Dark tourism and pilgrimage / edited by Daniel H. Olsen and Maximiliano E. Korstanje.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olsen, Daniel H., 1973- editor.

Korstanje, Maximiliano E., editor.

C.A.B. International, issuing body.

Series:

CABI series in tourism management research

CABI religious tourism and pilgrimage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dark tourism.

Heritage tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Tourism.

Historic sites.

Sacred space.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume is an eclectic multidisciplinary collection of essays related to the interconnections between dark tourism and pilgrimage travel. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Theories and histories of dark tourism and pilgrimage are covered, as well as aspects of the visitor experience, including tourists' motivations and emotional responses, and social aspects, among others. The book has 22 chapters and a subject index.

Contents:

Preface / Philip R. Stone

Negotiating the intersections between dark tourism and pilgrimage / Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Daniel H. Olsen

Is the 'dark' still dark? The evolution of dark tourism and pilgrimage destinations / M�ujde Bideci

Interpreting the sacred in dark tourism / Nitasha Sharma

The convergence of dark tourism and pilgrimage tourism: The case of Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia / Geraldine Anne Tan

Pilgrimages to terror: The role of heritage in dark sites / Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Luke Howie

Dark heritage as a basis for dark tourism development in Slovenia / Lea Kužnik, Boža Grafenauer

Im(possible) dark tourism in Bulgaria / Sonia Mileva

From burial spaces to pilgrimage sites: the changing role of European cemeteries / Lidija Pliberšek, Nuša Basle and Sonja Sibila Lebe

The sublime darker heritage tourism aspects at St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta / Dane Munro

Martyrdom and dark tourism in Carthage, Illinois / Scott C. Esplin and Daniel H. Olsen

Lost in the sea of trees: Japan's Aokigahara, suicide and dark tourism / Alissa Burger

Recreating the dead: Darkest tourism and pilgrimage in Mormon handcart pioneer trek re-enactments / Julie Hartley-Moore

Visiting post-disaster ruins: A journey to meaningful experiences / Yachen Zhang, Alexandra Coghlan and Kathy Knox

Museums as in populo dark tourism sites: A case study of visitor experience / Nigel Bond, Angela Carr and Donna Comtesse

The ten-year anniversary of the civil rights pilgrimage: An experiential exploration into history, diversity, equality and equity / Jodi M. Thesing-Ritter, Janna R. Caspersen, Nicholas J. Walkowiak, Jacie L. Jones and Cecelia R. Lewis

'Though I walk through the valley': Teaching Richard Wright through experiential learning / Jennifer L. Hayes

Dark tourism or pilgrimage in the museum? Considering the case of Emmett Till's casket / Matthew Cook

Finding roots: Pop culture pilgrimage and the affective geographies of Kunta Kinteh Island / Katheryn Wright

A mass grave and a massacre: Encounters with remembrances of death at Wounded Knee, South Dakota / Danielle Johannesen

Borough of the dead: The weight of hip hop's history and tourism's dark pilgrimage to the Bronx / Joseph Donica

Dark visits / Stephen Newton

Designing experiences at Holocaust memorial sites / Peter Ward and Brian Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed February 21, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Dark tourism and pilgrimage.

ISBN:

9781789241891

9781789241884

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