Charles Booth Charles.Booth@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Strategy and Organisation
Post-modernity and the exceptionalism of the present in dark tourism
Booth, Charles; Casbeard, Rebecca
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Rebecca Casbeard
Abstract
The paper is a polemical essay concerning approaches to the historical other; a critique of the exceptionalism of the present displayed in some of the contemporary dark tourism literature. We review claims in this literature that dark tourism is both a product of and signifier for post-modernity. We utilise the criteria underpinning these claims to analyse two historical cases of thanatological travel in the first half of the 19th century and conclude that, as both cases self-evidently demonstrate recognisably ‘contemporary’ aspects of dark tourism, conceiving of the latter as ‘post-modern’ is historically inaccurate and misguided. The essay closes with a plea for a historically-informed sensitivity in researching the field.
Citation
Booth, C., & Casbeard, R. (2012). Post-modernity and the exceptionalism of the present in dark tourism
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 8, 2019 |
Journal | Journal of Unconventional Parks, Tourism & Recreation Research |
Print ISSN | 1942-6879 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 4 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 2-8 |
Keywords | post-modernity, history, dark tourism |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/951845 |
Publisher URL | http://juptrr.asp.radford.edu/ |
Related Public URLs | http://juptrr.asp.radford.edu/Volume4/Post-modernity.pdf |
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