Dark Tourism and Place Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Managing and interpreting dark places
Redaktion: White, Leanne; Frew, Elspeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book is the first to explore the physical and intangible legacies of historic and contemporary dark tourism sites, and the contribution such sites make to place identity. It achieves this by critically reviewing the marketing, management and interpretation of contemporary and historic sites associated with death, disaster, atrocity and related events from a wide range of geographical locations. In doing so the book proposes a compose model for discussing place identity and dark tourism which will provide further understanding about these increasingly popular destinations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136483127
• Artikelnr.: 38274703

Autorenporträt

Leanne White is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing in the College of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. Elspeth Frew is an Associate Professor in Tourism Management in the Department of Marketing, Tourism and Hospitality at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Exploring Dark Tourism and Place Identity Part 1: Visitor
Motivation 2. The Père-Lachaise Cemetery: Between Dark Tourism and
Heterotopic Consumption 3. African Americans at Sites of Darkness:
Roots-Seeking, Diasporic Identities and Place Making 4. Place Identity or
Place Identities: The Memorial to the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre,
China 5. The Contribution of Dark Tourism to Place Identity in Northern
Ireland 6. Dark Tourism, Heterotopias and Post-Apocalyptic Places: The Case
of Chernobyl Part 2: Destination Management 7. Pagan Tourism and the
Management of Ancient Sites in Cornwall 8. Soviet Tourism in the Baltic
States: Remembrance Versus Nostalgia - Just Different Shades of Dark? 9.
Turning the Negative Around: The Case of Taupo, New Zealand 10.
Commemorating and Commodifying the Rwandan Genocide: Memorial Sites in a
Politically Difficult Context 11. Dark Tourism and Place Identity in French
Guiana 12. Place Identities in the Normandy Landscape of War: Touring the
Canadian Sites of Memory Part 3: Place Interpretation 13. Holocaust Tourism
in a Post-Holocaust Europe: Anne Frank and Auschwitz 14. Dark Detours:
Celebrity Car Crash Deaths and Trajectories of Place 15. Marvellous,
Murderous and Macabre Melbourne: Taking a Walk on the Dark Side 16. War and
Ideological Conflict: Prisoner of War Camps as a Tourist Experience in
South Korea 17. Dark Tourism in the Top End: Commemorating the Bombing of
Darwin 18. Darkness Beyond Memory: The Battlefields at Culloden and Little
Bighorn 19. Beyond the Dark Side: Research Directions for Dark Tourism