This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ædark tourismÆ, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ædifficult heritageÆ processes and practices. Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines æreal-worldÆ viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of æheritage that hurtsÆ. The handbook adopts a progressive and thematic approach, including critical accounts of dark tourism history, dark tourism philosophy and theory, dark tourism in society and culture, dark tourism and heritage landscapes, the ædark touristÆ experience, and the business of dark tourism. The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in aspects of memorialisation and morality in sociology, death studies, history, geography, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, business management, museology and heritage tourism studies, politics, religious studies, and anthropology.
- | Author: Philip R. Stone, Rudi Hartmann, Tony Seaton, Richard Sharpley, Leanne White
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Mar 14, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 803 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Sports & Recreation
- | ISBN-10: 113747565X
- | ISBN-13: 9781137475657
