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Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism
Babu P. GeorgeMaximiliano Emanuel Korstanjesubject
Dark tourismEmotionality0502 economics and business05 social sciences050211 marketingPsychologySocial psychology050212 sport leisure & tourismdescription
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.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-01 |