The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

Rudi Hartmann

ISBN 10: 113747565X / ISBN 13: 9781137475657

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018

Beschreibung

Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - Ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, mit leichten Lagerspuren - This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of 'dark tourism', 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 'difficult heritage' processes and practices. Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines 'real-world' viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of 'heritage that hurts'. 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 'dark tourist' 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers INF1000548171

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 113747565X
• ISBN-13: 9781137475657
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zustand: Sehr gut
• Abmessungen: 241B x 160 H x 48 T Millimeter Breite: 241 mm, Höhe: 160 mm, Tiefe: 48 mm
• Gewicht: 1361 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

 This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, 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 ‘difficult heritage’ processes and practices.

Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines ‘real-world’ viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of ‘heritage that hurts’. 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 ‘dark tourist’ experience, and the business of dark tourism. 

The PalgraveHandbook 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.   

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip R. Stone is Executive Director, Institute for Dark Tourism Research, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Rudi Hartmann is Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver, USA.

Tony Seaton is MacAnally Professor of Tourism Behaviour and Travel History, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland and Emeritus Professor of Tourism Behaviour, University of Bedfordshire, UK.

Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism & Development, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Leanne White is Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Victoria University, Australia.