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View article: Notes Towards a Phenomenological Anthropology of Travel and Tourism
Notes Towards a Phenomenological Anthropology of Travel and Tourism Open
This paper is an introduction to the Humanities Special Issue on ‘The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism’. It is made up of four sections, the first two of which provide the main focus of discussion. We start by considering the idea of tr…
View article: Can the Story of Eve (Genesis 2-3) be Interpreted as Feminist
Can the Story of Eve (Genesis 2-3) be Interpreted as Feminist Open
This essay will argue that Eve in Genesis 2-3 cannot be interpreted as feminist as her story, tied to Adam, is inherently patriarchal. I will argue against three points that form the basis of a feminist re-interpretation of Genesis 2-3: th…
View article: Minding the emptiness of nothing: methodological nothingness and the spatial anthropology of futility
Minding the emptiness of nothing: methodological nothingness and the spatial anthropology of futility Open
As an exercise in autoethnographic fieldwork, resolving to sit in meditation practice (zazen) in the middle of a road traffic island, flanked by the concrete expanse of an expressway flyover, one's presence partly concealed by vegetation, …
View article: Developing and Managing Film-Related Tourism at Film Studios with the Design of Cultural and Heritage Features
Developing and Managing Film-Related Tourism at Film Studios with the Design of Cultural and Heritage Features Open
The concept of film-related tourism gained increasing recognition in the field of tourism research in the early 2000s, with knowledge derived primarily from case studies. Film studios are one of the most popular cases that are discussed an…
View article: Songlines Are for Singing: Un/Mapping the Lived Spaces of Travelling Memory
Songlines Are for Singing: Un/Mapping the Lived Spaces of Travelling Memory Open
Putting to work the dialectical concept of ‘un/mapping’, this paper examines the immateriality of cultural memory as coalescent in and around songlines: spatial stories woven from the autobiogeographical braiding of music and memory. Borro…
View article: Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space
Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space Open
Preface: in search of the north-west passage / Part I - SPACINGS / 1. Spatial anthropology / 2. Of spaces in-between / Part 2 - SOUNDINGS / 3. Castaway / 4. Stalker / Part 3 - GHOSTINGS / 5. Heterotopolis / 6. Songlines / 7. Necrogeography…
View article: Spatial Bricolage: The Art of Poetically Making Do
Spatial Bricolage: The Art of Poetically Making Do Open
This paper provides an introductory overview to the Humanities special issue on ‘spatial bricolage’. The individual contributions that make up the special issue are outlined and salient themes pulled out that address and respond to some th…
View article: The Question of Space: A Review Essay
The Question of Space: A Review Essay Open
This article is a review essay which discusses the inter-disciplinary collection of essays edited by Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch, titled The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines (London: Rowman & Li…
View article: Deep Mapping
Deep Mapping Open
His research interests and practice fall within the areas of spatial anthropology, urban cultural studies, cultural memory, and spatial humanities.With a background in anthropology and cultural studies, his work explores the intersection b…
View article: Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology
Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology Open
This paper provides an introduction to the Humanities Special Issue on “Deep Mapping”. It sets out the rationale for the collection and explores the broad-ranging nature of perspectives and practices that fall within the “undisciplined” in…