The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-8
 Encountering Engineered and Orchestrated Remembrance: A Situational Model of Dark Tourism and Its History  (Tony Seaton)....Pages 9-31
 Crime, Punishment, and Dark Tourism: The Carnivalesque Spectacles of the English Judicial System  (Tony Seaton, Graham M. S. Dann)....Pages 33-76
 Death and the Tourist: Dark Encounters in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London via the Paris Morgue  (John Edmondson)....Pages 77-101
 The British Traveller and Dark Tourism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia and the Nordic Regions  (Kathryn Walchester)....Pages 103-124
 “The Smoke of an Eruption and the Dust of an Earthquake”: Dark Tourism, the Sublime, and the Re-animation of the Disaster Location  (Jonathan Skinner)....Pages 125-150
Front Matter ....Pages 151-155
 Thanatourism: A Comparative Approach  (Erik Cohen)....Pages 157-171
 Dark Tourism in an Increasingly Violent World  (Jeffrey S. Podoshen)....Pages 173-187
 Dark Tourism in an Age of ‘Spectacular Death’  (Philip R. Stone)....Pages 189-210
 Dionysus Versus Apollo: An Uncertain Search for Identity Through Dark Tourism—Palestine as a Case Study  (Rami K. Isaac, Vincent Platenkamp)....Pages 211-225
 Dark Tourism as Psychogeography: An Initial Exploration  (Richard Morten, Philip R. Stone, David Jarratt)....Pages 227-255
Front Matter ....Pages 257-260
 Dark Tourism, Difficult Heritage, and Memorialisation: A Case of the Rwandan Genocide  (Mona Friedrich, Philip R. Stone, Paul Rukesha)....Pages 261-289
 ‘Pablo Escobar Tourism’—Unwanted Tourism: Attitudes of Tourism Stakeholders in Medellín, Colombia  (Anne Marie Van Broeck)....Pages 291-318
 Tourism Mobilities, Spectralities, and the Hauntings of Chernobyl  (Kevin Hannam, Ganna Yankovska)....Pages 319-333
 Disasters and Disaster Tourism: The Role of the Media  (Richard Sharpley, Daniel Wright)....Pages 335-354
 Denial of the Darkness, Identity and Nation-Building in Small Islands: A Case Study from the Channel Islands  (Gilly Carr)....Pages 355-376
Front Matter ....Pages 377-380
 Sites of Suffering, Tourism, and the Heritage of Darkness: Illustrations from the United States  (Dallen J. Timothy)....Pages 381-398
 From Celebratory Landscapes to Dark Tourism Sites? Exploring the Design of Southern Plantation Museums  (Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Candace Forbes Bright)....Pages 399-421
 Dark Tourism to Seismic Memorial Sites  (Yong Tang)....Pages 423-441
 First World War Battlefield Tourism: Journeys Out of the Dark and into the Light  (Dominique Vanneste, Caroline Winter)....Pages 443-467
 Tourism to Memorial Sites of the Holocaust  (Rudi Hartmann)....Pages 469-507
Front Matter ....Pages 509-513
 Unravelling Fear of Death Motives in Dark Tourism  (Avital Biran, Dorina Maria Buda)....Pages 515-532
 Politics of Dark Tourism: The Case of Cromañón and ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina  (Maximiliano E. Korstanje, David Baker)....Pages 533-552
 “I Know the Plane Crashed”: Children’s Perspectives in Dark Tourism  (Mary Margaret Kerr, Rebecca H. Price)....Pages 553-583
 Dark Tourism Visualisation: Some Reflections on the Role of Photography  (John J. Lennon)....Pages 585-602
 Educating the (Dark) Masses: Dark Tourism and Sensemaking  (Catherine Roberts)....Pages 603-637
Front Matter ....Pages 639-643
 Marketing Dark Heritage: Building Brands, Myth-Making and Social Marketing  (Geoffrey Bird, Morgan Westcott, Natalie Thiesen)....Pages 645-665
 ‘Death as a Commodity’: The Retailing of Dark Tourism  (Brent McKenzie)....Pages 667-691
 Exhibiting Death and Disaster: Museological Perspectives  (Elspeth Frew)....Pages 693-706
 Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols  (Jenny Cave, Dorina Buda)....Pages 707-726
 ‘Shining a Digital Light on the Dark’: Harnessing Online Media to Improve the Dark Tourism Experience  (Peter Bolan, Maria Simone-Charteris)....Pages 727-746
Back Matter ....Pages 747-768