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Deviance, Dark Tourism And ‘Dark Leisure’: Towards A (Re)Configuration Of Morality And The Taboo In Secular Society, Philip R. Stone Dec 2012

Deviance, Dark Tourism And ‘Dark Leisure’: Towards A (Re)Configuration Of Morality And The Taboo In Secular Society, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

A taboo is a prohibition placed on exposing what is good as well as what is bad. Indeed, prohibited by authority or social influences, taboos are rooted in an unconscious guilt and insulated from our psychosocial life-worlds by mediating institutions of religion and politics. Yet, in an age of secularisation and liberalisation, new mediating institutions of the taboo are emerging, particularly within contemporary museology. Presently, therefore, a number of time-honoured taboos are increasingly becoming translucent and, as a result, there is a new willingness to tackle inherently ambiguous and problematical interpretations. Consequently, an exhilarating phase of museological development has opened …


Dark Tourism, Heterotopias And Post-Apocalyptic Places: The Case Of Chernobyl, Philip R. Stone Dec 2012

Dark Tourism, Heterotopias And Post-Apocalyptic Places: The Case Of Chernobyl, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

On 26 April 1986, during a procedural shut down of reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukraine), a catastrophic surge of energy led to a reactor vessel rupture and, subsequently, resulted in the world’s worst nuclear accident. Numbers of deaths from the disaster vary enormously, including from the radioactive fallout that encroached great swathes of Western Europe, to the apparent generational health maladies that now affect local populations. However, despite remaining health and safety concerns, illegal visitor tours to Chernobyl have flourished over the past decade or so. Moreover, during …


Dark Tourism And Significant Other Death: Towards A Model Of Mortality Mediation, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2011

Dark Tourism And Significant Other Death: Towards A Model Of Mortality Mediation, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Dark tourism and the commodification of death has become a pervasive feature within the contemporary visitor economy. Drawing upon the thanatological condition of society and a structural analysis of modern-day mortality, this paper establishes theoretical foundations for exploring dark tourism experiences. The study argues that in Western secular society where ordinary death is sequestered behind medical and professional façades, yet extraordinary death is recreated for popular consumption, dark tourism mediates a potential social filter between life and death. Ultimately, the research suggests that dark tourism is a modern mediating institution, which not only provides a physical place to link the …


Dark Tourism And The Cadaveric Carnival: Mediating Life And Death Narratives At Gunter Von Hagens' Body Worlds, Philip Stone Dr Mar 2011

Dark Tourism And The Cadaveric Carnival: Mediating Life And Death Narratives At Gunter Von Hagens' Body Worlds, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Death is universal, yet dying is not. Consequently, within contemporary secularised society, the process of dying has largely been relocated from the familiar environs of the family and community to a back region of medical and death industry professionals. It is argued that this institutional sequestration of death has made modern dying ‘bad’ against a romantic portrayal of a death with dignity, or a ‘good’ death. Moreover, the structural analysis of death reveals issues of ontological security and mortality meaning for the Self. This paper, therefore, adds to that analysis, and specifically examines the construction of mortality meaning within the …


Dark Tourism: Towards A New Post-Disciplinary Research Agenda, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2010

Dark Tourism: Towards A New Post-Disciplinary Research Agenda, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Abstract: Over the past decade or so, dark tourism research –that is, the social scientific study of tourism and tourists associated with sites of death, disaster or the seemingly macabre – has witnessed a burgeoning of the literature base. Much of this research has a profundity that can and, undoubtedly, will contribute to broader social theories and to our understanding of culturaldynamics. Arguably, however, some dark tourism research has been characterised by a banality that either illustrates deficient conceptual underpinning or provides for limited disciplinary synthesis. Thus, in order to assuage any structural deficiencies in dark tourism as a coherent …


Introduction: Thinking About The Tourist Experience, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Introduction: Thinking About The Tourist Experience, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Tourist Experience: Contemporary Perspectives, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Tourist Experience: Contemporary Perspectives, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

To consume tourism is to consume experiences. An understanding of the ways in which tourists experience the places and people they visit is therefore fundamental to the study of the consumption of tourism. Consequently, it is not surprising that attention has long been paid in the tourism literature to particular perspectives on the tourist experience, including demand factors, tourist motivation, typologies of tourists and issues related to authenticity, commodification, image and perception. However, as tourism has continued to expand in both scale and scope, and as tourists’ needs and expectations have become more diverse and complex in response to transformations …


Socio-Cultural Impacts Of Events: Meanings, Authorised Transgression And Social Capital, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Socio-Cultural Impacts Of Events: Meanings, Authorised Transgression And Social Capital, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Dark Tourism Experiences: Mediating Between Life And Death, Philip R. Stone Dec 2010

Dark Tourism Experiences: Mediating Between Life And Death, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Life, Death And Dark Tourism: Future Research Directions, Philip R. Stone Dr Dec 2008

Life, Death And Dark Tourism: Future Research Directions, Philip R. Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Review: Prison Tourism: Cultural Memory And Dark Tourism, Philip R. Stone Dec 2008

Review: Prison Tourism: Cultural Memory And Dark Tourism, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

Book review for "Prison Tourism: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism"


The Darker Side Of Travel: The Theory And Practice Of Dark Tourism, Philip R. Stone Dec 2008

The Darker Side Of Travel: The Theory And Practice Of Dark Tourism, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

Over the past decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile while, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to establish a more informed relationship between the theory and practice of dark tourism.

This book meets the undoubted need for a such a volume by providing a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism.


Making Absent Death Present: Consuming Dark Tourism In Contemporary Society, Philip R. Stone Dec 2008

Making Absent Death Present: Consuming Dark Tourism In Contemporary Society, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Dark Tourism: Morality And New Moral Spaces, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2008

Dark Tourism: Morality And New Moral Spaces, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


(Re)Presenting The Macabre: Interpretation, Kitschification And Authenticity, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2008

(Re)Presenting The Macabre: Interpretation, Kitschification And Authenticity, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


"It's Bloody Guide" - Fun, Fear And A Lighter Side Of Dark Tourism At The Dungeon Visitor Attractions, Uk, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2008

"It's Bloody Guide" - Fun, Fear And A Lighter Side Of Dark Tourism At The Dungeon Visitor Attractions, Uk, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

No abstract provided.


Consuming Dark Tourism: A Thanatological Perspective, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2007

Consuming Dark Tourism: A Thanatological Perspective, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Despite increasing academic attention paid to dark tourism, understanding of the concept remains limited, particularly from a consumption perspective. That is, the literature focuses primarily on the supply of dark tourism; less attention, however, has been paid to the demand for ‘dark’ touristic experiences. This theoretical paper seeks to address this gap in the literature. Drawing upon the contemporary sociology of death, it explores the relationship between socio-cultural perspectives on mortality and the potential of dark tourism as a means of confronting death in modern societies. In so doing, it proposes a model of dark tourism consumption within a thanatological …


Review: The 25 Best World War Ii Sites: European Theatre. The Ultimate Traveller’S Guide To Battlefields, Monuments And Museums, Philip R. Stone Dec 2007

Review: The 25 Best World War Ii Sites: European Theatre. The Ultimate Traveller’S Guide To Battlefields, Monuments And Museums, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

Book review for "The 25 Best World War II Sites: European Theatre. The ultimate traveller’s guide to battlefields, monuments and museums"


Dark Tourism: A New Moral Peril?, Philip R. Stone Dec 2007

Dark Tourism: A New Moral Peril?, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

This brief articles examines the ethics of dark tourism consumption.


Dark Tourism: The Ethics Of Exploiting Tragedy, Philip R. Stone Mar 2007

Dark Tourism: The Ethics Of Exploiting Tragedy, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

This article was written for Travel Weekly and briefly highlights dark tourism and the need for its ethical production and consumption.


Review: Kz – A Feature Length Film Documentary By Rex Bloomstein, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2006

Review: Kz – A Feature Length Film Documentary By Rex Bloomstein, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Review of the television documentary "KZ" by Rex Bloomstein. Published by The Dark Tourism Forum and available at www.dark-tourism.org.uk


A Dark Tourism Spectrum: Towards A Typology Of Death And Macabre Related Tourist Sites, Attractions And Exhibitions, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2005

A Dark Tourism Spectrum: Towards A Typology Of Death And Macabre Related Tourist Sites, Attractions And Exhibitions, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

Deaths, disasters and atrocities in touristic form are becoming an increasingly pervasive feature within the contemporary tourism landscape, and as such, are ever more providing potential spiritual journeys for the tourist who wishes to gaze upon real and recreated death. As a result, the rather emotive label of 'dark tourism' has entered academic discourse and media parlance, and consequently has generated a significant amount of research interest. However, despite this increasing attention the dark tourism literature remains both eclectic and theoretically fragile. That is, a number of fundamental issues remain, not least whether it is actually possible or justifiable to …


Dark Tourism – An Old Concept In A New World, Philip R. Stone Dec 2004

Dark Tourism – An Old Concept In A New World, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

A brief article highlighting the historical origins of dark tourism and its relevance in modern-day society.


Consuming Dark Tourism: A Call For Research, Philip Stone Dr Dec 2004

Consuming Dark Tourism: A Call For Research, Philip Stone Dr

Dr Philip Stone

There are an increasing plethora of sites associated with death, tragedy or the macabre that have become significant tourist ‘attractions’. As a result, the term ‘dark tourism’ has entered academic discourse. However, dark tourism literature is both eclectic and theoretically fragile. This is especially the case with regards to consumption and its implications for understanding the ‘dark tourist’. Thus it is suggested that the dimensions of dark tourism consumption have not been extracted or interrogated – only assumed. Consequently, with death and the nature of dying at the crux of the dark tourism concept, this article calls for the development …


Review: Niche Tourism – Contemporary Issues, Trends & Cases, Philip R. Stone Dec 2004

Review: Niche Tourism – Contemporary Issues, Trends & Cases, Philip R. Stone

Dr Philip Stone

Book review for "Niche Tourism – Contemporary Issues, Trends & Cases".