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Haunted heritage : the cultural politics of ghost tourism, populism, and the past /

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"Haunted Heritage is a fascinating scholarly examination of the dynamics of ghost or paranormal tourism. Michele Hanks explores how this phenomenon is a powerful site for the re-articulation and re-configuring of ideas of heritage, epistemic authority, nation, and belonging. Drawing on long-ter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanks, Michele
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2015]
Series:Heritage, tourism, and community ; v. 7.
Subjects:
Haunted places > England > York.
Ghosts > England > York.
Parapsychology > Investigation.
Tourism > Social aspects.
Heritage tourism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
TRAVEL > Europe > Great Britain.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Supernatural.
Ghosts.
Haunted places.
England > York.
Tourismus.
Psiphänomen.
Geisterglaube.
York.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ghost Tourism and the Production of Haunted Heritage
  • Chapter One. Constructing Haunted Destinations: An Analysis of Ghosts on TV, in Travel Literature, and in the Museum
  • Chapter Two. Discourses and Enactments of Belief and Transformation on Ghost Walks and Commercial Ghost Hunts
  • Chapter Three. Staging Ghost Hunts: The Roles of Knowledge, Expertise, and Science in Ghost Tourism
  • Chapter Four. Encountering the Ghostly: Mediumship, Populism, and the Articulation of Amateur Expertise
  • Chapter Five. "This is the Real England": Discourses of Authenticity, National Belonging, and Difference
  • Conclusion: The Populist Logic of Haunted Heritage and its Consequences.