Overview
- Presents the first holistic academic study of dark tourism
- Authored by an international selection of world-leading experts, established academics, emerging scholars and new academics
- Combines empirical case studies with ‘real-world’ viewpoints from the tourism industry and the media
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Section 1
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Section 2
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About this book
Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines ‘real-world’ viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of ‘heritage that hurts’. The handbook adopts a progressive and thematic approach, including critical accounts of dark tourism history, dark tourism philosophy and theory, dark tourism in society and culture, dark tourism and heritage landscapes, the ‘dark tourist’ experience, and the business of dark tourism.
The PalgraveHandbook of Dark Tourism Studies will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in aspects of memorialisation and morality in sociology, death studies, history, geography, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, business management, museology and heritage tourism studies, politics, religious studies, and anthropology.
Reviews
“Readers will find this book extremely useful for thinking about the concept, its meaning, and how it may be used to expand human understanding. The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies hits the sweet spot between accessibility and scholarly sophistication and balances the specific with the general and theoretical. … this handbook is essential, provocative, inspiring, and representative of the best and most experienced minds in the field.” (Kathryn N. McDaniel, Journal of Tourism History, March, 1, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rudi Hartmann is Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver, USA.
Tony Seaton is MacAnally Professor of Tourism Behaviour and Travel History, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland and Emeritus Professor of Tourism Behaviour, University of Bedfordshire, UK.
Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism & Development, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Leanne White is Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Victoria University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies
Editors: Philip R. Stone, Rudi Hartmann, Tony Seaton, Richard Sharpley, Leanne White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47566-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-47565-7Published: 02 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47566-4Published: 20 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 768
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Tourism Management, Sociology of Culture, Global/International Culture, Human Geography, Memory Studies