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‘Vertopia’: The Future of Dark Tourism Places
No full textStone adopts Foucauldian perspectives to examine surreal future emplacements within virtual realms. He argues these will not only be physical places or (re)imagined spaces but will blend with technologies hitherto undeveloped that liminal seams of the real world and virtual world will become indistinguishable. Stone entitles these new future spaces - vertopia - where technology fuses the entire fabric of our lived reality with virtual reality, distinct only by the multiple stories that can be played out. The chapter contextualises the vertopia in a creative scenario of future dark tourism and penal heritage hyperreality. Consequently, we will engage our digital dead through augmented performances, lived and virtual experiences, as well as a deifying Artificial Intelligence
Dark Tourism Futures. Thoughts, Ideas, Scenarios
No full textThis book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. It outlines key features of difficult heritage and future cultural trauma and highlights the role of technology, immersive visitor experiences and the thanatological condition of future dark tourism
(Re)presenting the macabre: interpretation, kitschification and authenticity
No full textOver the last decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile whilst, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to establish a more informed relationship between the theory and practice of dark tourism. This book meets the undoubted need for such a volume by providing a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism
'It's a Bloody Guide': Fun, Fear and a Lighter Side of Dark Tourism at the Dungeon Visitor Attractions
No full textDark tourism as 'mortality capiltal': The case of Ground Zero and the Significant Other Dead
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