Dark Tourism in the American West 1st ed. 2020 Edition Jennifer Dawes

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030211894
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030211899
• Author(s): Jennifer Dawes

This edited collection expands scholarly and popular conversations about dark tourism in the American West. The phenomenon of dark tourism―traveling to sites of death, suffering, and disaster for entertainment or educational purposes―has been described and, on occasion, criticized for transforming misfortune and catastrophe into commodity. The impulse, however, continues, particularly in the American West: a liminal and contested space that resonates with stories of tragedy, violent conflict, and disaster. Contributions here specifically examine the mediation and shaping of these spaces into touristic destinations. The essays examine Western sites of massacre and battle (such as Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and the “Waco Siege”), sites of imprisonment (such as Japanese-American internment camps and Alcatraz Island), areas devastated by ecological disaster (such as Martin’s Cove and the Salton Sea), and unmediated sites (those sites left to the touristic imagination, with no interpretation of what occurred there, such as the Bennet-Arcane camp).

Table contents:

1. Is All Tourism Dark?

2. The Long Shadow: Marketing Dachau

3. Prison Tourism: Exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK

4. Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires: Appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily

5. Death Camp Tourism: Interpretation and Management

6. Guilty Landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the Past: Dedham Vale and the Murder in the Red Barn

7. A Culturally Constructed Darkness: Dark Legacies and Dark Heritage in the Channel Islands

8. A Light in Dark Places? Analysing the Impact of Dark Tourism Experiences on Everyday Life

9. The Undead and Dark Tourism:  Dracula Tourism in Romania

10. Genocide tourism in Rwanda: contesting the concept of the ‘Dark Tourist’

11. Everyday Darkness and Catastrophic Events: Riding Nepal’s Buses through Peace, War and an Earthquake


12. From Living Memory to Social History: Commemoration and Interpretation of a Contemporary Dark Event

13. Experiencing dark heritage live

14. Dark Tourism in the Brightest of Cities: Rio de Janeiro and the Favela Tour

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