivor, Rupert Ashmore, Peter Lurz, Marc Ancrenaz, Isabelle Lackman, Özgün Emre Can, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir, Mark Wilson, Pat Caplan, Billy Sinclar, Phil O’Keefe

Table of Content

Introduction – Ian Convery and Gerard Corsane and Peter Davis

Dark Tourism and Dark Heritage: Emergent Themes, Issues and Consequences – Catherine Roberts and Philip R Stone

Anthropogenic Disaster and Sense of Place: Battlefield Sites as Tourist Attractions – Stephen Miles

Memorialisation in Eastern Germany: Displacement, (Re)placement and Integration of Macro- and Micro-Heritage – Susannah Eckersley

Memorialisation in Eastern Germany: Displacement, (Re)placement and Integration of Macro- and Micro-Heritage – Gerard Corsane

Remembering the Queensland Floods: Community Collecting in the Wake of Natural Disaster – Jo Besley

Remembering the Queensland Floods: Community Collecting in the Wake of Natural Disaster – Graeme Were

Displaced Heritage and Family Histories: Could a Foreign Family’s Heritage in China Become an Ecomuseum ‘Hub’ for Cultural Tourism Management? – Gerard Corsane

Walls, Displacement and Heritage – Tim Padley

Remembering Traumatic Events: The 921 Earthquake Education Park, Taiwan – Chia-Li Chen

Maze Breaks in Northern Ireland: Terrorism, Tourism and Storytelling in the Shadows of Modernity – Jonathan Skinner

‘We shall never forget, but cannot remain forever on the battlefield’: Museums, Heritage and Peacebuilding in the Western Balkans – Diana Walters

The Politics of Remembering Bhopal – Shalini Sharma

Animating the Other Side: Animated Documentary as a Communication Tool for Exploring Displacement and Reunification in Germany – Ellie Land

Restoring Gorongosa: Some Personal Reflections – Rob Morley and Ian Convery

The Last Night of a Small Town: Child Narratives and the
Titanic – John Welshman

Troubled ‘Homecoming’: Journey to a Foreign yet Familiar Land – Aron Mazel

Humiliation Heritage in China: Discourse, Affectual Governance and Displaced Heritage at Tiananmen Square – Andy Law

Revitalising Blackfoot Heritage and Addressing Residential School Trauma – Bryony Onciul

Reading Local Responses to Large Dams in South-east Turkey – Sarah Elliot

Placing the Flood Recovery Process – Rebecca Whittle and Hugh Deeming and William Medd and Maggie Mort and Marion Walker and Claire Twigger-Ross and Gordon Walker

Village Heritage and Resilience in Damaging Floods and Debris Flows, Kullu Valley, Indian Himalaya – Richard Johnson

Village Heritage and Resilience in Damaging Floods and Debris Flows, Kullu Valley, Indian Himalaya – Esther Edwards

Village Heritage and Resilience in Damaging Floods and Debris Flows, Kullu Valley, Indian Himalaya – James Gardner

Cultural Heritage and Animal Disease: The Watchtree Memorial Stone – Josephine Baxter

Earthquakes: People, Landscape and Heritage in Japan – Takashi Harada

Industrial Heritage and the Oral Legacy of Disaster: Narratives of Asbestos Disease Victims from Clydeside, Scotland – Athur Mc Ivor

Translating Foot and Mouth: Conveying Trauma in Landscape Photography – Rupert Ashmore

Changing ‘Red to Grey’: Alien Species Introductions to Britain and the Displacement and Loss of Native Wildlife from our Landscapes – Peter Lurz

Displacing Nature: Orang-utans in Borneo – Marc Ancrenaz and Isabelle Lackman

Better to be a Beast than Evil: Human-Wolf Interaction and Putting Central Asia on the Map – Özgün Emre Can

After
nanoq: flat out and bluesome: A Cultural Life of Polar Bears: Displacement as a colonial trope and strategy in contemporary art – Mark Wilson

After
nanoq: flat out and bluesome: A Cultural Life of Polar Bears: Displacement as a colonial trope and strategy in contemporary art – Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir

What Heritage? Whose Heritage? Debates Around Culling Badgers in the UK – Pat Caplan

The Great Barrier Reef: Environment, Disaster and Heritage – Billy Sinclair

Endpiece – Phil O’Keefe

List of Contributors