Chernobyl and the Sublime Tourist

Tourist Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-137

  Goatcher, Jeff ^a   Brunsden, Viv ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; dark tourism; post modern sublime; recovery; visual sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255168711     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: 17413206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797611424956     Document Type: Article

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