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The Darker Side of Travel

The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism

By: Philip R. Stone (Editor), Richard Sharpley (Editor)

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Paperback | 25 August 2009

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Over the last decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile whilst, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to establish a more informed relationship between the theory and practice of dark tourism. This book meets the undoubted need for such a volume by providing a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism.

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In this perspective-broadening text, Sharpley and Stone (and their fellow observers of the prominence of sites of death and disaster) shine informed light on the rich but undersuspected connectivities of tourism. The dark and unquenchable business of thanatourism is colourfully and critically painted in arrestive shades of cultural, political, and public significance.

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Contributors	p. vii
Dark Tourism: Theories and Concepts
Shedding Light on Dark Tourism: An Introduction	p. 3
Making Absent Death Present: Consuming Dark Tourism in Contemporary Society	p. 23
Dark Tourism: Mediating Between the Dead and the Living	p. 39
Dark Tourism: Morality and New Moral Spaces	p. 56
Dark Tourism: Management Implications
Purposeful Otherness: Approaches to the Management of Thanatourism	p. 75
(Re)presenting the Macabre: Interpretation, Kitschification and Authenticity	p. 109
Contested National Tragedies: An Ethical Dimension	p. 129
Dark Tourism and Political Ideology: Towards a Governance Model	p. 145
Dark Tourism in Practice
'It's a Bloody GuideÆ: Fun, Fear and a Lighter Side of Dark Tourism at The Dungeon Visitor Attractions, UK	p. 167
Battlefield Tourism: Bringing Organised Violence Back to Life	p. 186
'Genocide TourismÆ	p. 207
Museums, Memorials and Plantation Houses in the Black Atlantic: Slavery and the Development of Dark Tourism	p. 224
Life, Death and Dark Tourism: Future Research Directions and Concluding Comments	p. 247
References	p. 252
Index	p. 274
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