Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces

Abstract

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‘Making Tragic Places’: dark tourism, kitsch and the commodification of atrocity

“…Using a scaled approach, they articulate a framework of 'lived', 'perceived', and 'conceived' aspects of dark sites. Similar to Seaton's (2009) notion of polysemy and multiple meanings within dark tourism, Spokes et al (2018) unpack the heteroglossic nature of deviant spaces and memorialisation within dark tourism places. It is here that coexistence of meanings makes a single dark tourism site and, in so doing, allows potential representation of multiple voices.…”

“…Whilst tourism placemaking is receiving increasing scholarly scrutiny, a number of studies have also began to explore placemaking within dark tourismfor example, Wang, Chen, and Xu (2019), Rofe (2013), and White and Frew (2013). Interestingly, Spokes, Denham, and Lehmann (2018) examine dark tourism, memorialisation and 'deviant spaces' through the philosophical lens of Henri Lefebvre. Using a scaled approach, they articulate a framework of 'lived', 'perceived', and 'conceived' aspects of dark sites.…”