John Higham
Biographic Data
| ID | 117154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Higham |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Higham |
| SIGNATURE | HIGHAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1405-7035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 167 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 167 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Integrating heritage into a sport tourism typology
Heritage constitutes a fundamental dimension of sport tourism, shaping how sports are practiced, experienced, and consumed across places and cultures. Higham and Hinch’s (2018: Sport tourism development [3rd ed.]. Channel View Publications) sport tourism typology identifies heritage as a discrete category. In this conceptual article we argue that it should alternatively be embedded across all forms of sport tourism. Using Japan as a case context,…
Formation and development of tourism disaster management networks
Building destination resilience and preparing tourism businesses for disasters requires collaboration with emergency management agencies. This study investigates network formation and development during emergencies in Piopiotahi/Milford Sound and Tāhuna/Queenstown, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Using survey and interview data from tourism and emergency management stakeholders, it employs mixed methods Social Network Analysis to explore collaboration driv…
Carbon reduction policies of Japanese Olympic sports
This commentary examines carbon emission reduction policies among Japanese Olympic sports organisations in the context of growing expectations for climate action. Using document analysis, publicly available reports and strategic plans from 42 national Olympic sports organisations were reviewed and classified according to the depth of their decarbonisation commitments. Only six organisations explicitly address carbon emission reduction, with just …
On all fronts
We argue that aviation exceptionalism is both a demand side and a supply side problem. Despite exponential increases in demand for international air travel, plane makers have achieved only modest linear movement toward low carbon aviation technologies. Meanwhile, the global aviation regime has become adept at shaping user practices and culture to enable and encourage unconstrained air travel consumption. This has influenced the public’s perceptio…
Effectiveness and sustainability of collaborative networks in tourism disaster management
Tourism Disaster Management
Collaboration between tourism and emergency management organizations is critical for the safety of tourists and the communities they visit. Using a mixed methods social network approach, this study explores the practices and structural characteristics of tourism disaster management collaboration in Piopiotahi/Milford Sound and Tāhuna/Queenstown, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Our analysis reveals five types of collaborative relationships: acquaintance,…
Recasting sustainable summer holidaying
In the summer of 2020, COVID-19 border closures, travel restrictions, infection risks and other uncertainties forced many people to cancel or adapt their holiday plans. This disruption created an exceptional context to study home-based holidaying experiences, representing a departure from pre-pandemic habits and routinely rehearsed summer holiday scripts. Responding to a longstanding bias in tourism research towards (high-carbon) international tr…
Healthy persuasion
Healthy persuasion” is a public health social marketing strategy that aims to counter corporate efforts to drive the desire to consume products that cause negative individual (personal) and/or collective (social and/or environmental) health outcomes. In this paper, we argue that healthy persuasion might be usefully borrowed from public health and applied to leisure air travel (over) consumption to facilitate behaviour changes that past facts-base…
Switching off for the planet
The introduction of novel energy-saving practices for the peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation sector is a key factor in reducing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions in tourism and hospitality. "Surface mimicry" is an alternative visual intervention that may prove to be effective in saving energy in the P2P accommodation locations. Through the use of three scenario-based experiments, this study was able to validate the main effect of surface mimi…
An evidence-base for reducing the CO 2 emissions of national mega sports events
Reducing carbon emissions has emerged as an urgent sustainable tourism challenge for the organisers of global mega sports events. This study aims to contribute to the evidence-based for sustainable mega sports events, by examining the potential reduction in CO2 emissions related to the air travel of inbound tourists between each venue and prefecture of entry (airport) using the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup as a case study. We apply the “three-hub m…
Space tourism and sustainable trajectory
The state-of-the-art in sport tourism geographies
The geography of sport offers valuable theoretical and conceptual frames to inform the study of sport-related tourism. While all sports share fundamental aspects such as rule structures, elements of competition and aspects of physical play, the manifestations of these dimensions of sport are enormously diverse. Sport and tourism are socially constructed phenomena. The constant evolution of sports in different societies raise a spectacular array o…
Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions
Tourism has a critical role to play in global carbon emissions pathway. This study estimates the global tourism carbon footprint and identifies the key drivers using environmentally extended input-output modelling. The results indicate that global tourism emissions grew 3.5% p.a. between 2009-2019, double that of the worldwide economy, reaching 5.2 Gt CO2-e or 8.8% of total global GHG emissions in 2019. The primary drivers of emissions growth are…
Towards post-Covid-19 responsible academic air travel
Purpose This study aims to shape the future of academic air travel practices by identifying the challenges between existing air travel-related policies and practicing responsible air travel. Design/methodology/approach With increasing concern over global warming, many institutions have implemented sustainability programmes to tackle carbon emissions and create sustainable practices. COVID-19 has resulted in many universities seizing the opportuni…
Back to the future
Health hazards, border restrictions, insurance limitations, travel uncertainties, and other disruptions following the COVID-19 pandemic reduced international travel in the summer of 2021. The sudden travel changes created a unique opportunity to investigate potentials for reshaping future holidaying. The article’s objective is to investigate how experiences of domestic summer holidaying might have influenced attitudes towards future holiday trave…
Imagining post-fossil tourism mobilities with Norwegian tourists
Sustainable mobility has become a catch-all term to describe forms, modes, policies and practices of mobility that are thought to have a lower environmental footprint and/or fewer social exclusions than the contemporary mobility system which is reliant on fossil fuels and private ownership. As a result, its main application has been in urban mobility contexts, often focused on everyday commuting journeys. In this paper we re-visit sustainable mob…
Aeromasculinities and the fallacy of sustainable aviation
Despite growing recognition of the material impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use, many economic sectors remain highly dependent on these fuels. Amid growing pressure to - at a minimum - appear to be doing something, businesses increasingly communicate the actions they (seek to) take to reduce their environmental impacts. Oftentimes they aim to build a sense of compatible coexistence of the sector with particular modes of sustainability. For …
Air travel and persuasive climate communications
This study explores whether air travel attitudes can be changed through persuasive climate change communications. A 3 x 2 experimental design was utilized to test the impact of climate-framed messages on Australian tourists’ attitudes towards leisure air travel. The manipulations were persuasive advertisements framed around attitude functions, containing either central or peripheral message cues. The results indicate that utilitarian and value-ex…
Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after Covid-19
The paralysis of global tourism caused by COVID-19 made it possible to conduct a unique and nearly real-time online survey to investigate adaptations and reactions to sudden severe leisure travel restrictions among residents in the Oslo metropolitan area of Norway during the 2020 Easter/spring holiday period. Stress relief, socialising, social bonds and discoveries of local recreation options were important home holiday experiences. Vacation chal…
The impact of Covid-19 on academic aeromobility practices
Academics have long regarded air travel as vital to pursuing a successful career. Meanwhile, many academics are at the frontline of climate change science and advocate the urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The conflict between combating global warming and high aeromobility practices traps academics in a loop of hypocrisy. However, COVID-19 presents an opportunity for academics to advance their research and careers with reduced aeromobil…
Code red for sustainable tourism
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Carbon emission reduction and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Mega sports events must respond urgently to the climate crisis. • COVID travel restrictions reduced Tokyo Olympics Games transport CO 2 emissions. • Reduced attendance of Olympics-related personnel saved 129,686.0 tCO 2 emissions. • This reduction equates to 38.1% of the travel emissions of overseas spectators. • Minimising event-related personnel reduces gross sports event emissions
Co-creating ecological restoration experiences at Aotearoa (New Zealand) eco-sanctuaries
With the continuing biodiversity crisis in New Zealand, an increasing number of eco-sanctuaries have been established to restore local ecology through the active management of invasive predator species, in combination with the translocation of endangered endemic wildlife. Seeking to achieve the (near) complete restoration of pre-human ecosystems, many of these projects are community-led social enterprises where tourism is developed for operation …
History
No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does.--Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz. A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have.--Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware.
Send These to Me
John Higham, our most distinguished American social and intellectual historian, has the ability to integrate and synthesize superbly the latest scholarship on immigration and ethnic history and nativism.--Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Diversity and Its Discontents
Binge flying
Tourism, sport and seasons
Gender discourses in academic mobility
Despite increasing geographic mobility among academic staff, gendered patterns of involvement in academic mobility have largely escaped scrutiny. Positioned within literatures on internationalization, physical proximity, gender and parenthood in academic mobility and understandings of gender as a process enacted through both discursive and embodied practices, we use discourse analysis based on interviews with academics in New Zealand to examine d…
Canary in the coalmine
Practising academic mobilities
Notions of what a successful academic should be doing - researching, publishing, teaching, serving the academic community - are often dependent upon particular practices of corporeal mobilities. These practices discursively and materially connect historically situated academic mobilities with the "modern," globalised university system. At the same time, there is increasing attention being paid to the "hypocrisy of hypermobile academics" - often r…
Writing American History
Flights of fantasy
Travel discontinuities, enforced holidaying-at-home and alternative leisure travel futures after Covid-19
The paralysis of global tourism caused by COVID-19 made it possible to conduct a unique and nearly real-time online survey to investigate adaptations and reactions to sudden severe leisure travel restrictions among residents in the Oslo metropolitan area of Norway during the 2020 Easter/spring holiday period. Stress relief, socialising, social bonds and discoveries of local recreation options were important home holiday experiences. Vacation chal…
Sports fans, identity and socialization
Sports fans and sport fandoms offer a rich site of academic inquiry. If, as many suspect, sport has displaced religion as Marx's ‘opiate of the masses’, then this book promises intriguing insights
Tourism and wildlife habituation
Multiculturalism and Universalism
Climate science and tourism policy in Australasia
This paper reviews tourism-relevant advances in climate science and tourism policy in the Australasia region over the past 20 years, focusing particularly on the seven years (2015–2021) since the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Within the Australasia region, Australia and New Zealand have a complicated relationship with climate change, as both countries are dependent upon stable climates for tourism while contributing to high tourism greenhouse gas…
Overcoming information asymmetry in tourism carbon management
Up in the air’
Tourists and albatrosses
Aeromasculinities and the fallacy of sustainable aviation
Despite growing recognition of the material impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use, many economic sectors remain highly dependent on these fuels. Amid growing pressure to - at a minimum - appear to be doing something, businesses increasingly communicate the actions they (seek to) take to reduce their environmental impacts. Oftentimes they aim to build a sense of compatible coexistence of the sector with particular modes of sustainability. For …
Beyond the biosphere
Dominant sustainability discourses commonly situate Earth as the singular realm of human influence and position modern mobility as one of the primary means through which we are destroying the biosphere. The commercialisation of activities in outer space and the development of space tourism have resulted in drastically reduced launch costs, enabling an increased human presence beyond the biosphere. This paper argues that current debates concerning…
Managing the impacts of dolphin-based tourism through the definition of critical habitats
A Spatial Analysis of Commercial Ecotourism Businesses in New Zealand
New Zealand is renowned for ecotourism and nature tourism experiences, but, despite its importance, very little is known about the spatial development of ecotourism. Comprehensive benchmark information relating to commercial ecotourism operators in New Zealand does not currently exist. For the purposes of this research a New Zealand ecotourism operator database was analysed using the ArcGIS Geographical Information Systems computer software progr…
The Future of American History
Journal Article The Future of American History Get access John Higham John Higham professor of history emeritus Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1289-1309, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080601 Published: 01 March 1994
The work-sociology of academic aeromobility at remote institutions
Theoretically framed by the concepts of networks, co-presence and proximity, we explore the interplay of corporeal and virtual academic mobilities in the context of ‘remote institutions’ to advance the work-sociology of aeromobility at a time of climate crisis. Empirical insights are drawn from 31 in-depth interviews conducted with academic staff at the University of Otago (New Zealand), to explore the complex personal and professional decisions …
Foundations of Historical Knowledge
Journal Article Foundations of Historical Knowledge. By Morton White. (New York: Harper & Row, 1965. 299 pp. Notes and index. $6.95.) Get access John Higham John Higham University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 4, March 1966, Pages 809–810, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894351 Published: 01 March 1966
American Intellectual History
Ecological restoration and visitor experiences
The development of eco-sanctuaries has been an important response to the biodiversity crisis in New Zealand. They combine intensive predator control and biodiversity conservation, with a particular focus on endangered endemic wildlife within the local ecosystems. Tourism has been harnessed to fund conservation efforts, raising important questions about the experiences of visitors to eco-sanctuaries. This paper explores international visitors’ per…
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
Journal Article The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. By Daniel J. Boorstin. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1948. xi + 306 pp. Index. $4.00.) Get access John Higham John Higham University of California at Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 36, Issue 1, June 1949, Pages 133–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/1895715 Published: 01 June 1949
The American Party, 1886-1891
Research Article| February 01 1950 The American Party, 1886-1891 John Higham John Higham Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1950) 19 (1): 37–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/3635098 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John Higha…
Origins of Immigration Restriction, 1882-1897
Origins of Immigration Restriction, 1882–1897: A Social Analysis John Higham John Higham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 39, Issue 1, June 1952, Pages 77–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902845 Published: 01 June 1952
The Irony of American History
The Irony of American History. By Reinhold Niebuhr. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. xi + 174 pp. $2.50.) John Higham John Higham University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 39, Issue 2, September 1952, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892226 Published: 01 September 1952
The Mind of a Nativist
AMONG the interests of contemporary social science, the problem of why men hate ranks very high. Research in this field has centered chiefly on the antagonisms between nations, between classes, and most of all between ethnic groups. Animosities of an overtly religious character have received far less attention from the social scientists of a strongly secularized period. The study of religious hatreds has remained largely in the keeping of histori…
The Refugee Intellectual
The Refugee Intellectual: The Americanization of the Immigrants of 1933– 1941. By Donald Peterson Kent. Foreword by E. P. Hutchinson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1953. xx + 317 pp. Tables, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $5.00.) John Higham John Higham University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 40, Issue 3, December 1953, Pages 5…
The American People in the Twentieth Century
The American People in the Twentieth Century. By Oscar Handlin. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. xii + 244 pp. Notes and index. $3.75.) Get access John Higham John Higham Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 41, Issue 3, December 1954, Pages 544–545, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897534 Published: 01 December 1954
Intellectual History and Its Neighbors
On the Nature of History
Journal Article On the Nature of History: Essays about History and Dissidence. By James C. Malin. (Lawrence, Kansas: The Author, 1954. vii + 290 pp. Lithoprinted from typescript. Notes. $3.00, paper cover.) Get access John Higham John Higham Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 42, Issue 2, September 1955, Pages 310–311, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897646 Publ…
Strangers in the Land
Higham's work stands as the seminal work in the history of American nativism. The work is a careful, well-documented study of nationalism and ethnic prejudice, and chronicles the power and violence of these two ideas in American society from 1860 to 1925. He significantly moves beyond previous treatments of nativism, both in chronology and in interpretive sophistication. Higham defines nativism as a defensive type of nationalism or intense opposi…
The Irish in America
Journal Article The Irish in America. By Carl Wittke. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956. xii + 319 pp. Bibliography and index. $5.00.) Get access John Higham John Higham Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 43, Issue 2, November 1956, Pages 325–326, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902712 Published: 01 November 1956
Strangers in the Land
Journal Article Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925. By John Higham. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1955. xiv + 431 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $6.00.) Get access Edward N. Saveth Edward N. Saveth The New School for Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 42, Issue 4, March 1956, Pages 766–767, https:/…
Strangers in the Land
Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age
Journal Article Anti-Semitism in the Gilded Age: A Reinterpretation Get access John Higham John Higham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 43, Issue 4, March 1957, Pages 559–578, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902273 Published: 01 March 1957
The Emergence of Liberal Catholicism in America
Journal Article The Emergence of Liberal Catholicism in America. By Robert D. Cross. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. xiv + 328 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $5.50.) Get access John Higham John Higham Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 45, Issue 2, September 1958, Pages 350–351, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902967 Published: 01 September 1958
From Immigrants to Minorities
Boston's Immigrants
Roman Catholicism and the American Way of Life
Journal Article Roman Catholicism and the American Way of Life. Edited by Thomas T. McAvoy. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1960. viii + 248 pp. Notes and index. $4.50.) Get access John Higham John Higham University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 2, September 1960, Pages 348–349, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891745 Published: 01 September …
Essays in American Historiography
Journal Article Essays in American Historiography: Papers Presented in Honor of Allan Nevins. Edited by Donald Sheehan and Harold C. Syrett. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. xii + 320 pp. Illustration, notes, and index. $6.00.) Get access John Higham John Higham Princeton Council of the Humanities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 48, Issue 1, June 1961, Pages 1…
American Intellectual History
John Fiske
The Reconstruction of American History
Journal Article The Reconstruction of American History. Edited by John Higham. (New York: The Humanities Press, 1962. 244 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $6.50.) Get access Francis P. Weisenburger Francis P. Weisenburger Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 49, Issue 2, September 1962, Pages 362–363, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888671 Published: 01 Sept…
Communications
Journal Article Communications Get access John Higham, John Higham University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oscar Handlin, Oscar Handlin Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Levin David Levin Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 49, Issue 2, …
Generalization in the Writing of History
Journal Article Generalization in the Writing of History: A Report of the Committee on Historical Analysis of the Social Science Research Council. Edited by Louis Gottschalk. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1963. xiv + 255 pp. Notes and index. $5.00.) John Higham John Higham University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 50, Issue 2, September 1963, Pa…
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