Such phenomenon registers a striking actuality. Conflictual and political phenomena observed by war tourists, includes world wars, civil wars, battles, and battlefields themselves. This is a process that is frequent for many centuries. It balances between a sort of pulsion of death deployed by voyeurs, and a more positive connotation, in the form of projects to remember traumatic periods of war, in order to remember and correct mistakes that shouldn’t have happened and be repeated again, and to construct or reconstruct lost or depleted identities. Some contemporary illustrations are a public exhibition, in Kiev, May 2022, displaying Russian tanks captured by the Ukrainian army; and the named ‘House of Russian War Crimes’, inaugurated at the 2022 World Economic Forum, at Davos.
Published in Chapter:
Which Sociology of Urban Tourism in the Day After Viral Society?: For an Intercultural, Intermediary, and Inter-Methodological Hybrid and Open Research
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 40
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3369-0.ch001
Abstract
The contemporary pandemic conjuncture may lead to a ‘viral society', an unprecedent social paradigm involving deep economic, political, and cultural transformations. To cope with this globally unstable situation, it is urgent to deconstruct and reconstruct knowledge (e.g., through a social and sociological Encyclopedia of Viral Tourism addressing a particular genealogy of research on tourism studies and to be disseminated via a Virtual Sociological Museum). The author invokes here recent debates and his own personal research. Epistemologically, the pertinence of a hybrid and open research and several theoretical topics and case studies on tourism are discussed, for example, tourism articulated with the COVID-19 pandemic and the encounter of this viral tourism conjuncture with the war in Ukraine, which defines a new breed of war tourism. Regarding methodologies, the author converses on Hybrid Discourse Analysis and Visual, Virtual, and Viral Methods, such as sociological comics, video papers, artistic sociology, and sociological augmented reality.