1. What have the authors contributed in "Consuming dark tourism: a thanatological perspective" ?
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 framework as a basis for further theoretical and empirical analysis of dark tourism.
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2. What are the future works in "Consuming dark tourism: a thanatological perspective" ?
Journal of Palliative Medicine 5:279–288. Dann, G. 1994 Tourism: The Nostalgia Industry of the Future.
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3. What is the purpose of dark tourism?
dark tourism may offer a revival of death within the public domain, thereby de-sequestering mortality and ensuring absent death is made present, transforming (private) death into public discourse and a communal commodity upon which to gaze.
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4. What is the main argument for the re-conceptualization of death through dark tourism?
the re-conceptualization of death through dark tourism allows for the reconstruction of a replacement meaning system, whereby the reflexive deconstruction of religious orders are being relocated and reconstructed by the consumption of image and the pseudo.
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