The Heritage of Loss, the Loss of Heritage, and Dark Tourism
Presentation Location
David Student Union: Jefferson Room
Document Type
Event
Start Date
16-3-2024 8:30 AM
End Date
16-3-2024 10:30 AM
Description
(Abby Wightman, Session Chair)
Negative heritage and associated dark tourism are not new phenomena. In recent years, however, climate change has exacerbated the loss of cultural heritage sites, each disappearance representing the potential erasure of a community and its history. In this panel, we consider the intersection of climate change, the loss of cultural heritage, and the rising fascination with heritage loss. Individually, panelists will consider the ways that climate change impacts cultural 18 heritage sites in a variety of settings and locations, community responses to the threat of heritage loss, and the challenges of preserving complex and often negative heritage amid increased dark tourism of these spaces. Collectively, we will discuss the ways that scholars can encourage a public ethics around heritage sites and heritage loss.
- Abby Wightman (Mary Baldwin University)
- Katrina Powell (Virginia Tech) - Environmental Justice and Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia.
- Carole Nash (James Madison University) - Beyond the Mountains, the Sun: The Continuing Myth of the Empty Uplands
- Heather Wholey (West Chester University) - The Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962
- Alison Bell (Washington and Lee University) - Climate Precarity, Social Capital, and Archaeological Collections
- Audrey Horning (The College of William & Mary) - Reflections on Ruins, Research, and Loss in the Virginia Blue Ridge
- Kevin Morgan (Filmmaker) - Green to Gold: A Shenandoah National Park Documentary (includes clip of documentary)
Recommended Citation
Powell, Katrina; Nash, Carole; Horning, Audrey; Wholey, Heather; Bell, Allison; and Morgan, Kevin, "The Heritage of Loss, the Loss of Heritage, and Dark Tourism" (2024). Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society. 20.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southernanthro_meeting/2024/schedule/20
The Heritage of Loss, the Loss of Heritage, and Dark Tourism
David Student Union: Jefferson Room
(Abby Wightman, Session Chair)
Negative heritage and associated dark tourism are not new phenomena. In recent years, however, climate change has exacerbated the loss of cultural heritage sites, each disappearance representing the potential erasure of a community and its history. In this panel, we consider the intersection of climate change, the loss of cultural heritage, and the rising fascination with heritage loss. Individually, panelists will consider the ways that climate change impacts cultural 18 heritage sites in a variety of settings and locations, community responses to the threat of heritage loss, and the challenges of preserving complex and often negative heritage amid increased dark tourism of these spaces. Collectively, we will discuss the ways that scholars can encourage a public ethics around heritage sites and heritage loss.
- Abby Wightman (Mary Baldwin University)
- Katrina Powell (Virginia Tech) - Environmental Justice and Monuments Across Appalachian Virginia.
- Carole Nash (James Madison University) - Beyond the Mountains, the Sun: The Continuing Myth of the Empty Uplands
- Heather Wholey (West Chester University) - The Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962
- Alison Bell (Washington and Lee University) - Climate Precarity, Social Capital, and Archaeological Collections
- Audrey Horning (The College of William & Mary) - Reflections on Ruins, Research, and Loss in the Virginia Blue Ridge
- Kevin Morgan (Filmmaker) - Green to Gold: A Shenandoah National Park Documentary (includes clip of documentary)