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Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols

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This chapter explores the proposition that the act of ‘souveniring’ recent and/or ancient places of death, disaster, or atrocities is a more emotionally immersive experience—and thus less cognitively controlled—than in other tourism contexts. We introduce and explore the notion of ‘dark souvenirs’ which encompass unlikely forms, redolent of darkness, emotions, and affective experiences in the dark tourism context of places connected to death, disaster, or atrocities.

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  1. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Jenny Cave

  2. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Cave, J., Buda, D. (2018). Souvenirs in Dark Tourism: Emotions and Symbols. In: R. Stone, P., Hartmann, R., Seaton, T., Sharpley, R., White, L. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47566-4_29

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