Dark tourism and place identity : managing and interpreting dark places / editied by Leanne White and Elspeth Frew.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Leanne.

Frew, Elspeth.

Routledge (Taylor & Francis eBooks)

Series:

Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 37.

Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dark tourism--Psychological aspects.

Dark tourism.

Geographical perception.

Place attachment.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 296 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Managing and interpreting dark places

Dark places

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Exploring dark tourism and place identity / ELSPETH FREW AND LEANNE WHITE

PART I Vistor motivation

2 The Pere-Lachaise Cemetery: between dark tourism and heterotopic consumption / STEPHANIE TOUSSAINT AND ALAIN DECROP

3. African Americans at sites of darkness: roots-seeking, diasporic identities and place making / LINDA LELO AND TAZIM JAMAL

4 Place identity or place identities: the Memorial to the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, China / WEI DU, DAVID LITTELJOHN AND JOHN LENNON

5 The contribution of dark tourism to place identity in Northern Ireland / MARIA TERESA SIMONE-CHARTERIS, STEPHEN W. BOYD AND AMY BURNS

6 Dark tourism, heterotopias and post-apocalyptic places: the case of Chernobyl / PHILIP R. STONE

PART II Destination management

7 Pagan tourism and the management of ancient sites in Cornwall / CHANTAL LAWS

8 Soviet tourism in the Baltic states: remembrance verus nostalgia

just different shades of dark? / BRENT MCKENZIE

9 Turning the negative around: the case of Taupo, New Zealand / ALEX MORALES

10 Commermorating and commodifying the Rwandan genocide: memorial sites in a politically difficult context / PETER HONENHAUS

11 Dark tourism and place identity in French Guiana / OLIVIER DEHOORNE AND LEE JOLLIFFE

12 Place identities in the Normandy landscape of war: touring the Canadian sites of memory / GEOFFREY R. BIRD

PART III Place interpretation

13 Holocaust tourism in a post-Holocaust Europe: Anne Frank and Auschwitz / KIMBERLEY PARTEE ALLAR

14 Dark detours: celebrity car crash deaths and trajectories of place / GARY BEST

15 Marvellous, murderous and macabre Melbourne: taking a walk on the dark side / LEANNE WHITE

16 War and ideological conflict: prisoner of war camps as a tourist experience in Sourth Korea / EUN-JUNG KANG AND TIMOTHY J. LEE

17 Dark tourism in the Top End: commemorating the bombing of Darwin / ELSPETH FREW

18 Darkness beyond memory: the battlefields at Culloden and Little Bighorn / PUAL WILLARD, CLARE LADE AND WARWICK FROST

19 Beyond the dark side: research directions for dark tourism / LEANNE WHITE AND ELSPETH FREW.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203134900

0203134907

Publisher Number:

99972871453

40022179528

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.