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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Dark tourism"”.
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Absent Others: dark tourism, theatricality, and ethical spectatorship
… The sites I consider are examples of 'dark tourism,' destinations that depict death and disaster. I explore how theatricality arises in response to the key challenge that underlies these places, which is how to make past suffering available to the spectator at the same time as …
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The Commodification of Dark Tourism: Conceptualising the Visitor Experience
The study of ‘dark tourism’ has gained increasing traction over the past two decades or so. Visits to sites of, or associated with death, disaster, atrocity, or suffering are a pervasive feature within the contemporary tourism landscape. This thesis, therefore, critically examines dark tourism …
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Residents’ Perceptions of Dark Tourism Development: The Case of L’Aquila, Italy
Over the last two decades, the concept of dark tourism has attracted ever-increasing attention in both academic and media circles. At the same time, not only has there been an apparent growth in the supply of ‘dark’ tourism sites and attractions, but also such demand for dark tourism experiences is …
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Tourists’ Immersive Experiences at Dark Tourism Destinations: The Role of the Spiritualist Medium
While immersive experience and dark tourism are established fields, little research has examined how spiritualist mediums shape belief-led, emotionally resonant encounters at historically charged sites. This thesis addresses that gap by investigating how mediums influence emotional engagement, …
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Death, Dying and Dark Tourism in Contemporary Society: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… increasing academic and media attention paid to dark tourism – the act of travel to sites of death, disaster and the seemingly macabre – understanding of the concept remains limited, particularly from a consumption perspective. That is, the literature focuses primarily on the supply of dark …
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An investigation into crime tourism, screen tourism and dark fandoms
Screen tourism, dark tourism and dark fandom are three growing fields of scholarship that have predominantly been explored in isolation. This study aims to extend knowledge in each of these areas and is the first to explore these interrelationships comprehensively. It employs a distinct …
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Radioactive heritage: an autoethnographic investigation of Chernobyl as a dark heritage site
… new meaning to Chernobyl as more than just a dark tourism site. In visiting and learning more about Chernobyl, tourists will not only renew their awareness of nuclear disasters but will be inspired by Chernobyl’s heroes, nature’s resurgence and the transformative power of dark tourism sites.
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Tracking Discourses of Occupation and Genocide in Lithuanian Museums and Sites of Memory
Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific methodologies to …
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Hierarchy and Responsibility in Media: Cults, Culpability, and Culture
… about the fine lines dividing cult and culture, dark tourism and the role of spectatorship, and tensions between socially sanctioned religion and cults.</p>
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Heritage Interpretation of the Dead as a Tool for Peace and Reconciliation: the Case of Visitor Development at Rwanda's Post-Conflict Memorialscape
… arrival and increase of local and international tourism to the national genocide memorials. Focusing on a less Western-centric approach towards memory, peace, heritage and (dark) tourism theory this study seeks to establish how the production and consumption of Rwanda’s memorialscape is …
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The Lagermuseum Creative Manuscript and ‘Encountering Auschwitz: Touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’
… implications and ramifications of Holocaust tourism. My thesis, however, aims to address an apparent gap within this still-evolving field of research. Thus I examine not visitor motivations for going to such sites, but the types of historical encounters available to those who seek them. …
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“Mad King Ludwig”, « Père Rhin » und “Foresta Nera”. Das Deutschlandbild in englisch-, französisch- und italienischsprachigen Reiseführern
… ist ein deutlicher Hinweis auf die Existenz von Dark Tourism. Außerdem zeichnen die Reiseführer ein klares Bild des deutschen Paradoxons: umfangreicher Umweltschutz bei gleichzeitigem Fehlen eines allgemeinen Tempolimits.
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Danger-zone tourism: Emotional performances in Jordan and Palestine
This thesis discusses danger-zone tourism in Jordan and Palestine. It explores emotional performances in tourist places of ongoing socio-political conflict. I bring together dark tourism, emotional, affectual and sensuous geographies as well as psychoanalytic theories on the death drive to examine …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
… of a mass Holocaust and Jewish heritage tourism industry. It thus presents a central and a critical context to examine postmemorial reckonings with the Holocaust in and as memory. This PhD takes the particular context of Kraków as its empirical focus. Once the capital of Poland, with a …
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"""Empty chairs, broken lives"": The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum"
"This dissertation offers a description of the memorial and museum of the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum; provides a critical analysis of the memorial process used to generate the institution; and, finally, documents a historical context that situates the bombing and the subsequent …
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Geographies of confinement : America's carceral bulwark, 1973-2022
This study examines two distinct planes along which prisons have become naturalized in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, paying special attention to the ways in which the carceral institution has been used to generate capital value. Focusing on museums …