Writing the Dark Side of Travel

Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004), and co-editor of Managing Island Life (University of Abertay Press 2006) and Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (Berghahn 2011).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Writings on the Dark Side of TravelJonathan SkinnerChapter 1. Between Trauma and Healing: Tourism and Neoliberal Peacebuilding in Divided SocietiesJohn NagleChapter 2. Sebald’s Ghosts: Travelling among the Dead in The Rings of SaturnSimon CookeChapter 3. Graphic Wounds: The Comics Journalism of Joe SaccoTristram WalkerChapter 4. Visiting Rwanda: Accounts of Genocide in Travel WritingRachel MoffatChapter 5. Walking Back to Happiness? Modern Pilgrimage and the Expression of Suffering on Spain’s Camino de SantiagoKeith EganChapter 6. Shades of Darkness: Silence, Risk, and Fear among Tourists and Nepalis during Nepal’s Civil WarSharon HepburnChapter 7. Beyond Frames: The Creation of a Dance Company in Healthcare through the Journey of Brain TraumaJenny ElliottChapter 8. The House on the Hill: An Analysis of Australia’s Stolen Generations’ Journey into Healing through the Site ofTraumaFiona MurphyChapter 9. Exploring Landscapes after Battle: Tourists at home on the old Front LinesJennifer IlesNotes on Contributors

“The greatest insights and discoveries come from actively exploring and mapping out the fertile connections between the different essays. If readers are willing to do this, they will, I think, ultimately find that the book provides a very stimulating engagement with both the dark side of travel, and the dark side of travel writing.”  ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“This volume is truly coherent and contributes to a better understanding of a little appreciated aspect of contemporary tourism. It will certainly become a standard reference work in the field of anthropology of tourism and tourism studies. Despite the “darkness” of the issues addressed, it must be considered a very colourful success.”  ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale