Exploring moral gaze: Children gazing at suffering in dark tourism

IF 7.3 2区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourism Management Perspectives Pub Date : 2024-08-17 DOI:10.1016/j.tmp.2024.101293

Emma Dresler

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Dark tourism experiences are often imbued with moral matters. This study adopts the participant-generated photo-elicitation method to explore the tourist gaze at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Thematic analysis of children's photographic narratives reveals that they gaze upon the suffering of others. When interpreting these experiences of suffering, children form moral judgments about what and who caused the suffering. The findings reveal four distinct types of moral gaze: historical moral gaze, interpretive moral gaze, empathic moral gaze, and judgmental moral gaze. The use of participant-generated photo-elicitation method enables children to produce, select, and interpret their own photographs, thereby giving voice to their experiences. This method offers a more nuanced understanding of the children's moral gaze, which has important theoretical and methodological implications for conceptualisation of tourist gaze in dark tourism.

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探索道德凝视：儿童凝视黑暗旅游中的苦难

黑暗的旅游体验往往蕴含着道德问题。本研究采用参与式图片征集法，探讨游客在越南胡志明市战争遗留物博物馆的凝视。对儿童摄影叙事的主题分析表明，他们凝视着他人的苦难。在解读这些苦难经历时，儿童会对造成苦难的原因和人物做出道德判断。研究结果揭示了四种不同类型的道德凝视：历史性道德凝视、解释性道德凝视、移情性道德凝视和判断性道德凝视。使用由参与者生成的照片启发法使儿童能够制作、选择和解释他们自己的照片，从而表达他们的经历。这种方法提供了对儿童道德凝视的更细致入微的理解，对黑暗旅游中游客凝视的概念化具有重要的理论和方法论意义。

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Tourism Management Perspectives Multiple-

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15.60

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3.40%

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59 days

期刊介绍： Tourism Management Perspectives is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on the planning and management of travel and tourism. It covers topics such as tourist experiences, their consequences for communities, economies, and environments, the creation of image, the shaping of tourist experiences and perceptions, and the management of tourist organizations and destinations. The journal's editorial board consists of experienced international professionals and it shares the board with Tourism Management. The journal covers socio-cultural, technological, planning, and policy aspects of international, national, and regional tourism, as well as specific management studies. It encourages papers that introduce new research methods and critique existing ones in the context of tourism research. The journal publishes empirical research articles and high-quality review articles on important topics and emerging themes that enhance the theoretical and conceptual understanding of key areas within travel and tourism management.