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This book is aimed at a diverse community of international scholars and students with inherent research interests in the contemporary commodification of death and “difficult heritage” within the visitor economy. Thus, the book will provide a multi-disciplinary scope within the fields of history, heritage studies, childhood studies, psychology, education, sociology, human geography, and tourism studies. The volume is primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate study, as well as scholars and tourism professionals.
“While adults may be outdated children, it is adults that make our fights, follies, and misfortunes. Meanwhile, it is our children that make history. Therefore, they deserve to be heard. The time has come time for us within the adult academy to adopt child-centered research approaches within dark tourism scholarship. If we do not act, voices of children within traumascapes will be lost, their experiences forgotten, and their understandings obscured. As ‘ghosts’ of our dark tourism deceased cannot leave fingerprints and are left to selective memory, the mark of children on our significant Other dead needs to be hearkened. Only then will we listen to children to understand, rather than listening to them to reply.” Philip R. Stone
Publications: Books
Kerr, M.M., Stone, P. R., & Price, R. (September, 2022). Children, young people, and dark tourism. Abingdon, England: Routledge.
Publications: Peer Reviewed Articles
Kerr, M.M., Stone, P.R. and Price, R. H., 2021. Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites: towards a conceptual framework. Tourist Studies, 21(2), pp.198-21
Croom, A. R., Squitiero, C., & Kerr, M. M. (2018). Something so sad can be so beautiful: A qualitative study of adolescent experiences at a 9/11 memorial. Visitor Studies, 21(2), 157-174.
Kerr, M. M., Fried, S. E., Price, R. H., Cornick, C., & Dugan, S. E. (2017). Rural children’s responses to the Flight 93 crash on September 11, 2001. Journal of Rural Mental Health, 41(3), 176-188.
Kerr, M. M., Price, R. H., Savine, C. D., Ifft, K., & McMullen, M. A. (2017). Interpreting terrorism: Learning from children’s visitor comments. Journal of Interpretation Research, 22(1), 83-100.
Price, R. H., & Kerr, M. M. (2017). Child’s play at war memorials: Insights from a social media debate. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 13(2),167-180.
Kerr, M. M., & Price, R. H. (2016). Overlooked encounters: Young tourists' experiences at dark sites. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 11(2) 177-185.
Publications: Chapters
Divaker, R. & Kerr, M. M. (2023). Close Encounters with Death and Disease: Young Visitors’ Perspectives at the Mütter Medical History Museum. In Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death (Trish Biers & Mary Kate Clary, Eds.) Abington, UK: Routledge.
Kerr, M. M., Price, R. H. , & Rajanikanth, G. (2023). Co-Research with Youth: A Conceptual Model and Case Study. In Children, Young People, and Dark Tourism (M. M. Kerr, P. Stone, & R. H. Price, Eds.) Abington, UK: Routledge
Kerr, M. M., Price, R. H. , & Rajanikanth, G. (2023). Research Methods for Studying Young Tourist Experiences. In Children, Young People, and Dark Tourism (M. M. Kerr, P. Stone, & R. H. Price, Eds.) Abington, UK: Routledge
Kerr, M. M., Greene, C., & Marsh, R. S. (2023). Research Collaborations with Schools. In Children, Young People, and Dark Tourism (M. M. Kerr, P. Stone, & R. H. Price, Eds.) Abington, UK: Routledge
Restrepo-Harner, C., Marsico, K., & Kerr, M. M. (2023). Young Tourists with Disabilities: Considerations & Challenges. In Children, Young People, and Dark Tourism (M. M. Kerr, P. Stone, & R. H. Price, Eds.) Abington, UK: Routledge
Kerr, M. M., & Price, R. H. (2018). “I Know the Plane Crashed”: Children’s Perspectives in Dark Tourism. In P. Stone, R. Hartmann, T. Seaton, R. Sharpley, & L. White (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Publications: Other
Kerr, M. M., Shaffer, A., Hartman, M. (2014). Interpreting the Flight 93 crash for children: A collaborative evaluation project. Legacy: The Magazine of the National Association for Interpretation, July/August, 2014
Shaffer, A. & Kerr, M. M. (2015). "Can you tell my child what happened here?"--- Explaining the Story of United Flight 93. Ranger. [Magazine of the Association of National Park Rangers]
Kerr, M. M., Dugan, S. E., & Frese, K. M. (2016). Using Children’s Artifacts to Avoid Interpretive Missteps. Legacy: The Magazine of the National Association for Interpretation, July/August, 2016