Bombs without bombsites: memory and security without visibility
Bombs without bombsites: memory and security without visibility
This chapter explores the relationship between visibility, memorialisation and security through case studies of the London bombing, the invasion of Afghanistan by coalition troops, and the situation of post-terrorist memorials in tourism economies. It analyses how some invisible (underground) bombsites are made visible during memorialisation to expunge their morbid resonance, whereas other invisible deaths (those of Afghanis) remain inconspicuous given their situation in political structures of grievability. Finally, the chapter explores the integration of post-terrorist memorials into tourist agendas and the function of the tourist gaze as a signifying tool which can reconstitute formerly traumatic sites.
Keywords: Memorialisation, London Bombing, Grievability, Terrorism, Tourist Gaze, Tourism, Afghanistan, Death, Security
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