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Dr Louise Todd's Outputs (6)

Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography. Paper presented at The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future (Royal Anthropological Institute annual conference), Online

Today, travel and tourism are increasingly becoming strategies for taking and sharing photographs. This is evidenced through the exponential growth of digital social media platforms as means of recording and displaying tourism settings and experience... Read More about Mapping the visual culture of Edinburgh’s festival city tourist gaze: drawing as autoethnography.

Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2020, September). Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism. Paper presented at ATLAS annual conference 2020: Tourism as a driver of regional development and collaboration, Online

This paper presents emerging themes from our study of the semiotics that sustain the visual culture, consumption and place myth of Edinburgh, as the ‘world’s leading festival city’ (Festivals Edinburgh, 2020). Today Edinburgh hosts eleven internation... Read More about Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism.

Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2022). Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city. Annals of Leisure Research, 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1809478

We explore the case for a Deaf festival in Edinburgh, the self-proclaimed 'world leading Festival City'. The formal recognition of British Sign Language in the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 is paramount to the cultural and political context. Joining Englis... Read More about Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium sponsored by the Geographies of Leisure & Tourism Research Group, Online

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring visual representations of management and local community stakeholders.

Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2020, September). Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces. Paper presented at Festivals and the City: The Festivalisation of Public Space, RGS-IBG Symposium, London

I will explore how two distinct strategic management and local community stakeholder groups engage with a festival city through their visual portrayals of festival spaces. Informed by festival city discourses and a hallmark event tourism stakeholder... Read More about Semiotics of Edinburgh as the festival city: exploring management and community stakeholders’ visual representations of festival spaces.