Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 275 pages)
ISBN:
9781845411169
,
9781845411152
,
9781845411145
Series Statement:
Aspects of Tourism v.41
Content:
This book is a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism. Drawing on existing literature, numerous examples and introducing new conceptual perspectives, it develops a theoretically informed foundation for examining the demand for and supply of dark tourism experiences.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part 1 Dark Tourism: Theories and Concepts -- Chapter 1 Shedding Light on Dark Tourism: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Making Absent Death Present: Consuming Dark Tourism in Contemporary Society -- Chapter 3 Dark Tourism: Mediating Between the Dead and the Living -- Chapter 4 Dark Tourism: Morality and New Moral Spaces -- Part 2 Dark Tourism: Management Implications -- Chapter 5 Purposeful Otherness: Approaches to the Management of Thanatourism -- Chapter 6 (Re)presenting the Macabre: Interpretation, Kitschification and Authenticity -- Chapter 7 Contested National Tragedies: An Ethical Dimension -- Chapter 8 Dark Tourism and Political Ideology: Towards a Governance Model -- Part 3 Dark Tourism in Practice -- Chapter 9 'It's a Bloody Guide': Fun, Fear and a Lighter Side of Dark Tourism at The Dungeon Visitor Attractions, UK -- Chapter 10 Battlefield Tourism: Bringing Organised Violence Back to Life -- Chapter 11 'Genocide Tourism' -- Chapter 12 Museums, Memorials and Plantation Houses in the Black Atlantic: Slavery and the Development of Dark Tourism -- Chapter 13 Life, Death and Dark Tourism: Future Research Directions and Concluding Comments -- References -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845411145
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The darker side of travel Bristol [u.a.] : Channel View Publ., 2009 ISBN 9781845411145
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845411152
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845411153
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845411145
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845411169
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845411161
Additional Edition:
Print version The Darker Side of Travel The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Online-Ressource
