Shadow zones: dark travel and postcolonial cultures

Clarke, Robert; Dutton, Jacqueline; Johnston, Anna

doi:10.1080/13688790.2014.993426

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“…Surfacing from the literature on experiences, this article follows Clarke, Dutton, and Johnston in presenting dark tourism as 'a field that takes as its object the texts, discourses, institutions, and performances of travel in sites marked by violence and historical trauma'. 20 This definition supports the performances of dark tourism over any one narrative or sensibility while also noting that 'tourism at places of death and suffering can overlap with, reinforce, or collide with the use of those places for broader political projects and agendas'. 21 Dark tourism experiences as performances imply 'a certain narrativization of violence and loss' 22 that brings together multiple voices, perspectives, and practices.…”

Section: Operationalizing Dark Tourism and Violence: Between The Excementioning

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It begins with the bombs: operationalizing violence at a Vietnamese dark tourism site

Gillen

2018

cultural geographies

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This article presents the operationalization of violence in dark tourism through repeated visits to a prominent state-operated tourist site in southern Vietnam called the Cu Chi tunnels complex. I argue that this operationalization occurs because dark tourism plays on the violent performances of the extraordinary and everyday. In making this argument, I encourage both a recuperation of the exceptional aspects of the dark tourism experience and a continued appreciation of dark tourism’s routine characteristics. A performative relationship between the remarkable and the familiar brings the operationalization of violence more closely into conversation with dark tourism in Asia, a field and a region more attuned to memorialization and commemoration than with tourist enactments of violence.

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Section: Operationalizing Dark Tourism and Violence: Between The Excementioning

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It begins with the bombs: operationalizing violence at a Vietnamese dark tourism site

Gillen

2018

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“…This paper has shown that, though not of Pompeiian proportions, Plymouth is a dark tourism destination as a place of disaster, and as, potentially and by presumed association, a place of death. It is a 'shadowzone' of dark travel as conceptualized by postcolonial critics Clarke, Dutton and Johnston (2014), 'a site traumatized by colonialism and its aftermath' (Clarke, Dutton and Johnston, 2014, pp. 221-222) compounded by natural disaster.…”

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Plymouth, Montserrat: apocalyptic dark tourism at the Pompeii of the Caribbean

Skinner¹

2018

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The purpose of this paper is to present contrasting approaches to the descriptive case study of tourism to the buried city of Plymouth, Montserrat, an example of the marketing and burying-the supply and demand-of apocalyptic dark tourism on the island Design/methodology/approach-A case study mixed methods methodology is adopted and findings are derived from tour guiding fieldwork, guide and tourist interviews, and an analysis of travel writing and tourism marketing campaigns. Findings-Dark tourism is viewed as a contentious and problematic concept: it attracts and repels tourism to the former capital Plymouth, Montserrat. Twenty years into the volcano crisis, the islanders, government and Tourist Board are commemorating resilience living with the volcano and regeneration in a disaster scenario. Marketing and consumption approaches to dark tourism elucidate different facets to the case study of 'the buried city' of Plymouth, Montserrat, and the Montserrat Springs Hotel overlooking Plymouth. The disjunct between these two types of approach to dark tourism, as well as the different criteria attached to working definitions of dark tourism-and the range of interests in apocalyptic dark tourism into the city and its surrounds, show some of the problems and limitations with theoretical and scalar discussions on dark tourism. Research limitations/implications-The paper's implications are that both supply and demand approaches to dark tourism are needed to fully understand a dark tourism destination and to reconcile the disjunct between these two approaches and the perspectives of tourist industry and tourism users. Originality/value-This is a descriptive dark tourism case study of a former capital city examined from both supply and demand perspectives. It introduces the apocalyptic to dark tourism destination analysis.

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Shadow zones: dark travel and postcolonial cultures

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

It begins with the bombs: operationalizing violence at a Vietnamese dark tourism site

It begins with the bombs: operationalizing violence at a Vietnamese dark tourism site

Plymouth, Montserrat: apocalyptic dark tourism at the Pompeii of the Caribbean

Travel Theory and Meaningful Mobility

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