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Death and Culture: Is Thana-Tourism Symptomatic of the End of Capitalism?

Death and Culture: Is Thana-Tourism Symptomatic of the End of Capitalism?

Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje, Babu George
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781522527503|ISBN10: 1522527508|EISBN13: 9781522527510
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch008
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel, and Babu George. "Death and Culture: Is Thana-Tourism Symptomatic of the End of Capitalism?." Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism, edited by Maximiliano Korstanje and Babu George, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 150-174. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch008

APA

Korstanje, M. E. & George, B. (2018). Death and Culture: Is Thana-Tourism Symptomatic of the End of Capitalism?. In M. Korstanje & B. George (Eds.), Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism (pp. 150-174). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch008

Chicago

Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel, and Babu George. "Death and Culture: Is Thana-Tourism Symptomatic of the End of Capitalism?." In Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism, edited by Maximiliano Korstanje and Babu George, 150-174. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch008

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Abstract

Taking cues from the surging popularity of thana-tourism, this paper argues that its prevalence echoes the end days of capitalism. The predominant forms of tourism in a society reflect the ethos of that society. What we once called ‘mass tourism' reflected the spirit of classical capitalism; later, ecotourism and various other alternative forms of tourism reflected a critical turn in capitalism, often called the ‘sympathetic capitalism'. These were incremental alternations, however. Thana-tourism is a qualitatively discontinuous form of tourism and its surge should thus correspond with a similarly discontinuous, radical, shift in capitalism. The authors present scholarly perspectives to bring home the view that thana-tourism might indeed be symptomatic of the end of capitalism

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