15 Critical theories in dark tourism: Over the years and beyond

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Foreword 1
5. 1 Dark tourism: The need for a critical approach 5
6. Part I: Dark tourism, affect and emotions
7. 2 Atmospheric instability in dark tourism: Spatial construction of conflicting affective atmospheres at the Titanic Museum & Attraction, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (USA) 33
8. 3 Understanding the emotions of visitors to Chernobyl 53
9. Part II: Dark tourism and critical animal studies
10. 4 Animals as dark tourism attractions: A prototype 77
11. 5 Meet, greet and eat: Farmed animals as dark tourism attractions 89
12. Part III: Dark tourism and critical memory studies
13. 6 Trading paradise for Palestine: Dark tourism to refugee camps in the West Bank 109
14. 7 The scope of dark tourism-scapes: Exclusion zones and their creative boundedness from Chornobyl to Montserrat 129
15. 8 Exploring the intersections between dark tourism and Arctic traumascapes in the Anthropocene: The case of Finnish Lapland 147
16. 9 “Despicable and disgusting”: Emotional labor, and the fear of dark tourism 163
17. 10 Welcome to Revachol: Disco Elysium as virtual dark tourism 181
18. Part IV: Dark tourism, power and identity
19. 11 Sites of (dark) consciences: Investigating dark tourism cosmologies in a postcolonial landscape 203
20. 12 Towards a postcolonial museum? Experiencing legacies of colonialism in dark tourism museum exhibits 219
21. 13 Exhibiting power: Dark tourism and crime in the police museum 245
22. 14 Representations in UK witches tours: Walking over the roots of misogyny 261
23. 15 Critical theories in dark tourism: Over the years and beyond 277
24. List of contributors 285
25. List of figures 291
26. Index 293