Escape to prison penal tourism and the pull of punishment /
"The resurrection of former prisons as museums has caught the attention of tourists along with scholars interested in studying dark tourism. Unsurprisingly, due to their grim subject matter, prison museums tend to invert the 'Disney' experience, becoming the antithesis of 'the ha...
| Main Author: | Welch, Michael, 1960- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 286 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Penal tourism
- The museum effect
- Dream of order
- Architecture parlante
- Religion and governance
- Work and economics
- Suffering and science
- Colonialism and resistance
- Memorialization
- Cultural power.