The Palgrave handbook of dark tourism studies / Philip R. Stone, Rudi Hartmann, Tony Seaton, Richard Sharpley, Leanne White, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dark tourism History -- Encountering engineered and orchestrated remembrance: a situational model of dark tourism and its history / Tony Seaton -- Crime, punishment, and dark tourism: the carnivalesque spectacles of the English judicial system / Tony Seaton and Graham M. S. Dann -- Death and the tourist: dark encounters in mid-nineteenth-century London via the Paris morgue / John Edmondson -- British traveller and dark tourism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scandinavia and the Nordic regions / Kathryn Walchester -- "The smoke of an eruption and the dust of an earthquake": dark tourism, the sublime, and the re-animation of the disaster location / Jonathan Skinner -- Dark tourism: philosophy and theory -- Thanatourism: a comparative approach / Erik Cohen -- Dark tourism in an increasingly violent world / Jeffrey S. Podoshen -- Dark tourism in an age of 'spectacular death' / Philip R. Stone -- Dionysus versus Apollo: an uncertain search for identity through dark tourism - Palestine as a case study / Rami K. Isaac and Vincent Platenkamp -- Dark tourism as psychogeography: an initial exploration / Richard Morten, Philip R. Stone, and David Jarratt -- Dark tourism, society, and culture -- Dark tourism, difficult heritage, and memorialisation: a case of the Rwandan Genocide / Mon Friedrich, Philp R. Stone, and Paul Rukesha -- 'Pablo Escobar Tourism' - unwanted tourism: attitudes of tourism stakeholders in Medellín, Colombia / Anne Marie Van Broeck -- Tourism mobilities, spectralities, and the hauntings of Chernobyl / Kevin Hannam and Ganna Yankovska -- Disasters and disaster tourism: the role of the media / Richard Sharpley and Daniel Wright -- Denial of the darkness, identity and nation-building in small islands: a case study from the Channel Islands / Gilly Carr -- Dark tourism and heritage landscapes - Sites of suffering, tourism, and the heritage of darkness: illustrations from the United States / Dallen J. Timothy -- From celebratory landscapes to dark tourism sites? Exploring the design of southern plantation museums / Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, and Candace Forbes Bright -- Dark tourism to seismic memorial sites / Yong Tang -- First World War battlefield tourism: journeys out of the dark and into the light / Dominique Vanneste and Caroline Winter -- Tourism to memorial sites of the Holocaust / Rudi Hartmann -- The 'Dark Tourism' experience -- Unraveling fear of death motives in dark tourism / Avital Biran and Dorina Maria Buda -- Politics of dark tourism: the case of Cromañón and ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Miximiliano E. Korstanje and David Baker -- "I know the plane crashed": children's perspectives in dark tourism / Mary Margaret Kerr and Rebecca H. Price -- Dark tourism visualisation: some reflections on the role of photography / John J. Lennon -- Educating the (dark) masses: dark tourism and sensemaking / Catherine Roberts -- Business of dark tourism -- Marketing dark heritage: building brands, myth-making and social marketing / Geoffrey Bird, Morgan Westcott, and Natalie Thiesen -- 'Death as a commodity': the retailing of dark tourism / Brent McKenzie -- Exhibiting death and disaster: museological perspectives / Elspeth Frew -- Souvenirs in dark tourism: emotions and symbols / Jenny Cave and Dorina Buda -- 'Shining a digital light on the dark': harnessing online media to improve the dark tourism experience / Peter Bolan and Maria Simone-Charteris -- Erratum to: dark tourism and psychogeography: an initial exploration.