Beschreibung:
This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of the subject from the point of view of both practice - how Dark Tourism is performed, what practical and physical considerations exist on site - and interpretation - how Dark Tourism is understood, including issues pertaining to ethics, community involvement and motivation.
Introduction1. Is All Tourism Dark?2. The Long Shadow: Marketing Dachau3. Prison Tourism: Exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK4. Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires: Appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily5. Death Camp Tourism: Interpretation and Management 6. Guilty Landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the Past: Dedham Vale and the Murder in the Red Barn7. A Culturally Constructed Darkness: Dark Legacies and Dark Heritage in the Channel Islands8. A Light in Dark Places? Analysing the Impact of Dark Tourism Experiences on Everyday Life