Репрезентации на три балкански града (Ниш, София и Букурещ) в контекста на тъмния туризъм (dark tourism)

Abstract

Stone (2006) argues that dark tourism involves visits to sites, attractions and exhibitions, which main or dominant themes have real or animated scenes of death, suffering, massacres. The paper focuses on the representations of the cities in the context of dark tourism on The Balkans, often imagined as “a shadow-land of mystery” (Todorova 2009: 29). The aim of the paper is to explore the concept of dark tourism, its implementation and the communication of collective/national memory and (political) ideology through dark sites. From Stone’s typological perspective, dark attractions themselves are classified into a number of different types.