Exploring the tourist destination as a mosaic: The alternative lifecycles of the seaside amusement arcade sector in Britain. International Review of Social Research, 6 (2), 61-72. Interrogating spaces of and for the dead as ‘alternative space’: cemeteries, corpses and sites of Dark Tourism. Stakeholder engagement in coastal sustainability transitions: An emerging research agenda. ‘It’s not that we like death or anything’: exploring the motivations and experiences of visitors to a lighter dark tourism attraction. Naming rights, place branding, and the tumultuous cultural landscapes of neoliberal urbanism. Rose-Redwood, R., Vuolteenaho, J., Young, C. Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea, 19 (4), 565-584. Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum. Flags, society and space: Towards a research agenda for vexillgeography. Medway, D., Light, D., Warnaby, G., Byrom, J. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 22 (4), 465-477. Introduction: Changing Tourism in the Cities of Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. Exploring “gothic tourism”: a new form of urban tourism? International Journal of Tourism Cities, 7 (1), 224-236. Museums and transitional justice: assessing the impact of a memorial museum on young people in post-communist romania. The disposal of cremation ashes in tourism settings: practices, impacts and management. Thanatopsis and mortality mediation in "lightest" dark tourism. Coastal Studies and Society, 1 (1), 34-54. The neglected heritage of the English seaside holiday. Dracula tourism in Romania Cultural identity and the state. Performing Transylvania: Tourism, fantasy and play in a liminal place. The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania. Tourism Geographies: an international journal of tourism place, space and the environment, 16 (1), 141-156. Tourism and toponymy: Commodifying and Consuming Place Names. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104 (3), 668-685. Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania. Exploring women’s employment in tourism under state-socialism: Experiences of tourism work in socialist Romania. Working with the carnivalesque at the seaside: Transgression and misbehaviour in a tourism workplace. Progress in dark tourism and thanatourism research: An uneasy relationship with heritage tourism.
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Encountering the victims of Romanian communism: young people and empathy in a memorial museum. Annals of Tourism Research, 81.Ĭrețan, R., Light, D., Richards, S. Dwelling-mobility: A theory of the existential pull between home and away. COVID-19 in Romania: transnational labour, geopolitics, and the Roma ‘outsiders’. Heritage attractions, competitive pressures and adaptation: the case of the British seaside pier. Transitional justice and the political ‘work’ of domestic tourism. I also have an unexplainable fascination with street names. We are examining the intersections of travel, memory and identity among German Romanians who have emigrated to Germany but who annually take holidays in Romania specifically to visit the cemeteries where their relatives are buried.įourth, I have broader interests in the relationships between public memory, urban landscapes and national identity. In particular, I am working with Prof Remus Cretan from Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara to examine visiting visits to rural cemeteries in the Banat region of Western Romania. Third, I am interested in cemeteries as places to visit. Working with colleagues from Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara, I am exploring 'memory tourism' in museums dedicated to communist repression, and the ways in which visitors interact with, and negotiate, the messages they encounter. Second I am researching the role of tourism in the remembrance of communism in Romania.
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My book 'The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania' (Routledge, 2016) explores how Romania has negotiated this dilemma over the past 40 years (in both communist and post-communist contexts. Dracula presents Romania with a unique dilemma: on one hand it can generate much needed foreign currency through tourism, but on the other hand it fundamentally collides with Romania's sense of its own political and cultural identity. My recent research has focused on 'Dracula tourism' in Romania. There are 4 strands to my current research:įirst, I am interested in the cultural politics of tourism.