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Critical Theories in Dark Tourism : Issues, Complexities and Future Directions / ed. by Nitasha Sharma, Annaclaudia Martini, Dallen J. Timothy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: De Gruyter Studies in Tourism ; 12Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2025Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 299 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110792034
  • 9783110792102
  • 9783110792072
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Dark tourism: The need for a critical approach -- Part I: Dark tourism, affect and emotions -- 2 Atmospheric instability in dark tourism: Spatial construction of conflicting affective atmospheres at the Titanic Museum & Attraction, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (USA) -- 3 Understanding the emotions of visitors to Chernobyl -- Part II: Dark tourism and critical animal studies -- 4 Animals as dark tourism attractions: A prototype -- 5 Meet, greet and eat: Farmed animals as dark tourism attractions -- Part III: Dark tourism and critical memory studies -- 6 Trading paradise for Palestine: Dark tourism to refugee camps in the West Bank -- 7 The scope of dark tourism-scapes: Exclusion zones and their creative boundedness from Chornobyl to Montserrat -- 8 Exploring the intersections between dark tourism and Arctic traumascapes in the Anthropocene: The case of Finnish Lapland -- 9 “Despicable and disgusting”: Emotional labor, and the fear of dark tourism -- 10 Welcome to Revachol: Disco Elysium as virtual dark tourism -- Part IV: Dark tourism, power and identity -- 11 Sites of (dark) consciences: Investigating dark tourism cosmologies in a postcolonial landscape -- 12 Towards a postcolonial museum? Experiencing legacies of colonialism in dark tourism museum exhibits -- 13 Exhibiting power: Dark tourism and crime in the police museum -- 14 Representations in UK witches tours: Walking over the roots of misogyny -- 15 Critical theories in dark tourism: Over the years and beyond -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Index
Summary: This book facilitates a critical investigation of gaps in theorizing and framing dark tourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements, future possibilities, and the application of critical theoretical perspectives related to affect and emotions, human-animal studies, postcolonialism, feminism, trauma studies, posthumanism, power and identity. In doing so, it advances the need to connect critical theory, pragmatism and contemporary issues of social and global relevance. "Given the growing body of critical research within tourism studies, dark tourism has somewhat lagged behind. For example, critical tourism researchers have been examining postcolonialism for two decades, but dark tourism research has only sporadically engaged with this topic. Similarly, the issue of gender has been curiously neglected within dark tourism. In addition, dark tourism research has tended to shy away from the ‘big’ challenges facing contemporary societies. Through its engagement with a range of critical theories, this volume not only addresses gaps in the existing dark tourism literature but also moves the debate forward in exciting new directions. This volume is well-placed to demonstrate to other disciplines and fields that dark tourism research can be critical, theoretically grounded, and transformative." – Duncan Light
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Dark tourism: The need for a critical approach -- Part I: Dark tourism, affect and emotions -- 2 Atmospheric instability in dark tourism: Spatial construction of conflicting affective atmospheres at the Titanic Museum & Attraction, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (USA) -- 3 Understanding the emotions of visitors to Chernobyl -- Part II: Dark tourism and critical animal studies -- 4 Animals as dark tourism attractions: A prototype -- 5 Meet, greet and eat: Farmed animals as dark tourism attractions -- Part III: Dark tourism and critical memory studies -- 6 Trading paradise for Palestine: Dark tourism to refugee camps in the West Bank -- 7 The scope of dark tourism-scapes: Exclusion zones and their creative boundedness from Chornobyl to Montserrat -- 8 Exploring the intersections between dark tourism and Arctic traumascapes in the Anthropocene: The case of Finnish Lapland -- 9 “Despicable and disgusting”: Emotional labor, and the fear of dark tourism -- 10 Welcome to Revachol: Disco Elysium as virtual dark tourism -- Part IV: Dark tourism, power and identity -- 11 Sites of (dark) consciences: Investigating dark tourism cosmologies in a postcolonial landscape -- 12 Towards a postcolonial museum? Experiencing legacies of colonialism in dark tourism museum exhibits -- 13 Exhibiting power: Dark tourism and crime in the police museum -- 14 Representations in UK witches tours: Walking over the roots of misogyny -- 15 Critical theories in dark tourism: Over the years and beyond -- List of contributors -- List of figures -- Index

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This book facilitates a critical investigation of gaps in theorizing and framing dark tourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements, future possibilities, and the application of critical theoretical perspectives related to affect and emotions, human-animal studies, postcolonialism, feminism, trauma studies, posthumanism, power and identity. In doing so, it advances the need to connect critical theory, pragmatism and contemporary issues of social and global relevance. "Given the growing body of critical research within tourism studies, dark tourism has somewhat lagged behind. For example, critical tourism researchers have been examining postcolonialism for two decades, but dark tourism research has only sporadically engaged with this topic. Similarly, the issue of gender has been curiously neglected within dark tourism. In addition, dark tourism research has tended to shy away from the ‘big’ challenges facing contemporary societies. Through its engagement with a range of critical theories, this volume not only addresses gaps in the existing dark tourism literature but also moves the debate forward in exciting new directions. This volume is well-placed to demonstrate to other disciplines and fields that dark tourism research can be critical, theoretically grounded, and transformative." – Duncan Light

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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