It begins with the bombs
Operationalizing violence at a Vietnamese dark tourism site
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2406388 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamie Gillen (0000-0002-1618-724X, National University of Singapore, Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 519-536 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-4740 • E-ISSN: 1477-0881 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474474018762810 |
| OpenAlex | W2795102601 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This article presents the operationalization of violence in dark tourism through repeated visits to a prominent state-operated tourist site in southern Vietnam called the Cu Chi tunnels complex. I argue that this operationalization occurs because dark tourism plays on the violent performances of the extraordinary and everyday. In making this argument, I encourage both a recuperation of the exceptional aspects of the dark tourism experience and a continued appreciation of dark tourism's routine characteristics. A performative relationship between the remarkable and the familiar brings the operationalization of violence more closely into conversation with dark tourism in Asia, a field and a region more attuned to memorialization and commemoration than with tourist enactments of violence
Aesthetics · Art · Conversation · Dark tourism · Epistemology · Great Rift · Linguistics · Operationalization · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Vietnamese · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |