Writing the dark side of travel /

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skinner, Jonathan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Temas:
Travel > Psychological aspects.
Tourism > Psychological aspects.
Tourism > Social aspects.
Social problems.
Voyage > Aspect psychologique.
Problèmes sociaux.
social issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Social problems
Tourism > Psychological aspects
Tourism > Social aspects
Travel > Psychological aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between trauma and healing : tourism and neoliberal peace building in divided societies / John Nagle
  • Sebald's ghosts : traveling among the dead in The rings of Saturn / Simon Cooke
  • Graphic wounds : the comics journalism of Joe Sacco / Tristram Walker
  • Visiting Rwanda : accounts of genocide in travel writing / Rachel Moffat
  • Walking back to happiness? : modern pilgrimage and the expression of suffering on Spain's Camino de Santiago / Keith Egan
  • Shades of darkness : silence, risk, and fear among tourists and Nepalis during Nepal's civil war / Sharon Hepburn
  • Beyond frames : the creation of a dance company in healthcare through the journey of brain trauma / Jenny Elliott
  • The house on the hill : an analysis of Australia's Stolen Generations' journey into healing through the site of trauma / Fiona Murphy
  • Exploring landscapes after battle : tourists at home on the old front lines / Jennifer Iles.

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