Death as recreation: Armchair mountaineering

Walter, Julian

doi:10.1080/02614368400390051

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“…According to Sontag (2003), it is much easier to ward off other people's pain, and there is also the satisfaction of not being in the same situation. These news stories provide a safe way for audiences to gaze upon pain from a distance, as they do not actually know or are not close to the victim (Walter, 1984, p. 71).…”

Section: Natural Disasters and Media Coveragementioning

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Aestheticizing the Pain: A Critical Analysis of Media Representation of Earthquake Victim Children in Turkey

Atalay,

Muratoğlu Pehlivan

2023

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On February 6, 2023, earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 struck southern and central Turkey. The disaster caused severe damage to buildings and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, leaving many children injured, traumatized, and without basic needs. One of the most sensitive issues was the news stories about children rescued from the rubble. These news stories were highly emotional and sensational, frequently describing the children as miracles. However, they often disregarded the reasons and negligence that caused their victimization. The journalism ethics related to the representation of children, disaster coverage, and interviewing victims are also ignored. This study uses a multimodal critical discourse analysis method to explore the discursive strategies employed in the media coverage of this topic. Three salient common themes were included in the study: “Miracles and hope”, “patriarchal state”, and “sensational/dramatic elements. The analysis shows that media representations of earthquake victim children in Turkey aestheticize their pain and suffering, reducing them to objects of pity or spectacle. By examining these representations critically, the study aims to raise awareness about the importance of ethical and responsible media practices in reporting on natural disasters and other humanitarian crises.

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Section: Natural Disasters and Media Coveragementioning

confidence: 99%

Aestheticizing the Pain: A Critical Analysis of Media Representation of Earthquake Victim Children in Turkey

Atalay,

Muratoğlu Pehlivan

2023

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“…Thus, it becomes clear that this terminology is still considered unusual for the tourism-disaster relationship. Even so, fields such as sociology, anthropology, and musicology have become pioneers in studying death (ritual) and the commodification of death -which is more critical (such as the studies of Walter 1984;Rojek 1993). In its beginning, up to the mid-1990s, dark tourism appeared relatively little in academic studies.…”

Section: Questioning 'Disaster Tourism' Within the Heterotopia Frameworkmentioning

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A Tale of Two Disasters: How is Disaster Emerging as a Tourist Destination in Indonesia?

Suyadnya¹,

Fatanti²

2017

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Abstract:The paper examines how disasters are represented as tourist destinations by local tour guides in tours around two Indonesian disaster areas at the Mount Merapi Eruption in Jogjakarta, Central Java, and Lapindo Mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. Across the world 'disaster' is defined as an observable event in time and space in which societies incur physical damage and loss and/or disruption of their routine activities. Despite the formal definition of disaster characterized by losses, sadness, sorrow, and trauma, in contrast, it is positioned as a more authentic, realistic, and challenging space, as demonstrated by the development of tourism destinations at Mount Merapi and the Lapindo mudflow. By first exploring the complex geography and history of the two disaster areas, this paper argues that any representation of these places can only ever be subjective, conditional and uncertain. Through in-depth interviews and observation with local tour guides and tourism operators this paper investigates how disaster areas are represented to tourists and how its messages are conveyed as 'satisfaction and pleasure tours'. It becomes clear that local tour guides do have the capacity to change the image of disasters as a tourism destination. The paper also scrutinizes in which ways local tour guides transform the perception of fear to the spirit of struggle in post-disaster contexts. It concludes that the local tour guides are responsible for changing the negative perceptions and images of disaster and, through the tours, realize transformative aims.

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The true accessibility of mountaineering: The case of the High Himalaya

Apollo

2017

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

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Death as recreation: Armchair mountaineering

Cited by 14 publications

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Aestheticizing the Pain: A Critical Analysis of Media Representation of Earthquake Victim Children in Turkey

Aestheticizing the Pain: A Critical Analysis of Media Representation of Earthquake Victim Children in Turkey

A Tale of Two Disasters: How is Disaster Emerging as a Tourist Destination in Indonesia?

The true accessibility of mountaineering: The case of the High Himalaya

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