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Department of Marketing, Branding and Tourism Public Seminar
Date: Wednesday 23rd January, 2019
Time: 12.00pm (with lunch)
Venue: Committee Room 3, Hendon Town Hall (The Burroughs, Hendon, London, NW4 4BQ)
The Department of Marketing, Branding and Tourism invites you to this seminar to be delivered by
Dr. Jonathan Skinner
Reader in Anthropology
University of Roehampton,UK
Suicide Tourism: The Unfortunate Genesis of a Practice
Abstract:
One in five 'visitors' to Swiss assisted-dying clinics are reportedly from Britain. This paper examines the unfortunate genesis of 'suicide tourism', a practice coined in 2014/15 for non-nationals visiting assisted-suicide organisations in Switzerland. It presents and critiques the origins of this global niche tourism phenomenon that went viral in the media, and has been associated with 'dark tourism' and 'death tourism' scholarship. Has 'suicide tourism' to Switzerland doubled in recent years? What is tourist behavior leading up to their 'visit'? Is this practice really a form of tourism? And what is the legal status of this 'outsourcing of English pain, fear, angst and debate'? This paper engages with these questions and the assisted-suicide debate through the lens of tourism studies and anthropology, suggesting that suicidal behaviour in the context of mobility raises serious questions, and provokes equally difficult answers, about the challenges to understanding sociality and human nature at the interface of survival, existence and extinction.
Short Bio:
Jonathan Skinner is a Reader in Anthropology at the University of Roehampton. His interests are in the anthropology of leisure (principally tourism and social dance). He has worked in the Caribbean (Montserrat and Anguilla), the US (California), and Northern Ireland. He is Co-Chair of the Anthropology of Tourism Commission (IUAES), author of Before the Volcano (Arawak 2004), and editor and co-editor of Great Expectations (with D. Theodossopoulos, Berghahn 2011), Writing the Dark Side of Travel (Berghahn 2012), The Interview (Bloomsbury 2012), and Leisure and Death (with A. Kaul, University of Colorado Press 2018).
The seminar series are free and offer a unique opportunity to meet colleagues, share experiences and ideas, and network on various themes affecting tourism research and practice within and outside the UK.
To book contact Laura Sutcliffe <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, Programme Administrator Department of Marketing, Branding and Tourism.
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Konstantinos Andriotis
Professor in Tourism
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Department of Marketing, Branding and Tourism
Room W207 - Williams Building The Burroughs
London NW4 4BT United Kingdom
Co-Editor, International Journal of Tourism Policy
Associate Editor, Annals of Tourism Research
Editorial Board Member: Cadernos de Economia Journal, International Journal of Heritage and Sustainable Development (IJHSD), International Journal of Leisure and Tourism Marketing (IJLTM), International Journal of Social Sciences (IJoSS), International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, International Journal of Tourism Sciences (IJTS), International Scientific Journal - TURIZAM, International Scientific Journal Geographica Pannonica, Island Dynamics: Occasional Papers, OTTOMAN: Journal of Tourism and Management Research, Revista de Turism Journal (Journal of Tourism), Tourism and Hospitality Management
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