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What is Thana Tourism

Handbook of Research on Examining Global Peacemaking in the Digital Age
This represents a new way of making tourism where the main attraction is human misery, suffering and death.
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Mediating Death: The Role of Mass Media in Thana-Capitalism
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje (University of Palermo, Argentina)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3032-9.ch011
Abstract
Originally, digital technologies were contemplated by public opinion as instruments which serve to make from this life a safer place. While over recent decades, the digital revolution was oriented to discuss to what extent humans being are credible and agents who can reach objectivity, no less true was that some mass-media paved the pathways for the rise of a new atmosphere of terror, which triggered after 9/11. Doubtless, terrorism, ISIS and 9/11 were the main allegories for the society of consumers. This opens the doors for a paradoxical situation, simply because viewers are enmeshed in a strange fascination for news disseminating crimes, terrorist attacks, calamities and disasters. In earlier research, we have dubbed to this new stage of capitalism, as Thana-Capitalism. In this respect, once conceived as a sign of weakness, consuming others' death implies an aura of superiority for those who have been not touched by death. In the rise of Thana Capitalism, fear and death seem to be two touchstones that mediate between citizens and their institutions.
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Battlefield Tourism
According to Seaton (1996) , thanatourism is a tourism type that is derived from the Ancient Greek word “thanatos,” which means to personalize death, and is more specifically focused on violent deaths than dark tourism. It involves visiting sites related to natural disasters, wars, crimes against humanity, tragic events, and death in general. Thanatourism aims to educate tourists about past events, suffering, and tragedy, but it has also been subject to ethical and moral debates.
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