Dr Alexandra Witte's Outputs (3)

Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Witte, A. (2023). Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective. Tourism Geographies, 25(1), 334-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2021.1878269

Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most people engage in on an almost d... Read More about Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective.

Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online (2021)
Journal Article
Muldoon, M. L., Witte, A., Guan, S., Fang, H. Y., Xie, Y., & Zhou, L. (2023). Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online. Annals of Leisure Research, 26(3), 433-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1878379

This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from Mar... Read More about Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online.

Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting (2021)
Journal Article
Hannam, K., Butler, G., Witte, A., & Zuev, D. (2021). Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting. Tourist Studies, 21(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797621992931

This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for w... Read More about Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting.