This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of the subject from the point of view of both practice - how Dark Tourism is performed, what practical and physical considerations exist on site - and interpretation - how Dark Tourism is understood, including issues pertaining to ethics, community involvement and motivation.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1. Is All Tourism Dark?
2. The Long Shadow: Marketing Dachau
3. Prison Tourism: Exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK
4. Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires: Appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily
5. Death Camp Tourism: Interpretation and Management
6. Guilty Landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the Past: Dedham Vale and the Murder in the Red Barn
7. A Culturally Constructed Darkness: Dark Legacies and Dark Heritage in the Channel Islands
8. A Light in Dark Places? Analysing the Impact of Dark Tourism Experiences on Everyday Life
9. The Undead and Dark Tourism: Dracula Tourism in Romania
10. Genocide tourism in Rwanda: contesting the concept of the 'Dark Tourist'
11. Everyday Darkness and Catastrophic Events: Riding Nepal's Buses through Peace, War and an Earthquake
12. From Living Memory to Social History: Commemoration and Interpretation of a Contemporary Dark Event
13. Experiencing dark heritage live
14. Dark Tourism in the Brightest of Cities: Rio de Janeiro and the Favela Tour
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