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A highly informative book. Contains 4 sections - 15 academic essays on the topic of Death Tourism or Thanotourism. Covers memory, ethics and implications of death tourism. Different authors/scholars speak of Manhattan project, 9/11, holocaust tourism, Cambodia‘s killing fields, Rawandan genocide etc. Well-researched and lots to think about. Definitely worth reading if you like academic pieces.

An eye opening current read offering important and diverse perspectives on what is known as thanotourism or death tourism - that is tourism to places where there has been historic genocide, loss, torture etc. This book is a set of academic essays on this topic enmeshed with questions of memory, narrative, and identity politics