Prosthetic memory and film-induced dark tourism in the specific post-conflict context

Abstract

The present postmodernist study explores how widely accessible films depicting tragic historical sites/events influence prosthetic memories and film-induced dark tourism among Western Balkan (the ‘region of memory’) young adult new-age platform users with no personal war experience. A heterogeneous list of ten internation - ally known historical films, compiled with the help of informants, was the basis for discussion in three nationally diverse focus groups (Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian- Herzegovinian) and then compared with a comparison group from a less stressed environment. The results of the content analysis with triangulation are discussed, and explaining the missing prosthetic memory, factual knowledge and film-induced dark tourism nexus among young adults in a peculiarly toxic post-conflict atmosphere. The study thus identifies historical film and dark tourism abstainers and explains deviations not pre - viously reported in studies of the above concepts, taking into account the specific social environment and age group.Predmet postmodernistične študije je identifikacije vpliva široko dostopnih filmov, ki prikazujejo tragične zgodovinske kraje/dogodke, na protetični spomin in temačni turizem med mladimi odraslimi uporabniki pretočnih platform z Zahodnega Balkana (»regija spomina«). Heterogen seznam desetih mednarodno poznanih zgodovinskih filmov je bil sestavljen s pomočjo informatorjev. To je bila je osnova za razpravo v treh nacionalno raznolikih fokusnih skupinah (hrvaški, srbski, bosansko-hercegovski) in nato primerjan s primerjalno skupino iz manj stresnega okolja. Obravnavani so rezultati analize vsebine s triangulacijo, ki pojasnjujejo zanemarljivo povezavo protetičnega spomina, dejanskega znanja s filmskega temačnega turizma med mladimi odraslimi v posebej toksični post-konfliktni atmosferi. Študija tako identificira mlade, ki ne gledajo zgodovinskih filmov in niso aktivni udeleženci temnega turizma. O tem prej ni bilo poročano v študijah zgornjih konceptov, ob upoštevanju specifičnega družbenega okolja in starostne skupine

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