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Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death

Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje, Babu P. George
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781522527503|ISBN10: 1522527508|EISBN13: 9781522527510
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch001
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel, and Babu P. George. "Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death." Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism, edited by Maximiliano Korstanje and Babu George, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch001

APA

Korstanje, M. E. & George, B. P. (2018). Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death. In M. Korstanje & B. George (Eds.), Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism (pp. 1-25). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch001

Chicago

Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel, and Babu P. George. "Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death." In Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism, edited by Maximiliano Korstanje and Babu George, 1-25. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch001

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Abstract

The present chapter questions to what extent visitors in dark sites are really interested for heritage issues or understanding the roots of moral disasters as the specialized literature suggests or simply are in quest of pleasure-maximization. This text is based on a criticism of the book Heritage that hurts authored by Joy Sather-Wagstaff. Far from any emotionality, dark tourism represents an ideological mechanism to reinforce the supremacy of liberal cultural values which are enrooted in late-capitalism. As the previous backdrop, to what extent tourists visiting these sites emulate (living as victims) or produce a genuine empathy with suffering is the main question goes unnoticed for sociologists and anthropologists. This essay review, which explores the roots of emotions not only continues our previous research in regards to the rise of Thana-Capitalism.

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