Dark Tourism (eBook, ePUB)

Practice and interpretation
Redaktion: Hooper, Glenn; Lennon, John J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317154747
• Artikelnr.: 45474455

Autorenporträt

Glenn Hooper is a Lecturer in Tourism and Heritage at Glasgow Caledonian University, and has held academic appointments at St. Mary's University College Belfast, the University of Aberdeen and the Open University. He has published widely in travel and tourism, and is the co-founder of the international 'Borders & Crossings' Conference Series. His publications include Land and Landscape, 1770-2000, Irish and Postcolonial Writing (with Colin Graham) and Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760-1860. John J. Lennon is the Vice Dean for the Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University and Director of the Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development. John has undertaken over 550 tourism and travel projects, in over 40 nations, on behalf of private sector and public sector clients. John is the co-author of Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster and a range of publications relating to the subject based on international research in the area.

Inhaltsangabe

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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