2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Uncovering the black-box of educational dark tourism: Comparative analysis of the mechanisms of packaging and perceiving of war narratives through war heritage sites between former enemies
| Project/Area Number |
18H03462
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIDA Kaori 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (00550386)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
DIMACHE ALEXANDRU 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 助教 (30870240)
BUI ThanhHuong 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (80711556)
YOUN SeungHo 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 准教授 (80804757)
リー ティモシー 立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (20635495)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | war memory / educational tourism / memory studies / dark tourism / heritage tourism |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Our research, in questioning the validity of the concept of dark tourism, has uncovered the black box of educational dark tourism in Asia. More specifically, we have found the following aspects of educational dark tourism, a sub-category of dark tourism: 1) educational war-related tourism in Asian societies memorializes deadly suffering, but also sheds light on the brightness brought after the darkness, 2) the process of (young) visitors’ war memory (re)construction involves interrelation among various forms of representations of past wars, along with educational tourism (materials) and history textbooks. Findings of this research unpacked dark tourism practices in Asian societies, pointing out an urgent need to understand how to reconstruct war memories among young generations, in line with modern and popular forms of remembrance, such as popular media.
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| Free Research Field |
Media and cultural studies
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Educational dark tourism, a sub-category of dark tourism, had a large gap in theory, with reference to the Asia Pacific region. Our findings revealed the theoretical limitation of common Western-based approach to dark tourism, stressing the need of incorporating Asian-based conceptualization.
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