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Packaging liminality: the management and commodification of liminal landscapes in tourism

James Kennell — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:33:22 +0000

Wesley Rykalski and I have had the abstract below accepted for the ATLAS 2011 conference in Valmeira, Latvia. The theme of the conference is ’Landscape and Tourism: a dualistic relationship”. Our plan for this paper is to take the methodology that we’ve been developing through the ‘Reading the Arcades / Reading the Promenades’ project over the last two years and apply it to other tourist spaces, in order to test its value as a new approach to engaging with the non-spaces (Auge 1995) of much touristic practice.

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Filed under: arcades / promenades, arcades project, conferences, research methods, Theory, Tourism, walter benjamin Tagged: arcades project, conference, presentations, publications, research methods, Theory, Tourism, walter benjamin

Seaside towns and Local Enterprise Partnerships: paper

James Kennell — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:38:41 +0000

Our paper on seaside towns and local enterprise partnerships has just been published in the proceedings of the 2010 ATHE conference. Click here to go to the ATHE website where you order a copy of the proceedings. The abstract is below:

Despite their huge popularity as holiday destinations, seaside towns have generally been under-researched. Existing research is limited to narrow historical perspectives and is often focused at a regional level. British seaside towns have suffered a significant decline but there is little attention given to how contemporary issues are likely to shape their futures. For this paper, a sample of British seaside towns that form part of the newly approved Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) are analysed to identify how these new governance arrangements are likely to affect future development in these areas. Core-periphery theory (CPT) is used as a framework within which to analyse these arrangements and to identify potential problems and obstacles. Analysis reveals significant governance issues for seaside towns in terms of structural inequalities and relationships of dependency. The LEPs do not adequately recognise the peripheral nature of seaside towns and the special conditions needed for their development. There is a reliance on outdated growth models and there is a lack of innovation in their approach. From a CPT perspective, the new LEPs do not seem to provide a brighter future for the development of seaside towns.

Filed under: conferences, economic development, publications, seaside Tagged: conferences, Local Enterprise Partnerships, publications, regeneration, research methods, seaside, Tourism

Greening Bonnaroo

James Kennell — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:41:08 +0000

This is the presentation that I gave today at the Global Events Congress IV, in Leeds. It is a case study of the event experience and sustainability, based on the application of micro-ethnographic methods. The primary research was carried out by my colleague, Rebekah Sitz. The full paper from this study is published in the conference proceedings.

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Ethnographic methods in events research

James Kennell — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:29:59 +0000

A colleague and I have had a paper accepted for the ‘Global Events Congress IV: Events and Festivals Research: The State of the Art’ event, to be held in Leeds from 14-16 July 2010.

Our paper looks at how the application of methods from ethnography can contribute to events management research. Bekah carried out participant observation, photographic and auto-photographic research during the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee in the US. You can read our abstract here

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Methodspace

James Kennell — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:36:16 +0000

I have just found a website called Methodspace which claims to be ” the home of the Research Methods community from across the world”, a browse through is very interesting, if you’re into research methods like me….

The site is published by Sage and so I’m sure it will have a pro-sage text bias lurking in there somewhere, but the content appears to be mainly user-generated, with lots of forums and commentary. If you are carrying out a research project then you should be able to use this site to get feedback on your research design and discuss research issues with like-minded individuals.

The reports of the conference at the LSE last month on social science research and public policy are up on the site, you can view them by clicking here.