The Rise of Thana-Capitalism and Tourism

This book explores the notion of an emergent class of 'death seekers' who consume the spectacle of the disaster, exploring spaces of mass death and suffering. Sites that are obliterated by disasters or tragic events are recycled and visually consumed by an international audience, creating a death seekers economy. The quest for the suffering of others has captivated the attention of many tourists, visiting sites such as concentration camps, disasters zones, abandoned prisons, and areas hit by terrorism. This compelling book will be interest to students and scholars researching dark tourism, tourist behaviour, disaster studies, cultural studies and sociology.

Maximiliano E. Korstanje is Reader at the Department of Economics, University of Palermo, Argentina and a member of the Tourism Crisis Management Institute (University of Florida), the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (University of Leeds), The Forge (University of Lancaster and University of Leeds, UK) and The International Society for Philosophers, hosted in Sheffield, UK. He is Editor in Chief of The International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism and The International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism. With more than 800 published papers and 35 books, Maximiliano E. Korstanje was nominated for five honorary doctorates for his contributions to the study of the effects of terrorism in tourism. In 2015 he became Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK.

Preface: The Cult to IndividualismIntroductionChapter 1: New Trends in Leisure PracticesChapter 2: Capitalism and Human SufferingChapter 3: Consuming DisastersChapter 4. Thana-CapitalismChapter 5: Understanding the Origin of EvilnessChapter 6: From the Enigma of Christ Toward Noah's ArkChapter 7: The Supremacy of Anglo-Race: Individualism Above AllConclusionBibliography Index