This paper discusses the significance of holding sporting events in the city of Hiroshima from the following four perspectives: as an originator of messages of peace; efforts to create peace; the ...effects of peace education; and citizens’ enlightenment. The results of my investigation showed that holding sporting events in Hiroshima, which is known worldwide as the first city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it and as a destination for dark tourism, is of great significance for efforts to achieve world peace. It is also effective for cities like Hiroshima to promote the policy of world peace. Those efforts combine sports tourism by holding athletic events that welcome participants and spectators and dark tourism to learn from humanity’s negative legacy. In addition, enhancing education programs on sports and peace is important to make new forms of tourism effective.
3 Maria Tumarkin has coined the term traumascapes to describe places scarred by a legacy of traumatic violence.4 The theoretical issues surrounding dark tourism intersect with the fields of museum ...studies, sociology, consumer psychology, anthropology, philosophy, history, and visual culture. ... bodies are still being discovered.
This article presents a number of examples of prison inmate graffiti photographed by the author in Australian decommissioned prisons. The images are examined with regard to aspects of the sociology ...and social psychology of the prison environment. Abiding themes of prison life are identified and discerned as factors contributing to the content of the graffiti. These include especially power relationships, sexuality, revenge, violence, boredom and the simple desire for some form of entertainment, however fleeting.
The growth in tourism to Cambodia creates many challenges in the context of a developing country. The landscape is rich in natural and built heritage and the outstanding temple complex of Angkor Wat ...is now complemented by a range of other activities and attractions throughout the country. Yet, this is a country that is still healing from a protracted period of war and an internal regime that perpetrated some of the most extreme policies ever seen in the world. The period of the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) saw evacuation of cities, extermination and starvation, closure of international borders. The commemoration and interpretation of this period is explored in the context of modern Cambodia. Heritage and documentation is under threat in a rapidly developing economy, where the past is at best not a development priority and at worst avoided. The difficulty of much of this material for the current political leadership of the country and the attempts by independent non-government organizations to maintain historical representation in the context of tourism attraction operation is discussed. The hypothesis is tested that such tourism sites have an important role in preserving the recent tragic past in a population that has both a 'right to forget' and is focused on a range of new economic priorities.
This research examines questions such as “How a tourist destination is created among various influencing mobilities” and “How does that destination move” with reference to the debate relating to ...“mobilities turn” that has been attracting attention in the social sciences since the 2000s. To clarifying these dynamic aspects, I have focused on Dark Tourism that tends to view a conflict of meaning at the target place, and examined the tourism aimed at graveyard on the main island of Okinawa as an example. First, in Chapter II, I focus on the role of a steamship company named Osaka Shosen, and how the Tsujibaru graveyard became a tourist destination, especially studying how the tourism aimed at graveyard developed through a variety of mobilities on the main island of Okinawa during the pre-war period. Next, in Chapter III, I examine the mobility of the graveyard as tourist site itself, focusing on the destruction of the Tsujibaru graveyard and on battle site tourism in the southern region of the Okinawa main island after WWII. In doing this analysis, I pay attention to the relational various mobilities and the changes of the socio-political context. Finally, in Chapter IV, I discuss the transformation of the tourism aimed at graveyard in the Okinawa main island since it relates to mobility of the concept of Dark Tourism.
In domestic and foreign literature about the dark tourism, there are few papers about the dark tourism in China. At present, the study on the dark tourism in China remains at the starting stage. Most ...studies analyzed development of the dark tourism by SWOT method. No scholar has made analysis on the dark tourism development by PEST (political, economic, social and technological factor) analysis method. China is a large country rich in dark tourism resources. However, the theoretical researches of dark tourism lag behind the practical development. Therefore, it is necessary and urgent to study the development of dark tourism in China. Besides, the dark tourism is a special tourism resource and product, and its researches will further promote prosperity of tourism, push forward social development. Using PEST method, this paper analyzed development of the dark tourism from political, economic, social and technological factors, and it came up with pertinent recommendations.
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