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Thanatourism in the early 21st century: moral panics, ulterior motives and alterior desires.

2004
This chapter sketches out an overview of thanatourism's progress in the UK and the USA including its academic development, the moral panic that has surrounded it in the media, the debate about its motivations, its political and ideological effects, and its future, including the question as to whether it can properly be categorized as a single entity.
Lennon, John J., Seaton, A. V.
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7 Forms of Thanatourism: José Pla and Josep M. Espinàs

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Thanatourism and the commodification of war tourism space in ex-Yugoslavia

2011
Humanity has a long standing fascination with death and disaster. Although dying has been partially sequestered from many western societies, death itself is the one true anthropological constant, encountered by every society through architecture, literature, language, institutions and many other human practices.
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Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism

2013
Graham M.S. Dann, A.V. Seaton
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The Musa Dagh History Hike: Truth-Telling, Dialogue and Thanatourism

2016
The past is often difficult to grasp, even when it is directly related to one’s family history. The collective memory of historical injustices can be warped by time, overlaid by more recent events, and filtered through the lens of vested interests only too willing to expropriate the past in order to score points in the present.
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Thanatourism in India: Sites of Tragedy, Trauma and Heritage

Thanatourism in India: Sites of Tragedy, Trauma and Heritage is a comprehensive academic exploration of tourism associated with death, tragedy, trauma, and remembrance within the Indian context. Moving beyond conventional notions of leisure tourism, this book examines how sites of suffering—such as battlefields, memorials, disaster locations, prisons ...
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Aura, thanatoplaces, and the construction of thanatourism emotions

Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2022
Prokopis A Christou
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Thanatourism and community-making

2020
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Slavery, Contested Heritage And Thanatourism

Journal of Travel Research, 2003
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Book Review: Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism

Tourist Studies, 2002
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