What’s so ‘Dark’ about ‘Dark Tourism’
Death, Tours, and Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12697451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael S Bowman (0000-0002-8950-2626, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA,, corresponding author), Phaedra C Pezzullo (0000-0002-5766-7776, Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 187-202 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468797610382699 |
| OpenAlex | W2113796199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 76 |
| References cited | 42 |
Tourist studies scholars have sought to differentiate tours of the picturesque, the romantic, and the sublime from those of the disgusting, the abject, and the macabre. The assumption is that tourist destinations for relaxation and play involve a notably different clientele, tour operator, and set of ethical questions than those destinations where death and tragedy once occurred. An increasingly popular framework to approach this research is ‘dark tourism’. Despite the emerging discourses questioning it, none have interrogated the trope of ‘dark’ itself. This essay identifies and interrogates the scholarly and political assumptions behind labeling tourist destinations at sites of death as ‘dark’. Then, drawing on performance theory and the authors’ own fieldwork, the essay recovers a range of ways that the performance studies turn in tourist studies can be a productive approach to studying the intersections of death and tourism, including questions of ritual, play, identity, everyday life, and embodiment
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Autoethnography · Dark tourism · Destinations · Great Rift · Identity (music · Literature · Macabre · Political science · Romance · Social science · Sociology · Sublime · Tourism · Tragedy (event · Trope (literature · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Religious Tourism and Spaces
O dark tourism e o desafio à preservação da memória
Dark tourism scholarship
Dionysus Versus Apollo
A happy experience of a dark place
Dark tourism and affect
Public History and Tourism – A Success Story
A netnographic examination of visitor perception of the ghost city of Varosha in Famagusta, Cyprus
A critical review of dark tourism studies
Beyond thanatopsis
Light versus dark motives in dark tourism
The evaluative language of dark tourism
Mortality salience and meaning in life for residents visiting dark tourism sites
Expectations, Experiences, and Memories
From Prison Islands to Island Paradises
Body Piercing in “Modern Primitivism” and in Thailand's Vegetarian Festival
Consuming dark sites via street art
Co-Creating Nature
A haunting presence
Popping-a-Squat and Other Bits of Ephemera
The Irish Hills of Michigan
Beyond difficult pasts
Authenticity, absence, and pedagogy on a historical injustice bus tour
Dark tourism, thanatourism, and dissonance in heritage tourism management
Dark tourism' and the 'kitschification' of 9/11
The Politics of dark tourism in Sri Lanka
On Ugliness in Words, in Politics, in Tour-ism
Demystifying dark tourism to develop a future agenda for research
War Museums in Postwar Lebanon
Falling in Place
Surgimiento y expansión de los “Death-Seekers”
Tour guide performances
Live, virtual, and spectral
Negative heritage
Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism
Rethinking rhetorical field methods on a precarious planet
Rethinking slavery heritage tourism
Following Death
Mediating a difficult past
Feeling ‘like part of the action’
Heritage Ethics and Human Rights of the Dead
Managing ghosts
It’s not that we like death or anything’
Child’s play at war memorials
Bonnie and Clyde’s extrajudicial killing
The rise of paranormal investigations as virtual dark tourism on YouTube
Overlooked encounters
The positive role of negative emotions in heritage-site visits
Beauty versus tragedy
Commemoration of the Great War on the Somme
The lady ghost’ in the Recoleta Argentinian graveyard
Post-disaster tourism
The Role of Horror and Dread in the Sacred Experience
Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites
Forming an ‘Activism Bubble’ in Tourism
Staged authenticity in penal history sites across Canada
Visitor perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage
Progress in dark tourism and thanatourism research
Staging fear
Have we illuminated the dark? Shifting perspectives on ‘dark’ tourism
Rethinking dark tourism
Travel experience and being-toward-death
Feeling dark, seeing dark
Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums
Understanding the Attraction
Going underground
Recasting sustainable summer holidaying
Repurposing the Ruin to Remember
From mixed emotional experience to spiritual meaning
Consumption, motivation and experience in dark tourism
Communitas in fright tourism
Tourism as political theatre in North Korea
Culloden Battlefield
Affective spaces, sensuous engagements
Affective dark tourism encounters
Desire at play
The Mirror of the Dead
The Future of Ritual
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
Tourism
Deeply into the Bone
Ways of Escape
On HolidayA History of Vacationing
Image and pilgrimage in Christian culture
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Performance Studies
Destination Culture
Empty Meeting Grounds
Bodies that Matter
Gender Trouble
Politically-oriented tourism in Jerusalem
Tourists and/as disasters
Dark tourism
Ethical travel decisions travel agents and human rights
Shades of dark tourism
Gallipoli thanatourism
Auschwitz
Purity and Danger
The tourist
Guided by the dark
Consuming dark tourism
The trouble with tourism and travel theory
Performing tourism, staging tourism
Staging tourism
Sightseeing in the mansions of the dead
On the Rim
Bodies That Matter
From Ritual to Theatre
Maasai on the Lawn
The Body in Tourism
Travel as Performed Art
| Unique citing works | 76 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 75 |