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The value of participating in British exploring society expeditions: a three year multi-cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Allison, P., Martindale, R., Stott, T., Gray, S., Nash, C., Fraser, K., & Wang, J. (2018). The value of participating in British exploring society expeditions: a three year multi-cohort study. Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Kinanthropologica, 54(1), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.14712/23366052.2018.1

A primary aim of many expeditions is to facilitate personal development of young people and while there is much anecdotal evidence to support this aim, there is limited empirical work of varied quality that explores the specific nature of such benefi... Read More about The value of participating in British exploring society expeditions: a three year multi-cohort study.

Fulfilling promises of more substantive democracy? Post-neoliberalism and natural resource governance in South America (2016)
Journal Article
Siegel, K. M. (2016). Fulfilling promises of more substantive democracy? Post-neoliberalism and natural resource governance in South America. Development and Change, 47(3), 495-516. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12234

Benefitting from the commodity boom progressive governments across South America have sought to move away from the neoliberal policies adopted previously by strengthening the role of the state and using revenues from commodity exports to address soci... Read More about Fulfilling promises of more substantive democracy? Post-neoliberalism and natural resource governance in South America.

Travel, Tourism and Art. (2013)
Book
Rakic, T. (2013). T. Rakić, & J.-A. Lester (Eds.), Travel, Tourism and Art. Ashgate Publishing

Art, in its many forms, has long played an important role in people’s imagination, experience and remembrance of places, cultures and travels as well as in their motivation to travel. Travel and tourism, on the other hand, have also inspired numerous... Read More about Travel, Tourism and Art..

Narratives of Travel and Tourism. (2012)
Book
(2012). J. Tivers, & T. Rakić (Eds.), Narratives of Travel and Tourism. Ashgate Publishing

Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad themes as its starting point - travellers and their nar... Read More about Narratives of Travel and Tourism..

Rethinking the consumption of places (2012)
Journal Article
Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2012). Rethinking the consumption of places. Annals of Tourism Research, 39, 1612-1633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2011.12.003

The phenomenological concept of embodiment has underpinned the ‘performance turn’ in tourism studies which, along with the ‘mobilities paradigm’, has contributed to the disruption of the occularcentric and static nature of Urry’s original (1990, 1995... Read More about Rethinking the consumption of places.

Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020 (2012)
Report
Clapham, D., Mackie, P., Orford, S., Buckley, K., Thomas, I., Atherton, I., & McAnullty, U. (2012). Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020. Edinburgh, Scotland: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Recent economic, social and political change has resulted in a lot of uncertainty regarding the housing options for young people in the UK. This report aims to inform the development of housing policy and practice by identifying the key challenges li... Read More about Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020.

Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities (2011)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2012). Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities. Gender, Place and Culture, 19(2), 213-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2011.573141

This article examines the ‘superhero’ phenomenon, in which Western masculinity is constructed differently in East Asia than in Western countries. This produces an imagined, Occidentalist ‘authenticity’ that frames expectations about the performances... Read More about Superheroes in Shanghai: constructing transnational Western men's identities.

Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking (2010)
Journal Article
Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2010). Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking. International Journal of Tourism Research, 12, 379-389. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.761

While visual methods have long been utilised as legitimate research techniques in the social sciences, within mainstream tourism research these techniques are rarely employed. This paper thus seeks to question current research practices in tourism by... Read More about Innovative techniques in tourism research: An exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking.

Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field (2009)
Journal Article
Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (2009). Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field. Current Issues in Tourism, 12(3), 255-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500802401972

This paper seeks to ‘promote’ the use of moving image visual ethnography within tourism research while concurrently acknowledging the methodological and practical challenges inherent in the use of this method. The paper introduces Dziga Vertov's 1929... Read More about Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field.

‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China. (2008)
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2008). ‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 4(1), 67-89. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v4i1.67

This paper examines Western teachers’ and Chinese students’ assumptions about second language acquisition and the nature of language itself. It explores the interaction of outward classroom behaviours derived from these assumptions as symbols that ma... Read More about ‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China..

Individual Travel Patterns (2007)
Book Chapter
Stradling, S. G., & Anable, J. (2007). Individual Travel Patterns. In R. D. Knowles, J. Shaw, & I. Docherty (Eds.), Transport Geographies: Mobilities, Flows and Spaces (179-195). Blackwell

So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’ (2004)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2004). So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’. Scottish Geographical Journal, 120(1-2), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00369220418737189

This paper investigates place and positionality in the regional novel against a background of evolving trends in geographical scholarship of place and placelessness. In re-examining the representation of Glasgow in the urban regional novel, it propos... Read More about So many Glasgows: From ‘personality of place’ to ‘positionality in space and time’.

Problems and possibilities of delivering ‘footloose’ geography: the case for space (2001)
Journal Article
McCleery, A. (2001). Problems and possibilities of delivering ‘footloose’ geography: the case for space. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 25(2), 225-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098260120067691

Within the UK Higher Education system, geography is sometimes taught outside the framework of a conventional geography degree programme. Using a case study of the situation at Napier University, Edinburgh, this paper explores the problems and possibi... Read More about Problems and possibilities of delivering ‘footloose’ geography: the case for space.