Now that Dark Tourist is on NETFLIX even more relevant to read. #AffectiveTourism another article with co-author is out! “Dark tourism and affect: framing places of death and disaster” (contact me if you want a copy and don’t have institutional access) ABSTRACT This conceptual article brings to the attention of tourism scholars new possibilities to […]
Dark tourism gains increasing popularity, there’s even a recent Netflix series Dark Tourist. I have commented briefly on AJ+ Español about the concept and the practice of dark tourism.
Great News! PhD student co-author and I published an article on the thorny issue of how to analyse affects and emotions, we focused on e-mail interviews in this article! And it is about tourists visiting the Japanese Tohoku region affected by the nuclear disaster. #AnalysingAffects #DarkTourism #PostDisasterTourism #AffectiveTourism #ResearchAffects https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13683500.2018.1511693
If you want to understand the wider implications of mobility, migration and travel on society’s sexual and racial stereotypes in relation to Asian women and men, I am sure you’ll find this episode informative. I would have preferred a bit more nuance in relation to East Asia (mostly referred to in this video), rather than […]
Together with two wonderful colleagues, Jennie Germann Molz, and Alan A. Lew, I am guest-editing a Special Issue in Tourism Geographies about Affective Attunements in Tourism Studies. Interested colleagues please see link for more info to send an abstract: http://www.tgjournal.com/affect.html
Dark tourism, travel to places connected to death, disaster & atrocities has just become more expensive, US $100,000 to dive & visit the Titanic. See more details in the video below and here http://www.oceangate.com/expeditions.html “Deep-sea exploration company Oceangate is offering wealthy tourists the opportunity to visit the Titanic. The company is conducting the first survey […]
Ramadan Karim from #AffectiveTourism in a sunny England to all our readers who observe it.
Learning a new foreign language makes us more tolerant, amongst other things. What better way to learn a new language than through #travel & #tourism!
Last week it was #Easter and #Peasch #Passover, this Sunday it is #OrthodoxEaster. To celebrate it listen to this Romanian monk playing the semantron, and by all means travel to #Romania for #OrthodoxEaster and throughout summer & spring. It is a magical country.
My dear friends, colleagues and wider readership please accept from me a warm wish of happy holidays for all those celebrating #Easter or #Passover-Pesach this weekend.