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Thanatourism : Case Studies in Travel to the Dark Side.
Thanatourism is an important new overview of the growing field. It introduces more rigorous scholarship, new philosophical perspectives and a wealth of empirical material on the contemporary and historical consumption of death with case studies designed to stretch and challenge current discourse.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Goodfellow Publishers Ltd,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch 1 Blogging the Dark Side of Travel: Consuming the Siege of Sarajevo (Tony Johnston) Ch 2 Urban Exploration: Attraction of decay and abandonment or a first step in tourism development? (Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 3 Site Management and Consuming Death: The attraction of death, disaster and the macabre (Peter Wiltshier) Ch 4 Goth Tourism: Sun, sea, sex and dark leisure? Insights into the tourist identity of the Gothic culture (Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 5 Deborah: Having a personal connection to what has been variously described as dark tourism, thanatourism, death tourism and macabre tourism (Tim Heap) Ch 6 Museums of Genocide: The tensions between authenticity and the original article (Geoff Shirt) Ch 7 'Don't fear the reaper': The value of understanding mortality in adventure tourism (Duncan Marson) Ch 8 Life after the Black Death: How dark tourism sheds light on history
- a case study of Eyam's success in creating a future from the past (John Philips) Ch 9 'Welcome to the Home of Auschwitz Tours': The online marketing of genocide tourism (Tony Johnston, Francisco Tigre-Moura, Pascal Mandelartz) Ch 10 'Which part of this is on the exam?' Journeys into darkness with school groups (John Heap) Conclusion (Pascal Mandelartz & Tony Johnston) Index.