Dark tourism: why atrocity tourism is neither new nor weird
- Written by Caroline Bennett, Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington
A tourist photographs the stupa of human remains at Choeung Ek Genocidal Center.Caroline Bennett, CC BY-ND
Recently a new show appeared on my Netflix recommendations and drew my attention. Dark Tourist sells itself as a provocative and quirky documentary series, in which New Zealand journalist David Farrier visits sites associated with death,...
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