Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism

Maximiliano E. Korstanje is editor in chief of International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism (UP Argentina) and International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism (IGI-GlobalUS). Besides being Senior Researchers in the Department of Economics at University of Palermo, Argentina, he is a global affiliate of Tourism Crisis Management Institute (University of Florida US), Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (University of Leeds), The Forge (University of Lancaster and University of Leeds UK) and The International Society for Philosopher, hosted in Sheffield UK. With more than 700 published papers and 25 books, Korstanje was awarded as Outstanding Reviewer 2012- International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, University of Salford, UK; Outstanding Reviewer 2013- Journal of Place Management and Development, Institute of Place, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Reviewer Certificate of Acknowledgement 2014- International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM), University of Central Florida, US. Now he co-edits almost 10 specialized journals in such themes as human rights, mobility, tourism and terrorism. Korstanje is subject to biographical records for Marquis Who`s Who in the World since 2009. He had nominated to 5 honorary doctorates for his contribution in the study of the effects of terrorism in tourism. In 2015 he was awarded as Visiting Research Fellow at School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK and the University of La Habana Cuba. In 2017 is elected as Foreign Faculty Member of AMIT, Mexican Academy in the study of Tourism, which is the most prominent institutions dedicated to tourism research in Mexico. Babu George (Ph D) in Philosophy in Management Studies. Besides serving as Associate professor at Fort Hays State University Kansas US, Babu P George has more than fifteen years of advanced business research, university teaching, and administrative service experience, in the US and internationally. Before joining Fort Hays State University in 2015, Dr. George has worked for Swiss Management Center University, University of Liverpool, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Alaska Pacific University, and the University of Southern Mississippi, among others. He is a visiting professor at various higher education institutions around the world. He is the editor of International Journal of Qualitative Research in Services. Until recently, he was the managing editor of Journal of Tourism. He has more than a hundred peer reviewed and well-cited research publications to his credit. He has authored or edited more than seven books. He is a passionate observer of the complex dynamics of creative destruction that makes idea innovations possible. In his free time, he offers free consulting for the budding grassroots level entrepreneurs.

Preface
Chapter 1- Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism: Discussions Around the Sense of Death
Chapter 2- Museums of Dark Mythologies in the Tourist Place
Chapter 3- Going to the Dark Sites With Intention: Construction of Niche Tourism
Chapter 4- On the Use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Identify the Bright Spots in Dark Tourism
Chapter 5- Research Methods in Dark Tourism Fields
Chapter 6- Political Reflections on Dark Tourism: The Case of Turkey
Chapter 7- Dark Tourism as a Form of Governmentality of Fear
Chapter 8- Death and Culture: Is Thana-Tourism Symptomatic of the End of Capitalism?
Chapter 9- Animal Sexual Abuse and the Darkness of Touristic Immorality
Chapter 10- Banalizing the Alterity: When Suffering Turns Attractive
Conclusion
Compilation of References
About the Contributors
Index