The Dark Tourism of the Bosnian Screen. Edward Alexander. 2015. Gosport, Chaplin Books.

El turismo negro en la pantalla de Bosnia. Edward Alexander. 2015. Gosport, libros de Chaplin.

Resumen

For some reason, which is very difficult to explain here, dark tourism has changed the ways tourism is globally conceived. The apollonian sense of beautiness, which characterized classic tourism, sets the pace to new morbid forms of consumption, which rests on the figure of death as main commodity to exchange. Over recent years, some academicians argued polemically that the needs of consuming the others´ death are culturally enrooted in the ancient days of humankind or at the least in the sedentary cultures. To validate their theses, these scholars insist in the fact that pilgrimage seems to be the clear-cut proof dark tourism was practiced in times earlier than modernity. Likewise, the theory of Dark-Tourism-as-Heritage postulated the importance of considering heritage as the key factors towards the process of thanaptosis, which is previous to the formation of dark tourism sites. We hold the opposite diagnosis, by confirming that dark tourism practices are the sign of a new stage of capitalism, where death is globally exchanged as the main commodity. The concept of dark tourism accelerated rapid changes towards more virtual forms of gazing as virtual tourism or war-tourism, where visitors should move in dangerous or risky conditions.