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Travel, Tourism and Art. (2013)
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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..

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.

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, 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..