Chapter 3. Dark Tourism: Mediating Between the Dead and the Living

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Part 1: Dark Tourism: Theories and Concepts
5. Chapter 1. Shedding Light on Dark Tourism: An Introduction 3
6. Chapter 2. Making Absent Death Present: Consuming Dark Tourism in Contemporary Society 23
7. Chapter 3. Dark Tourism: Mediating Between the Dead and the Living 39
8. Chapter 4. Dark Tourism: Morality and New Moral Spaces 56
9. Part 2: Dark Tourism: Management Implications
10. Chapter 5. Purposeful Otherness: Approaches to the Management of Thanatourism 75
11. Chapter 6. (Re)presenting the Macabre: Interpretation, Kitschifi cation and Authenticity 109
12. Chapter 7. Contested National Tragedies: An Ethical Dimension 129
13. Chapter 8. Dark Tourism and Political Ideology: Towards a Governance Model 145
14. Part 3: Dark Tourism in Practice
15. Chapter 9. ‘It’s a Bloody Guide’: Fun, Fear and a Lighter Side of Dark Tourism at The Dungeon Visitor Attractions, UK 167
16. Chapter 10. Battlefield Tourism: Bringing Organised Violence Back to Life 186
17. Chapter 11. ‘Genocide Tourism’ 207
18. Chapter 12. Museums, Memorials and Plantation Houses in the Black Atlantic: Slavery and the Development of Dark Tourism 224
19. Chapter 13. Life, Death and Dark Tourism: Future Research Directions and Concluding Comments 247
20. References 252
21. Index 274