Napatrzcie się! Mroczna turystyka i nowoczesność
Feast Your Eyes! Dark Tourism and Modernity

Summary/Abstract: This article describes the phenomenon of "Thanatourism" – the practice of visiting places marked by suffering, the macabre, and death, such as cemeteries, battlefields, sites of catastrophes, political torture, or the homes of mass murderers. The author describes past attempts to classify this practice and evolution of the trend, as the term is applied by its scholars. She also poses questions concerning the various motivations of people who take part in these sorts of activities, and their significance in today's world, considering them from the perspective of political and media discourses. Sendyka attempts to set criteria for the process of isolating places determined by death from the geographical space.

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