Outputs (2)

Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Wight, A. C. (2020). Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis. Tourism Management, 81, Article 104142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104142

This study presents a netnographic discourse analysis of social media content generated around three high profile European Holocaust heritage sites: Ann Frank’s House in Amsterdam, The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland, and the Jewish... Read More about Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis.

Lithuanian genocide heritage as discursive formation (2016)
Journal Article
Wight, A. C. (2016). Lithuanian genocide heritage as discursive formation. Annals of Tourism Research, 59, 60-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2016.04.002

This paper presents a synthesis of Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge and the concept of discursive formation to critique museums and sites of memory as spaces in which competing discourses of cultural identity emerge. The research context is the tr... Read More about Lithuanian genocide heritage as discursive formation.