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Hopeful Visitors and Grieving Guides - Notes from the Travel Notebook of a Dark Tourist

The video works with the perspective of so-called dark tourism, which is explained as visiting places that are associated with tragic events.

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Parts

  1. Matěj Pavlík, Jiří Žák, The Practice of Decolonization
  2. Hopeful Visitors and Grieving Guides - Notes from the Travel Notebook of a Dark Tourist
  3. Decolonizing the Academy by Sindre Bangstad
  4. The Disquieting Beauty of Wind Farms. Voices and Wind
  5. Places from the Travel Notebook of a Dark Tourist (Fosen Wind Complex)
  6. Who Are You, You Who Live Here?
  7. Tracing Decolonial Options in the History of Sami Educational Philosophy by Stine H. Bang Svendsen
  8. Arts, Crafts And Emancipation
  9. The Exploration and Investigation of Decolonization as Community, as Action and as a Part of a Pedagogy of Care by Amanda Fayant
  10. The Four Directions a.k.a The Medicine Wheel by Amanda Fayant
  11. What Happened To You, Norway?
  12. Places from the Travel Notebook of a Dark Tourist (Utøya)
  13. Hear the Voices of All: Perceptions of Decolonization in the Czech Republic
  14. Slyšet hlasy všech: vnímání dekolonizace v České republice (česká verze)
  15. Measuring Gustav Vingeland's sculptures

Hopeful Visitors and Grieving Guides - Notes from the Travel Notebook of a Dark Tourist

One of the outputs of the chapter "The Practice of Decolonization" is our original art video. It reflects to some extent our authorial position. The video works with the perspective of so-called dark tourism, which is explained as visiting places that are associated with tragic events. Through analogue photographs of places such as Utøya Island (the scene of an ultra-right-wing terrorist attack), the Fosen Vind wind farm that is destroying the ecosystem of the winter pastures in Sámi territory, or the controversial sculpture park in the heart of Oslo, the work of alleged Nazi sympathiser Gustav Vigeland, we ask the double-edged ironic question: are dark tourists in these places proof that the tragedy is over? Lastly, the video shows the site of a supposedly far-right think tank called Human Rights Services. This think tank is behind the normalisation of hate speech in public space and the undermining of Norway's migration policy. The name itself is such an unpleasant irony that it shows the current unfavourable state of human rights values.

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