Dark Tourism as Psychogeography: An Initial Exploration

Morten, Richard, Stone, Philip orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9632-1364 and Jarratt, David orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7244-428X (2018) Dark Tourism as Psychogeography: An Initial Exploration. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 227-255. ISBN 978-1-137-47565-7

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47566-4_10

Abstract

The study of ‘dark tourism’ may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the practice itself—including commemorative, educational or even leisure visits to places associated with death and/or suffering—is by no means a new social behaviour (Stone 2007). Scholarly examination of dark tourism has raised fundamental lines of multidisciplinary interrogation, not least issues that focus on notions of deviance and moral concerns of consuming or producing ‘death sites’ within the global visitor economy (Stone and Sharpley 2013). Discourse often revolves around visitor motives and tourist engagement (Yuill 2003), as well as issues of how ‘dark heritage’ should be managed (Hartmann 2014). While motivation is of a personal and subjective nature, managing or producing dark tourism sites is fraught with political difficulties and moral quandaries. Importantly however, the (dark) tourist experience at sites of difficult heritage is a process of ‘co-creation’ between visitor site interpretation and individual meaning-making.

Contents

Section title
Section author
Page
Dark tourism themes, issues and consequences: A preface (Editorial)
Philip R. Stone
1
Encountering Engineered and Orchestrated Remembrance: A Situational Model of Dark Tourism and Its History
Tony Seaton
9
Crime, Punishment, and Dark Tourism: The Carnivalesque Spectacles of the English Judicial System
Tony Seaton, Graham M. S. Dann
33
Death and the Tourist: Dark Encounters in Mid-Nineteenth-Century London via the Paris Morgue
John Edmondson
77
The British Traveller and Dark Tourism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia and the Nordic Regions
Kathryn Walchester
103
“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
125
Dark tourism: Philosophy and theory (Editorial)
Philip R. Stone
151
Thanatourism: A Comparative Approach
Erik Cohen
157
Dark Tourism in an Increasingly Violent World
Jeffrey S. Podoshen
189
Dark Tourism in an Age of ‘Spectacular Death’
Philip R. Stone
189
Dionysus Versus Apollo: An Uncertain Search for Identity Through Dark Tourism—Palestine as a Case Study
Rami K. Isaac, Vincent Platenkamp
211
Dark Tourism as Psychogeography: An Initial Exploration
Richard Morten, Philip R. Stone, David Jarratt
227
Front Matter
UNSPECIFIED
257
Dark Tourism, Difficult Heritage, and Memorialisation: A Case of the Rwandan Genocide
Mona Friedrich, Philip R. Stone, Paul Rukesha
261
‘Pablo Escobar Tourism’—Unwanted Tourism: Attitudes of Tourism Stakeholders in Medellín, Colombia
Anne Marie Van Broeck
291
Tourism Mobilities, Spectralities, and the Hauntings of Chernobyl
Kevin Hannam, Ganna Yankovska
319
Disasters and Disaster Tourism: The Role of the Media
Richard Sharpley, Daniel Wright
335
Denial of the Darkness, Identity and Nation-Building in Small Islands: A Case Study from the Channel Islands
Gilly Carr
355
Front Matter
UNSPECIFIED
377
Sites of Suffering, Tourism, and the Heritage of Darkness: Illustrations from the United States
Dallen J. Timothy
381
From Celebratory Landscapes to Dark Tourism Sites? Exploring the Design of Southern Plantation Museums
Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Candace Forbes Bright
399
Dark Tourism to Seismic Memorial Sites
Yong Tang
423
First World War Battlefield Tourism: Journeys Out of the Dark and into the Light
Dominique Vanneste, Caroline Winter
443
Tourism to Memorial Sites of the Holocaust
Rudi Hartmann
469
The 'dark tourist' experience (Editorial)
UNSPECIFIED
509
Unravelling Fear of Death Motives in Dark Tourism
Avital Biran, Dorina Maria Buda
515
Politics of Dark Tourism: The Case of Cromañón and ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maximiliano E. Korstanje, David Baker
533
“I Know the Plane Crashed”: Children’s Perspectives in Dark Tourism
Mary Margaret Kerr, Rebecca H. Price
553
Dark Tourism Visualisation: Some Reflections on the Role of Photography
John J. Lennon
585
Educating the (Dark) Masses: Dark Tourism and Sensemaking
Catherine Roberts
603
Front Matter
UNSPECIFIED
639
Marketing Dark Heritage: Building Brands, Myth-Making and Social Marketing
Geoffrey Bird, Morgan Westcott, Natalie Thiesen
645
‘Death as a Commodity’: The Retailing of Dark Tourism
Brent McKenzie
667
Exhibiting Death and Disaster: Museological Perspectives
Elspeth Frew
693
Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols
Jenny Cave, Dorina Buda
707
‘Shining a Digital Light on the Dark’: Harnessing Online Media to Improve the Dark Tourism Experience
Peter Bolan, Maria Simone-Charteris
727
Erratum to: Dark Tourism as Psychogeography: An Initial Exploration
Richard Morten, Philip R. Stone, David Jarratt
0
Back Matter
UNSPECIFIED
747

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