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Developing a model to explain modifications to public transportation accident memorials

Hood, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7477-3944 2020. Developing a model to explain modifications to public transportation accident memorials. Mortality 25 (4) , pp. 449-469. 10.1080/13576275.2019.1702009

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Abstract

With the notable exception of modifications to memorials related to the Titanic, public transportation accidents have remained largely ignored by the academic community. This article fills a gap in the literature by developing a model to explain modifications which occur many years after the event. Such modifications, beyond the financial means of most individual families, are unexpected given that the lack of need to reinterpret the event, as often occurs with modifications to memorials which may have a wider social significance. The article develops a model using existing literature on transportation accident memorials, memory studies and death studies, pointing to the need for three factors: local approval, co-ordination (of both people and funds), and a trigger. In relation to the trigger, the model finds that this relates to the continuation of the bereavement process as well as potentially issues relating to ‘dark tourism’. Having developed the model, it is tested against the case study of a modification made to a memorial for the world’s largest single-plane crash, JAL flight JL123. The article finds, in addition to the model working for this case, there is a need for bereavement theory to be better used within studies on memorialisation.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Modern Languages
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN: 1357-6275
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 22 November 2019
Date of Acceptance: 20 November 2019
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2023 03:29
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/127034

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