Dark tourism and voyeurism: tourist arrested for “spying” in Iran

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Dark tourism and voyeurism: tourist arrested for “spying” in Iran

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose voyeurism as one possible lens to analyse the experiential nature of dark tourism in places of socio-political danger, thus expanding psychoanalytic understandings of those who travel to a “dark” place. Design/methodology/approach – Freud's and Lacan's theories on voyeurism are used to examine the desire to travel to and gaze upon something that is (socially constructed as) forbidden, such as a place that is portrayed as being hostile to inte...

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Research Paper

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Date created

2013

Creator

Buda, Dorina Maria / McIntosh, Alison J.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8000

Related subjects

dark tourism/tourist / emotions / experience / online interviewing / psychoanalysis / tourism / voyeurism

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