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Dark Tourism and Crime (Paperback)
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Dark Tourism and Crime (Paperback)
Series: Advances in Tourism
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Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. It has passed into
popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand
descriptor for sites that are associated with death, suffering and
trauma. However, whilst books have been devoted to dark tourism as
a general topic no single text has sought to explore dark tourism
in spaces where crime - mass murder, genocide, State sanctioned
torture and violence - has occurred as an organising theme. 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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