It has become increasingly apparent that so-called “Dark Tourism” has been on the rise, socially and culturally, for the past few years. Hundreds of thousands of “tourists” are travelling across the planet to visit sites of either political terror or of memorable battles, always associated with human suffering. For a while now, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp-museum has been the destination for more than a million visitors per year; however, Goree Island in Senegal, the Port-Arthur penal colony in Tasmania or the Holocaust Museum in Washington continue, mutatis mutandis, to attract similarly high numbers. From Asia to South Africa via Rwanda, from Poland to Buenos-Aires or Nanking, there is a plethora of such sites. Does this phenomenon reflect the exotic allure of the past, one to which the memorial scenography produces an illusion of proximity? Does the word “tourism” reduce the complexity of the numerous motivations and practices of groups or individuals who visit memorial and historical sites?
ACTUALITÉS (S. 6–20)
ENTRETIENS
Bernard BlochLe théâtre comme désir de mémoires (S. 22–25)
Catherine GousseffPenser les confins. Une histoire et une mémoire en mouvement (S. 26–32)
PORTFOLIO
Catherine Laubier & Yves BrochardWas bleibt ? (S. 35–41)
DOSSIERTourisme mémoriel : la face sombre de la terre?
Annette Becker & Charles ForsdickPrésentation (S. 43–45)
Wendy Asquith & Charles Forsdick« Dark Tourism »: The Emergence of a Field (S. 46–54)
Stéphane MichonneauBelchite ou l’impossible dark tourism de la guerre civile espagnole (S. 55–62)
Wendy Asquith & Charles ForsdickThe Intersectionality of Dark Heritage: Overlapping Histories of Enslavement and Incarceration (S. 63–71)
Annaïg LefeuvreIn situ, c’est-à-dire en face : le camp de Drancy (S. 72–79)
Matthew BoswellReading Genocide Memorial Sites in Rwanda: Eurocentrism, Sensory Secondary Witnessing and Shame (S. 80–87)
Valérie Rosoux« Du désespoir à l’optimisme. » Comment faire du clair avec de l’obscur ? (S. 88–94)
Delphine BechtelFilmer le retour sur les lieux de la Shoah (S. 95–101)
VARIA
Rémy BessonArticuler histoire du regard et travail en archives : le cas de En Sursis (S. 102–107)
Anne Garrait-BourrierMemory and the Destruction of Family Links. About Caryl Phillips’ Crossing the River (S. 108–113)
Laurent SternLe don de lacets. Perte et reconquête de la dignité humaine (S. 114–119)
IN PROGRESS
Ariane Bazan, Olivier Klein, Olivier Luminet, Valérie Rosoux & Laurence van YperseleBelgique – België. Croisement de langues, d’histoires & de mémoires (1) (S. 120–129)
DES SITES & DES LIEUX
Luba JurgensonUne langue stellaire pour commémorer la Shoah à Sceaux (S. 130–133)
COMPTES RENDUS (S. 134–146)