The Palgrave handbook of dark tourism studies. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of dark tourism studies; Dark tourism studies
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip R. Stone, Rudi Hartmann, Tony Seaton, Richard Sharpley, Leanne White.
• Editors: Stone, Philip R; Hartmann, Rudi; Seaton, A. V; Sharpley, Richard, 1956-; White, Leanne
• Contents: Section 1: Dark Tourism History.1.Encountering Engineered and Orchestrated Remembrance: A Situational Model of Dark Tourism and its History.2. Crime, Punishment and Dark Tourism: The Carnivalesque Spectacles of the English Judicial System.3. Death and the Tourist: Dark Encounters in Mid-Nineteenth Century London via the Paris Morgue.4. The British Traveller and Dark Tourism in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia and the Nordic Regions.5. 'The Smoke of an Eruption, and the Dust of an Earthquake': Dark Tourism, the Sublime and the Re-Animation of the Disaster Location.-Section 2: Dark Tourism: Philosophy and Theory.6. Thanatourism – A Comparative Approach.7. Dark Tourism in an Increasingly Violent World.8. Dark Tourism in an Age of the 'Spectacular Death'.9.Dionysus Versus Apollo: An Uncertain Search for Identity through Dark Tourism – Palestine as a Case Study.10. Dark Tourism as Psychogeography: An Initial Exploration.Section 3: Dark Tourism in Society and Culture.11. Dark Tourism, Dissonant Heritage & Memorialisation: The Case of the Rwandan Genocide.12. 'Pablo Escobar Tourism' – Unwanted Tourism: Attitudes of Tourism Stakeholders in Medellin, Colombia.13. Tourism Mobilities, Spectralities and the Hauntings of Chernobyl.14. Disasters and Disaster tourism: The Role of the Media.15. Denial of the Darkness, Identity and Nation-Building in Small Islands: A Case Study from the Channel Islands.Section 4: Dark Tourism and Heritage Lanscapes.16. Sites of Suffering, Tourism and the Heritage of Darkness: Illustrations from the United States of America.17. From Celebratory Landscapes to Dark Tourism Sites?: Exploring the Design of Southern Plantation Museums.18. Dark Tourism to Seismic Memorial Sites.19. First World War Battlefield Tourism: Journeys out of the Dark and into the Light.20. Tourism to Memorial Sites of the Holocaust: Changing Memorial Landscapes, Changing Approaches to the Study of the Sites Associated with the Victims and Perpetrators in Nazi Germany.-Section 5: The 'Dark Tourist' Experience.21. Unravelling Fear of Death Motives in Dark Tourism.22. Politics of Dark Tourism: The Case of Cromañon and ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.23. 'I Know the Plane Crashed': Children's Perspectives in Dark Tourism.24. Dark Tourism Visualisation: Some Reflections on the Role of Photography.25. Educating the (Dark) Masses: Dark Tourism and Sensemaking.Section 6: The Business of Dark Tourism.26. Marketing Dark Heritage: Building Brands, Myth-Making and Social Marketing.27. Death as a Commodity: The Retailing of Dark Tourism.28. Exhibiting Death and Disaster: Museological Perspectives.29. Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and symbols.30. Shining a Digital Light on the Dark: Harnessing Online Media to Improve the Dark Tourism Experience.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 338.4791; Dark tourism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137475664
• Related ISBNs: 9781137475657
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