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Children, Young People and Dark Tourism - Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R. Stone & Rebecca H. Price

By Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R. Stone & Rebecca H. Price

Release Date: 2022-08-31

Genre: Industries & Professions

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This book is the first its kind to offer an innovative examination of the intersecting influences, contexts, and challenges within the field of childrenā€™s dark tourism. It also outlines novel conceptualizations and methods for scholarship in this overlooked field.

Presently, tourism research, and in dark tourism specifically, relies primarily on adult-centered theories and data collection methods. However, these approaches are inadequate for understanding and developing childrenā€™s experiences and perspectives. This book seeks to inform and inspire research on childrenā€™s experiences of dark tourism. Designed to appeal to students and scholars, it brings together insights from leading experts. The book focuses on five themes, to explore the conceptual and historic origins of childrenā€™s dark tourism, developmental contexts, child perspectives, specific contexts relevant to childrenā€™s encounters, and methodological approaches.

This book is aimed at an international array of scholars and students with inherent research interests in the contemporary commodification of death and ā€˜difficult heritageā€™ within the visitor economy. Thus, the book will provide a multi-disciplinary scope within the fields of history, heritage studies, childhood studies, psychology, education, sociology, human geography, and tourism studies. The volume is primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate study, as well as scholars and tourism professionals.

Children, Young People and Dark Tourism - Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R. Stone & Rebecca H. Price

By Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R. Stone & Rebecca H. Price

Release Date: 2022-08-31

Genre: Industries & Professions

(0 ratings)
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This book is the first its kind to offer an innovative examination of the intersecting influences, contexts, and challenges within the field of childrenā€™s dark tourism. It also outlines novel conceptualizations and methods for scholarship in this overlooked field.

Presently, tourism research, and in dark tourism specifically, relies primarily on adult-centered theories and data collection methods. However, these approaches are inadequate for understanding and developing childrenā€™s experiences and perspectives. This book seeks to inform and inspire research on childrenā€™s experiences of dark tourism. Designed to appeal to students and scholars, it brings together insights from leading experts. The book focuses on five themes, to explore the conceptual and historic origins of childrenā€™s dark tourism, developmental contexts, child perspectives, specific contexts relevant to childrenā€™s encounters, and methodological approaches.

This book is aimed at an international array of scholars and students with inherent research interests in the contemporary commodification of death and ā€˜difficult heritageā€™ within the visitor economy. Thus, the book will provide a multi-disciplinary scope within the fields of history, heritage studies, childhood studies, psychology, education, sociology, human geography, and tourism studies. The volume is primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate study, as well as scholars and tourism professionals.

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