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Dark Tourism and Crime (Hardcover, New)
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Dark Tourism and Crime (Hardcover, New)
Series: Advances in Tourism
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This book offers a unique insight into a type of tourism that is
becoming increasingly popular in the contemporary world dark
tourism. This type of tourism chiefly concerns tourism that occurs
in places where death and suffering have taken place on a grand
scale. Whereas all books devoted to dark tourism include places
where natural or man-made disasters have occurred (e.g. Pompeii,
medieval plague sites, ocean liner sinking), this book will
specifically engage with dark tourism sites associated with crime
(e.g. mass murder, genocide, State sanctioned torture and
violence).
Dark Tourism and Crime explores the socio-cultural contours of this
unique type of tourism and explains why spaces/places where crime
has occurred fascinate and attract tourists. The book is marked by
an ethics of respect for the suffering a place has experienced and
an imperative to learn something tangible about the history and
legacy of that suffering. Based on empirical ethnographic research
it takes the reader from the remnants of Auschwitz concentration
camp to the tranquil Australian island of Tasmania to explore
precisely what things a dark tourist might encounter (architecture,
art installations, gardens, memorials, physical traces of crime)
and how these things invoke and evoke past crimes.
This volume furthers understanding of dark tourism and will be of
interest to students, researchers and academics of criminology,
tourism and cultural studies.
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