Dark Tourism and Crime Dalton Derek
Dark Tourism and Crime Dalton Derek Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. However, whilst books have been devoted to dark tourism as a general topic no single text has sought to explore…
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Dark Tourism and Crime Dalton Derek
Dark tourism has become widespread and diverse. However, whilst books have been devoted to dark tourism as a general topic no single text has sought to explore dark tourism in spaces where crime - mass murder, genocide, State sanctioned torture and violence - has occurred as an organising theme.Dark Tourism and Crime explores the socio-cultural contours of this unique type of tourism and explains why spaces/places where crime has occurred fascinate and attract tourists. It has passed into popular culture vernacular, deployed in guide books as a short hand descriptor for sites that are associated with death, suffering and trauma.
Based on empirical ethnographic research it takes the reader from the The book is marked by an ethics of respect for the suffering a place has experienced and an imperative to learn something tangible about the history and legacy of that suffering.