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View article: (Non)representational atmospheric methods: Comfort zones, weather, and tuning into the high street
(Non)representational atmospheric methods: Comfort zones, weather, and tuning into the high street Open
The cultivation of pleasurable atmospheres is important for revitalising the UK’s high streets. However, existing literature cautions atmospheres are challenging to research, especially when adopting more ‘traditional’ or representational …
View article: (Dis)ordering atmospheres: A sensory ethnography of a seaside pier
(Dis)ordering atmospheres: A sensory ethnography of a seaside pier Open
Atmospheres have long been considered a controllable marketing tool, arising through the deployment of multisensory design tactics in consumption spaces. Whilst atmospheres are increasingly recognised as unstable and vulnerable to unpredic…
View article: More-than-food tourism
More-than-food tourism Open
Food tourism researchers are increasingly seeking to question why tourists eat animals, and the ethical dimensions of such encounters. The tourist experience has largely been taken as the starting point in this research, influenced by the …
View article: Reflections from the Business School's margins: On doing engaged scholarship
Reflections from the Business School's margins: On doing engaged scholarship Open
In this response to Lees's opening article on engaged dialogue, we reflect on doing engaged scholarship in the context of UK high streets. We foreground three facets of this approach: first, collaborating with partners beyond the ivory tow…
View article: Making the football stadium homely: Manchester City's relocation from Maine road to the Etihad
Making the football stadium homely: Manchester City's relocation from Maine road to the Etihad Open
Much geographical literature concerning home focuses on its emotional potency. This paper explores how football supporters consider their club's stadium as a 'home'. However, this sense of homeliness can evaporate when clubs relocate to ne…
View article: Consuming atmospheres
Consuming atmospheres Open
This chapter begins by introducing readers to the inspiration behind the Consuming Atmospheres book. Readers are then taken on a journey through the past, present, and future of the topic of consuming atmospheres in the marketing field, th…
View article: Consuming memorial tattoos: the body as marketplace object?
Consuming memorial tattoos: the body as marketplace object? Open
The body is central to contemporary consumer culture. However, whilst material objects such as family heirlooms can be used by the living to create a sense of immortality for the deceased, little is known about why persons might turn to th…
View article: From flesh to food: Exploring consumers’ fluctuations in hysteresis
From flesh to food: Exploring consumers’ fluctuations in hysteresis Open
Bourdieu’s interrelated concepts of habitus and field have been deployed to theorise the unreflexive consumption practices characterising much of consumers’ everyday lives. Less is known, however, about the disruptive experience when habit…
View article: Remembering and anticipating researcher vulnerability: an autoethnographic tale
Remembering and anticipating researcher vulnerability: an autoethnographic tale Open
Whilst there is nascent literature surrounding researcher vulnerability, little is known about how memories and anticipations can elicit researcher vulnerabilities, and vulnerable academic writing can still be met with some scepticism. In …
View article: Atmospheres of Belonging? Exploring Ambient Power Through Manchester’s Craft Beer Festivals
Atmospheres of Belonging? Exploring Ambient Power Through Manchester’s Craft Beer Festivals Open
City atmospheres are increasingly engineered through multi-sensory manipulations to render places attractive in a competitive global landscape. Reflecting the wider ‘festivalisation of cities’, cultural festivals play an important role in …
View article: (Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization and craft beer events
(Re)crafting belonging: cultural-led regeneration, territorialization and craft beer events Open
This paper contributes to debates on the use of cultural events to regenerate urban areas. Cultural geographers have identified the influence of such events in informing urban belonging, whilst being cautious towards the politics associate…
View article: Tourism and Hospitality industry resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from England
Tourism and Hospitality industry resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from England Open
The tourism and hospitality industries have been particularly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with widespread closures and later re-opening times than other areas of economic activity. However, little is known about the resilience of th…
View article: Processional walking: Theorising the ‘place’ of movement in notions of dwelling
Processional walking: Theorising the ‘place’ of movement in notions of dwelling Open
This article rethinks dwelling as an active and emergent process through which (re)connections to place are valorised by humans collectively walking with each other in a recursive manner. We revisit Heidegger's notion of dwelling, often cr…
View article: (Re)thinking place atmospheres in marketing theory
(Re)thinking place atmospheres in marketing theory Open
This article explores consumers’ experiences of place atmospheres through a study into football matches, a context in which atmosphere is pertinent. While existing marketing literature concerning atmospherics largely conceptualises atmosph…
View article: Ma(r)king memories: exploring embodied processes of remembering and forgetting temporal experiences
Ma(r)king memories: exploring embodied processes of remembering and forgetting temporal experiences Open
Based on in-depth interviews with nine tattoo consumers, participant observation at a tattoo studio, a tattoo consumption diary, and photography, we investigate embodied processes of remembering and forgetting temporal experiences. We unpi…