The Production and Transformation of Tourism Aimed at Graveyard on the Main Island of Okinawa

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  • 沖縄本島における墓地を対象とした観光の生産とその変容
  • 沖縄本島における墓地を対象とした観光の生産とその変容 : 移動に注目したダークツーリズムの考察
  • オキナワ ホントウ ニ オケル ボチ オ タイショウ ト シタ カンコウ ノ セイサン ト ソノ ヘンヨウ : イドウ ニ チュウモク シタ ダークツーリズム ノ コウサツ
  • A Case Study of Dark Tourism Focusing on Mobilities
  • 移動に注目したダークツーリズムの考察

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This research examines questions such as “How a tourist destination is created among various influencing mobilities” and “How does that destination move” with reference to the debate relating to “mobilities turn” that has been attracting attention in the social sciences since the 2000s. To clarifying these dynamic aspects, I have focused on Dark Tourism that tends to view a conflict of meaning at the target place, and examined the tourism aimed at graveyard on the main island of Okinawa as an example. <br> First, in Chapter II, I focus on the role of a steamship company named Osaka Shosen, and how the Tsujibaru graveyard became a tourist destination, especially studying how the tourism aimed at graveyard developed through a variety of mobilities on the main island of Okinawa during the pre-war period. Next, in Chapter III, I examine the mobility of the graveyard as tourist site itself, focusing on the destruction of the Tsujibaru graveyard and on battle site tourism in the southern region of the Okinawa main island after WWII. In doing this analysis, I pay attention to the relational various mobilities and the changes of the socio-political context. Finally, in Chapter IV, I discuss the transformation of the tourism aimed at graveyard in the Okinawa main island since it relates to mobility of the concept of Dark Tourism.

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