This paper discusses the rapidly emerging fascination with dystopian dark tourism. Using participatory observation, this exploratory study examines and analyzes three specific destinations where ...tourists engage with both death and dystopia. Through our examination of the Charles Manson ‘Helter Skelter Tour’ in Los Angeles, the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyeres, Switzerland and the Inferno Music Festival in both Lausanne, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway, we present a model of dystopian dark tourism that integrates dark aesthetics, simulation, emotional contagion and the current global cultural fascination with both utopia and dystopia. We posit that interest in dystopian dark tourism experiences is reflective of an increased insecurity about death, society and its relationship to violence and cultural production.
•A new theoretical model is presented that focuses on the emerging phenomena of dystopian dark tourism (DDT).•Increases in dystopian dark tourism may be a result of a great deal of uncertainty about the future.•Dark aesthetics relate to tourists' encounters with orthodoxies of media immersion, social convention and politics.
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Marta Sanz's Susana y los Viejos (2006) uses the well-known Biblical story as intertextual motif to draw attention to gender double standards within the Spanish context. This article examines the ...representation of ageing and older men vis-á-vis gender politics and the politics of care for the old. Focusing on the novel's specific engagement with 'dirty realism' (stética feísta) and the caricatured portrait of social and personal interactions, the analysis will attempt to weave together the meanings that run through a narrative laden with intertextual and paratextual references.
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