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Changes in motivations for journeys to death spaces: the case of thanatourism.
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Cruelty, age, and thanatourism
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006Two areas of research for testing Nell's theory are suggested. One is cruelty's seemingly negative correlation with age, which would confirm its linkage with testosterone, sex, and dominance. The other is the special field of leisure activity called thanatourism, that is, the transformation of loci of human horror into tourist attractions.
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Thanatourism: Witnessing Difficult Pasts
Tourist Studies, 2011This study looks at difficult heritage tourism as a form of visiting that to a great extent happens through the tourist’s body as locus. Actual tourists are craving for real experiences in order to feel alive and difficult heritage sites offer this experience of presence to excess. In addition tourists are also interested in witnessing the past and its
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Chapter 5. Purposeful Otherness: Approaches to the Management of Thanatourism
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Thanatourism: A Comparative Approach
2018Philip Stone (2012) has proposed a paradigmatic approach to thana (death) tourism in contemporary secular Western, “death-denying” societies, departing from Giddens’ (1991) argument on the weakening of “ontological security” in the contemporary world. Stone proposed that sites of dark tourism constitute what could be seen as a functional substitute for
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Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism
2013Graham M.S. Dann, A.V. Seaton
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The Musa Dagh History Hike: Truth-Telling, Dialogue and Thanatourism
2016The 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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