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Dr Philip Stone

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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

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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 …


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

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No abstract provided.