not a modern phenomena, thanatopic tradition (seaton,1996), world war 1 catalyst, symbol for hope (Fraley), site to encourage reflection, gonetoosoon.org, agency to make meaning (fraley)
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stevens and franck-valuable new ways of engaging with the past, winter 1995-individual and collective grief, bowman and pezzullo- travel to mourn for potential ancestors sacred site, moutinto- new generation, merge- dual purpose, titta- feed hunger
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normalised, durkheim, process diana, diana memorial, rise in social media, paris attack, facebook, encourages individuals to remember and provide hope
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historical account, auschwitz educates, doss 2008- contemporary obsession with issues of memory and history, documentaries, smith-sites of war attract people with history interest allowed them to look around area
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evaluation= offensive para 1
trivialisation, shahak shapira holocaust, kortsanje and ivanov cultural entertainment, bauman-continual victimhood, stephen lawrence, bbc news-trying to get lives together
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evaluation-offensive para2
profit, hayley 2004-obsessed with grief, gift shops, diana goring interview, purpose to make money-inernetly self interested
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evaluation-keeping memories alive
no specific need to encourage mourning, alain de botton, danto 1985-desinged to signify the visible absence, purpose to encourage reflection, ground zero, remembrance sunday, poppy
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not to commodify or create entertaining feature, symbolise the death of someone, absence (danto), site whereby individuals can show respect, commoficication led to dark tourism
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