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Dark tourism : practice and interpretation / edited by Glenn Hooper and John Lennon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 738 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781315575865
  • 9781317154730
  • 9781317154747
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 338.479104 D219
LOC classification:
  • G156.5.D37 D37 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Is all tourism dark? / John E. Tunbridge and Gregory J. Ashworth -- 2. The long shadow : marketing Dachau / John Lennon and Dorothy Weber -- 3. Prison tourism : exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK / Sarah Hodgkinson and Diane Urquhart -- 4. Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires : appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily / Tony Seaton -- 5. Death camp tourism : interpretation and management / Gregory J. Ashworth and John E. Tunbridge -- 6. Guilty landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the past : Dedham Vale and the murder in the red barn / Martin Spaul and Chris Wilbert -- 7. A culturally constructed darkness : dark legacies and dark heritage in the Channel Islands / Gilly Carr -- 8. A light in dark places? : analysing the impact of dark tourism experiences on everyday life / Ria Dunkley -- 9. The undead and dark tourism : Dracula tourism in Romania / Duncan Light -- 10. Genocide tourism in Rwanda : contesting the concept of the "dark tourist" / Richard Sharpley and Mona Friedrich -- 11. Everyday darkness and catastrophic events : riding Nepal's buses through peace, war and an earthquake / Sharon Hepburn -- 12. From living memory to social history : commemoration and interpretation of a contemporary dark event / Elspeth Frew -- 13. Experiencing dark heritage live / Britta Timm Knudsen -- 14. Dark tourism in the brightest of cities : Rio de Janeiro and the favela tour / Glenn Hooper.
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1. Is all tourism dark? / John E. Tunbridge and Gregory J. Ashworth -- 2. The long shadow : marketing Dachau / John Lennon and Dorothy Weber -- 3. Prison tourism : exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK / Sarah Hodgkinson and Diane Urquhart -- 4. Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires : appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily / Tony Seaton -- 5. Death camp tourism : interpretation and management / Gregory J. Ashworth and John E. Tunbridge -- 6. Guilty landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the past : Dedham Vale and the murder in the red barn / Martin Spaul and Chris Wilbert -- 7. A culturally constructed darkness : dark legacies and dark heritage in the Channel Islands / Gilly Carr -- 8. A light in dark places? : analysing the impact of dark tourism experiences on everyday life / Ria Dunkley -- 9. The undead and dark tourism : Dracula tourism in Romania / Duncan Light -- 10. Genocide tourism in Rwanda : contesting the concept of the "dark tourist" / Richard Sharpley and Mona Friedrich -- 11. Everyday darkness and catastrophic events : riding Nepal's buses through peace, war and an earthquake / Sharon Hepburn -- 12. From living memory to social history : commemoration and interpretation of a contemporary dark event / Elspeth Frew -- 13. Experiencing dark heritage live / Britta Timm Knudsen -- 14. Dark tourism in the brightest of cities : Rio de Janeiro and the favela tour / Glenn Hooper.

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