Death Seekers as Diplomats of Thana Capitalism / Consumidores de Tragédias Como Embaixadores do Thana Capitalismo

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This essay review is not an applied research, nor ethnography conducted in dark tourism places, rather, it connotes with a conceptual debate respecting to the shifts in holiday-making process suffered recently. This marks the rise and expansion of a new facet of capitalism, Thana Capitalism, with a definite class, death-seekers who are prone to consume events, situations of pain and suffering to reinforce their own supremacy. Beyond the so-called interests or sensibility for the other, dark tourism practices hidden a perverse core which is unveiled in this discussion.

KEYWORDS

Tourism. Death Seekers. Capitalism. Thana Capitalism. Mobilities.

RESUMO

Este ensaio não trata de pesquisa aplicada, nem de etnografia realizada em locais de turismo ‘dark’, mas, sim, encaminha um debate conceitual sobre as mudanças nos processos recentes das viagens. Processos que marcam o surgimento e expansão de uma nova faceta do capitalismo, o Thana Capitalismo, que se caracteriza pela presença de uma classe de consumidores propensos a consumir eventos, locais e situações mórbidas ou situações de dor e sofrimento, para reforçar sua própria supremacia. Além dos interesses ou [in]sensibilidade para com o outro, as práticas obscuras do turismo escondem um núcleo perverso, revelado nesta discussão.

PALAVRAS-CHAVE

Turismo. Consumidores de Tragédias. Capitalismo. Thana Capitalismo. Mobilidades.

AUTOR

Maximiliano E Korstanje – Master. Professor in University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Curriculum: http://www.igi-global.com/affiliate/maximiliano-korstanje/294465. E-mail:  maxikorstanje@hotmail.com

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Recebido: 12 JUN 2016

Avaliado: AGO - SET

Aprovado: 3 JAN 2017