The darker side of travel : the theory and practice of dark tourism / edited by Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Sharpley, Richard, 1956- (Editor), Stone, Philip R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Channel View Publications, [2009]
Series:Aspects of tourism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Shedding light on dark tourism / Richard Sharpley
  • Making absent death present : consuming dark tourism in contemporary society / Philip R. Stone
  • Dark tourism : mediating between the dead and the living / Tony Walter
  • Dark tourism : morality and new moral spaces / Philip R. Stone
  • Purposeful otherness : approaches to the management of thanatourism / Tony Seaton
  • (Re)presenting the macabre : interpretation, kitschification and authenticity / Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone
  • Contested national tragedies : an ethical dimension / Craig Wight
  • Dark tourism and political ideology : towards a governance model / Richard Sharpley
  • "It's a bloody guide" : fun, fear and a lighter side of dark tourism at The Dungeon visitor attractions, UK / Philip R. Stone
  • Battlefield tourism : bringing the organised violence back to life / Frank Baldwin and Richard Sharpley
  • "Genocide tourism" / John Beech
  • Museums, memorials and plantation houses in the Black Atlantic : slavery and the development of dark tourism / Alan Rice
  • Life, death and dark tourism : future research directions and concluding comments / Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone.