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13 Exhibiting power: Dark tourism and crime in the police museum

  • Cecilia de Bernardi , Bailey Ashton Adie und Esther Snell
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Critical Theories in Dark Tourism
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Abstract

This chapter discusses the representations of crime in state-run police museums, which are found around the world with varying foci. As state institutions, these museums function as an expression of official narratives of justice, control, and state-sanctioned morality, all of which come in the guise of edutainment. The approach taken here is a critical stance on ideologies, hegemony, and power. Methodologically, this chapter employs critical discourse analysis to appraise how information is presented within three diverse contexts: the Polismuseet in Stockholm, Sweden; the Police & Justice Museum in Sydney, Australia; and the Police Museum in Hong Kong, China. Through a comparative analysis, this chapter critically engages with the dichotomy inherent in crime as an attraction within the context of state power.

Abstract

This chapter discusses the representations of crime in state-run police museums, which are found around the world with varying foci. As state institutions, these museums function as an expression of official narratives of justice, control, and state-sanctioned morality, all of which come in the guise of edutainment. The approach taken here is a critical stance on ideologies, hegemony, and power. Methodologically, this chapter employs critical discourse analysis to appraise how information is presented within three diverse contexts: the Polismuseet in Stockholm, Sweden; the Police & Justice Museum in Sydney, Australia; and the Police Museum in Hong Kong, China. Through a comparative analysis, this chapter critically engages with the dichotomy inherent in crime as an attraction within the context of state power.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Foreword 1
  5. 1 Dark tourism: The need for a critical approach 5
  6. Part I: Dark tourism, affect and emotions
  7. 2 Atmospheric instability in dark tourism: Spatial construction of conflicting affective atmospheres at the Titanic Museum & Attraction, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (USA) 33
  8. 3 Understanding the emotions of visitors to Chernobyl 53
  9. Part II: Dark tourism and critical animal studies
  10. 4 Animals as dark tourism attractions: A prototype 77
  11. 5 Meet, greet and eat: Farmed animals as dark tourism attractions 89
  12. Part III: Dark tourism and critical memory studies
  13. 6 Trading paradise for Palestine: Dark tourism to refugee camps in the West Bank 109
  14. 7 The scope of dark tourism-scapes: Exclusion zones and their creative boundedness from Chornobyl to Montserrat 129
  15. 8 Exploring the intersections between dark tourism and Arctic traumascapes in the Anthropocene: The case of Finnish Lapland 147
  16. 9 “Despicable and disgusting”: Emotional labor, and the fear of dark tourism 163
  17. 10 Welcome to Revachol: Disco Elysium as virtual dark tourism 181
  18. Part IV: Dark tourism, power and identity
  19. 11 Sites of (dark) consciences: Investigating dark tourism cosmologies in a postcolonial landscape 203
  20. 12 Towards a postcolonial museum? Experiencing legacies of colonialism in dark tourism museum exhibits 219
  21. 13 Exhibiting power: Dark tourism and crime in the police museum 245
  22. 14 Representations in UK witches tours: Walking over the roots of misogyny 261
  23. 15 Critical theories in dark tourism: Over the years and beyond 277
  24. List of contributors 285
  25. List of figures 291
  26. Index 293
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792072-014

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Foreword 1
  5. 1 Dark tourism: The need for a critical approach 5
  6. Part I: Dark tourism, affect and emotions
  7. 2 Atmospheric instability in dark tourism: Spatial construction of conflicting affective atmospheres at the Titanic Museum & Attraction, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (USA) 33
  8. 3 Understanding the emotions of visitors to Chernobyl 53
  9. Part II: Dark tourism and critical animal studies
  10. 4 Animals as dark tourism attractions: A prototype 77
  11. 5 Meet, greet and eat: Farmed animals as dark tourism attractions 89
  12. Part III: Dark tourism and critical memory studies
  13. 6 Trading paradise for Palestine: Dark tourism to refugee camps in the West Bank 109
  14. 7 The scope of dark tourism-scapes: Exclusion zones and their creative boundedness from Chornobyl to Montserrat 129
  15. 8 Exploring the intersections between dark tourism and Arctic traumascapes in the Anthropocene: The case of Finnish Lapland 147
  16. 9 “Despicable and disgusting”: Emotional labor, and the fear of dark tourism 163
  17. 10 Welcome to Revachol: Disco Elysium as virtual dark tourism 181
  18. Part IV: Dark tourism, power and identity
  19. 11 Sites of (dark) consciences: Investigating dark tourism cosmologies in a postcolonial landscape 203
  20. 12 Towards a postcolonial museum? Experiencing legacies of colonialism in dark tourism museum exhibits 219
  21. 13 Exhibiting power: Dark tourism and crime in the police museum 245
  22. 14 Representations in UK witches tours: Walking over the roots of misogyny 261
  23. 15 Critical theories in dark tourism: Over the years and beyond 277
  24. List of contributors 285
  25. List of figures 291
  26. Index 293
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