Introduction: Introduction to Thana-Capitalism 1. A New Stage of Capitalism Has Been Born 2. Dark/Thana Tourism in Focus 3. Leisure, Society, and New Practices 4. Thana-Capitalism: Profits From the Precipice 5. The 9/11, Moral Supremacy and Terror: Why Us? 6. Negated Alterity: Mobilities Theory and the Crisis of Hospitality 7. Narcissism, Digital Platforms and Death 8. Thana Capitalism and the Markets of War: Necro-Economies of Death 9. Dark Tourism and the Spectacle of the Last Chance: Narratives and Roads of Thana Capitalism 10. The Nature of Skolio-Hospitality: A New Face of Hospitality in Thana Capitalism 11. Thana Capitalism: Toward a New Theory
Biography
Maximiliano E. Korstanje is a Professor at the Economics Faculty, University of Palermo, Argentina. He is a cultural theorist who has studied the mobilities theory, tourism, migration, terrorism, and political violence in Western democracies.
"An important handling of how heritage, spaces, and people are subsumed within our political economy. Stitching together sci-fi imaginaries, psychoanalytic insight, and critical theory, this collection provides a stirring analysis."
-James Cronin, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Culture, Lancaster University
"Korstanje’s bold rethinking of capitalism foregrounds death, media spectacle, and tourism as central to contemporary society, offering a provocative and theoretically rich contribution that challenges established paradigms in critical tourism studies, the sociology of risk, mobility, and cultural consumption.”
-Professor Mark Davis, University of Leeds, UK
"Maximiliano Korstanje jolts tourism studies by illuminating how commercialized dark tourism and the virtual pursuit of disaster, death and suffering emerged from digital technologies and entertaining media logic."
-David L. Altheide, Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
"Korstanje’s account of risk society collapsing into spectacles of the real is compelling. Our tourism is voyeurism, one we consume via screen cultures that haunt our lives. Korstanje’s book is brilliant. It might save us all."
-Luke Howie, Deakin University, Australia
