Chernobyl and the Sublime Tourist

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ID5825751
AuthorsJ Goatcher (0000-0002-3386-2980, Nottingham Trent University, corresponding author), Brunsden (corresponding author), Viv Brunsden (Nottingham Trent University)
Year2011
Volume11
Issue2
Pages115-137
Publication date2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTourist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1468797611424956
OpenAlexW2158603285
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited42

The Chernobyl disaster has left a number of enduring effects. Aside from the contested numbers of fatalities attributable to the disaster, it has also left a number of physical symbols, and a cultural anxiety about technology and nuclear power in particular. This paper looks at a number of photographs from the Pripyat.com website that appear to share a visual grammar with 'tourist snap-shots'. An iconological analysis of these images, which attempts to reconstruct the motivations behind such creative representation suggests that they can be read as attempts to capture a sense of 'unrepresentable' anxiety created by what has been called a 'disenfranchisement of the senses'. This can be seen as an instance of the post-modern sublime, an enduring status of anxiety

Advertising · Aesthetics · Anxiety · Archaeology · Art · Aside · Business · Dark tourism · Literature · Political science · Power (physics · Representation · Representation (politics · Sociology · Sublime · Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · History · Law

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