Category: Theory
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Carrying Capacity – new publication
My contribution to the new Springer Encyclopedia of Tourism, on Carrying Capacity, has just been published. I blogged about this, and the possibilities for linking this concept to big data, last year -you can read this here. If you would like a copy of the entry for research purposes, please contact me directly.
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Critical Tourism Studies conference 2013
This looks set to be a really interesting event. As tourism has matured as an academic area, there has been increasing activity in this field, with academics and organisations producing and responding to an emerging ‘critical turn’ in tourism studies. This turn, which other disciplines such as (for example) history, literature and geography encountered at […]
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Packaging liminality: the management and commodification of liminal landscapes in tourism
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 […]
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Beyond angels, elephants, good intentions and red-nose rebellion
Ixia , the public art think tank, have produced some great stuff on public art, and this event has the best name I’ve come across for an event in a long time. On top of all that, it’s free!
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The development of seaside towns: domestic tourism in a core-periphery context
I’ve been working on some new research with a colleague, Samantha Chaperon, which uses dependency theory as a framework for analysing the development of seaside towns. In particular, we’re interested in what light this research can shed on the new Local Enterprise Partnerships that affect these towns. We’ll be presenting the early stages of our […]
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CFP: ATHE annual conference
The Association for Tourism in Higher Education is pleased to announce its Annual Conference and Call for Papers and Call for Papers ATHE Annual Conference 2010 1st – 3rd Dec 2010 BACK TO THE FUTURE: RESTATING THE CASE FOR TOURISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION http://www.athe.org.uk/conference/default.aspx Hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University and Canterbury […]
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Simulated Cities
I’ve recently had this monograph, based on my Master’s research, published as a book called ‘Simulated Cities: cultural regeneration, branding and representation in urban development’. Click on the image below to find out more information…
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New posts on Aracdes / Promenades
There are three new posts up on our ‘Reading the Arcades / Reading the Promenades’ blog. The first is on our use of a yahoo pipe to collect images of the seaside promenade, the second is a set of links to other projects who also use Benjamin’s ‘Aracdes Project’ as inspiration for new work, and […]
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New post on Arcades / Promenades
Wesley has posted up the latest contribution to our ‘Reading the Arcades, reading the Promenades’ blog, where we are attempting to bring together our readings of Walter Benjamins’ ‘Arcades Project‘ and apply these to the British seaside promenade. A taster of Wesley’s piece: “Benjamin is, very, clear and, far too, concise in his summation of […]
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CFP: Liminal landscapes – remapping the field
This looks to be an excellent event. Wesley Rykalski and I will probably be submitting a paper, based on some of our work on our arcades / promenades project. Symposium Liverpool John Moores University 1st July 2010 Convenors Dr Hazel Andrews, (Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies, LJMU) Dr Kevin Meethan, Department of Sociology, University […]
Dr James Kennell 