Peter O’connor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 211201 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter O’connor |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | O’connor |
| FIRMA | O’CONNOR P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4245-3473 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 187 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Destination experience and design
This study examines the effects of destination experience and perceived destination design on visitor satisfaction, engagement behavior, and revisit intention. While past research emphasizes satisfaction as a key factor for revisit behavior, this study also considers visitor engagement behaviors such as augmentation (e.g. social media posting), co-development (e.g. providing ideas), influence (e.g. peer recommendation), and mobilization (e.g. con…
Mitey
Mitey is the first whole-school mental health education approach in Aotearoa New Zealand to be shaped by peer-reviewed research and underpinned by a bicultural framework. The approach draws on Māori concepts of mental wellness—framed through dimensions of mana—and weaves these with Western perspectives that align with the national curriculum. This paper presents findings from an evaluation of Mitey after four years of implementation. In response …
Introduction
The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn
Dutch Starting
Unpacking risk aversion and uncertainty avoidance
Tourists’ behaviours are significantly affected by their risk aversion and uncertainty avoidance. However, several studies found that these two traits are often used interchangeably. Using partial-least-squares structural equation modelling to analyse data obtained from 386 Chinese residents, this paper unpacks how two concepts relate to tourists’ personality traits and their various information search behaviours. While results confirm similariti…
The skater’s ear
The dark side of applying Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology
The "Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology" (UTAUT) has been extensively employed to discover the factors driving positive adoption of new technologies. However, there is a lack of research on the potential adverse effects of UTAUT driving factors on user behavior. This study aims to fill this research gap by investigating the negative behavioral intentions of food delivery application (FDA) users based on a questionnaire administere…
Artificial intelligence’s impact on hospitality and tourism marketing
Understanding how Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts organizational functions supports stakeholders to prepare accordingly and profit from these developments. Adopting a grounded theory approach, this study uses three interlinked stages (in-depth interviews, focus groups and a questionnaire-based survey) to explore the impact of AI on the marketing function of hotels. The results identify ten trends related to AI’s contribution to hotel marketi…
Non-fungible tokens and hotel distribution
Immersive virtual reality experiences
Natural world heritage sites as destinations can have multiple orientations, namely cognitive (learning), affective (hedonism), and sustainability (nature). This study investigates how potential visitors can be attracted to such destinations using virtual reality (VR). Using the Sundarbans mangrove forest (Bangladesh) as a case, and adopting customer engagement and TAM as underlying theories, we collect data from 316 subjects to investigate how e…
Chicano Park’s Skateboard Memorial Murals
This paper explores the transformation of murals at San Diego’s Chicano Park Skatepark into sites of spiritual struggle. We observe the extension of spiritual identification through skateboarding as a leisure pursuit that is woven with the symbols of Chicano identity. We frame our discussion through the material and symbolic paradigm of pol- luted leisure, since the park is both contaminated by heavy industry and othered through its ethnic compos…
Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding
This conceptual paper elaborates on the paradigm of 'grey spaces' in skateboarding. It presents the fundamentals of the grey spaces concept as a bond between the material and symbolic and provides three core arguments. Firstly, it suggests that the simplicity of the concept works to make the complexity of skateboarding accessible. In doing so it opens the opportunity to bond elements of research on skateboarding to other lifestyle and action spor…
Creative Self-Beliefs Among Children and Adolescents
Young people’s confidence in their creative abilities, as well as their beliefs about whether these abilities are fixed or malleable, play potentially important roles in educators’ efforts to foster creativity. This study explores a multidimensional model of young people’s creative self-beliefs that comprises creative self-efficacy, growth-creative mindsets, and fixed-creative mindsets. It operationalizes and tests this model via a new three-fact…
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene
This paper explores a symbolic environmental schema of skateboarding through the concept of ‘grey spaces’. We provide evidence of how skateboarding demonstrates a greyness – political and environmental ambiguities, contradictions, liminality, nuances and paradoxes – to outdoor urban leisure in the Anthropocene. We build on a chromatic turn in leisure studies which attends to blue and green spaces; however, we shift focus from the therapeutic disc…
The sonic spectrums of skateboarding
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Covid-19’s effects on future pro-environmental traveler behavior
This study examines how the COVID-19 pandemic will influence people’s pro-environmental travel behavior (PETB) and potentially prompt more ecological/sustainable future travel. A comprehensive model using the norm-activation model (NAM), economic sacrifices theory, and the perceived risks associated with COVID-19 is presented and tested using structural equation modeling on data collected from US travelers during April 2020. The results revealed …
Te Rito Toi in New Zealand
Te Rito Toi is an online open access educational resource designed to help teachers respond to the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic and provide all children with opportunities to engage with the arts. Central to the Te Rito Toi project was the concept of well-being, one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SGD 3). The study reported in this article delved into the perspectives of a group of New Zealand educators who use…
Resourcing the arts for youth well-being
New approaches to resourcing youth arts for well-being are needed to better support good practice and sector development
Defending the indefensible
Chinese women skateboarders in Hong Kong
This paper conceptualises the experiences of Hong Kong Chinese women skateboarders through the emergent concept of skatefeminism. It responds to the recent global growth and transformation of women's skateboarding as a visible and promoted part of the sportification and industry of skateboarding. Notably the rise in visibility and inclusion of women's skateboarding has coincided with an active debate on issues of social justice and sexual identit…
Whiteness out of place
We identify a missing narrative about the place of whiteness in post-colonial Hong Kong. Using an anthropological framework developed by Mary Douglas, we show how white migrants who try to integrate their children into local Cantonese medium of instruction schools are challenged by recurring obstacles that highlight their whiteness and signal them as 'matter out of place' by transgressing colonial assumptions about whiteness in the territory. In …
Gregory J. Snyder
Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008
Made in Britain
"Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America." American Nineteenth Century History, 22(1), pp. 107–108
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene
This paper explores a symbolic environmental schema of skateboarding through the concept of ‘grey spaces’. We provide evidence of how skateboarding demonstrates a greyness – political and environmental ambiguities, contradictions, liminality, nuances and paradoxes – to outdoor urban leisure in the Anthropocene. We build on a chromatic turn in leisure studies which attends to blue and green spaces; however, we shift focus from the therapeutic disc…
Skateboarding, Helmets, and Control
Skateboarding has a global reach and will be included for the first time in the 2020 Olympic Games. It has transformed from a subcultural pursuit to a mainstream and popular sport. This research looks at some of the challenges posed by the opening of a new skatepark in Hong Kong and the introduction of a mandatory helmet rule. It explores attitudes to helmets in skateboard media, the local government, and among the skateboarders who use the new s…
Information Communication Technology Revolutionizing Tourism
This paper identifies a number of key changes in Information Communication Technologies (ICT) that gradually revolutionize the tourism industry. E-tourism and the Internet in particular support the interactivity between tourism enterprises and consumers and as a result they re-engineer the entire process of developing, managing and marketing tourism products and destinations. All stakeholders related to tourism and hospitality, therefore, gradual…
Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding
This conceptual paper elaborates on the paradigm of 'grey spaces' in skateboarding. It presents the fundamentals of the grey spaces concept as a bond between the material and symbolic and provides three core arguments. Firstly, it suggests that the simplicity of the concept works to make the complexity of skateboarding accessible. In doing so it opens the opportunity to bond elements of research on skateboarding to other lifestyle and action spor…
Take Me Back
Although fields such as e-commerce, information systems, and computer-mediated communication (CMC) acknowledge the importance of validity, validating research tools or measures in these domains seems the exception rather than the rule. This article extends the concept of validation to one of an emerging genre of web-based tools that provide new measures, the Wayback Machine (WM). Drawing in part on social science tests of validity, the study prog…
Hong Kong Skateboarding and Network Capital
The importance of East Asia to the skateboard industry is multifaceted. It represents a dense commercial asset where the 'cool' of skateboarding can be leveraged for consumption. It is also a global resource for touring professional skateboarders visiting countries such as China, Korea, and Japan to film and photograph their tricks in new locations. The success of such strategies are entwined with a regional network of skateboarders, a group whos…
Beyond the youth culture
Responding to the call of Wheaton to discuss the position of older participants in lifestyle sports, this research presents an analysis of the experiences of middle-aged skateboarders. Through qualitative interviews, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis of skateboard media, skateboarding is revealed to be an integral part of the biographies and identities of middle-aged skateboarders. These accounts challenge the imaging of skateboard…
Chicano Park’s Skateboard Memorial Murals
This paper explores the transformation of murals at San Diego’s Chicano Park Skatepark into sites of spiritual struggle. We observe the extension of spiritual identification through skateboarding as a leisure pursuit that is woven with the symbols of Chicano identity. We frame our discussion through the material and symbolic paradigm of pol- luted leisure, since the park is both contaminated by heavy industry and othered through its ethnic compos…
The sonic spectrums of skateboarding
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Chinese women skateboarders in Hong Kong
This paper conceptualises the experiences of Hong Kong Chinese women skateboarders through the emergent concept of skatefeminism. It responds to the recent global growth and transformation of women's skateboarding as a visible and promoted part of the sportification and industry of skateboarding. Notably the rise in visibility and inclusion of women's skateboarding has coincided with an active debate on issues of social justice and sexual identit…
Whiteness out of place
We identify a missing narrative about the place of whiteness in post-colonial Hong Kong. Using an anthropological framework developed by Mary Douglas, we show how white migrants who try to integrate their children into local Cantonese medium of instruction schools are challenged by recurring obstacles that highlight their whiteness and signal them as 'matter out of place' by transgressing colonial assumptions about whiteness in the territory. In …
Negotiating global citizenship, protecting privilege
We examine school choices made by western expatriate parents in post-colonial Hong Kong in order to understand the essence of imagined global citizenship and its implications for existing ethnic and class inequalities in the education system. Responding to changes in the global job market, a small but increasingly visible group of parents are seeking to challenge what they see as the constraints of expatriate life by developing global opportuniti…
Accepting Prejudice and Valuing Freedom
This paper shows how the experiences of young Muslims in Hong Kong reveal an alternative account of multiculturalism to that which is often portrayed in works about young Muslims in the West. It presents the everyday multicultural experiences of young people as an important resource to understand the lived experience of ethnic and religious diversity. This discussion is framed by the experiences of a multiethnic sample of young Muslims in Hong Ko…
Online distribution of airline tickets
Unpacking risk aversion and uncertainty avoidance
Tourists’ behaviours are significantly affected by their risk aversion and uncertainty avoidance. However, several studies found that these two traits are often used interchangeably. Using partial-least-squares structural equation modelling to analyse data obtained from 386 Chinese residents, this paper unpacks how two concepts relate to tourists’ personality traits and their various information search behaviours. While results confirm similariti…
Immersive virtual reality experiences
Natural world heritage sites as destinations can have multiple orientations, namely cognitive (learning), affective (hedonism), and sustainability (nature). This study investigates how potential visitors can be attracted to such destinations using virtual reality (VR). Using the Sundarbans mangrove forest (Bangladesh) as a case, and adopting customer engagement and TAM as underlying theories, we collect data from 316 subjects to investigate how e…
Everyday Hybridity and Hong Kong's Muslim Youth
This article explores hybrid Hong Kong through empirical representation of the territory's cultural mix and fusion. The research applies the concept of everyday hybridity that seeks to engage with the quotidian aspects of intercultural exchange and multiculturalism. Young Muslims in Hong Kong provide the focus for the enquiry and represent everyday scenarios of hybridity connected to themes of identity, urban space and fasting during Ramadan. Imp…
Sharing 'worlds of risk'; improving communication with crew resource management
In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on the role of context and culture in shaping both the perception and experience of risk. Evidence from a number of industrial psychology studies indicates that workers' perceptions of risk are influenced by the context and culture of their work environment, leading to different 'worlds of risk' between professional groups and levels of seniority within the work organization. If perception of r…
The dark side of applying Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology
The "Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology" (UTAUT) has been extensively employed to discover the factors driving positive adoption of new technologies. However, there is a lack of research on the potential adverse effects of UTAUT driving factors on user behavior. This study aims to fill this research gap by investigating the negative behavioral intentions of food delivery application (FDA) users based on a questionnaire administere…
Response to “Adult Literacy
The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn
Dutch Starting
Rhythmanalysis as a tool in social analysis on ethnicity in Hong Kong
This article applies Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis to an exploration of ethnicity in Hong Kong. It argues that rhythmanalysis has tended to be used in social geography, architectural research, and cultural studies and has been overlooked as a methodological tool in regard to ethnicity. An historic narrative of ethnic diversity in Hong Kong is contrasted with contemporary transformations. It is argued that rhythmanalysis presents an a…
The American experiment and the idea of democracy in British culture, 1776–1914
Hong Kong Muslims on Hajj
The pilgrimage to Mecca is an often-overlooked topic in the study of Muslim minorities. This work looks at the experiences of Muslims in Hong Kong who make up a multi-ethnic community situated in a densely populated urban metropolis in China. As a small community, these Muslims are free from the constraints of the hajj quota system that most countries are subjected to. The organisation and experiences of these pilgrims is contrasted with recent d…
Applying hybridity
Hybridity has long been a contested term, critiqued as elitist and contradictory. This paper begins by arguing that hybridity has been debated too often and applied too seldom. It takes the premise that hybridity is an everyday fact of life and accordingly it should be articulated in academic works as a mode of analysis. In acknowledging works that call for the utilization of hybridity’s analytical potential this work applies hybridity to the ana…
Bauman Pours Out Culture
A review of Zygmunt Bauman, Culture in a Liquid Modern World (Polity, 2011
A Study of Attitudes of Applicants for Training as Voluntary Marriage Counsellors
Fifty people applying for training as marriage counsellors in a non-academic course at a voluntary marriage guidance council were administered a series of psychological tests which included the Anderson-Western Attitude Inventory. Members of a selection team also rated the suitability of each applicant on a ten-point scale
Privatisation and Welfare Services
This paper traces some of the persistent criticisms which have attended welfare provision in Australia and many other western industrialised nations over the past twenty years. Clearly, the most concerted attacks on the welfare system have come from the radical Right, who are becoming more adept at manipulating and hijacking the language and sentiments of supporters of welfare. The paper argues that the welfare crisis debate, of which privatisati…
Electronic Information Distribution in Tourism and Hospitality
Response to “Adult Literacy
Sharing 'worlds of risk'; improving communication with crew resource management
In recent years, increasing emphasis has been placed on the role of context and culture in shaping both the perception and experience of risk. Evidence from a number of industrial psychology studies indicates that workers' perceptions of risk are influenced by the context and culture of their work environment, leading to different 'worlds of risk' between professional groups and levels of seniority within the work organization. If perception of r…
Thoughts on the precipice
(2001). Thoughts on the precipice: Japanese postcards, c.1903–39. Japan Forum: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 55-62
Information Communication Technology Revolutionizing Tourism
This paper identifies a number of key changes in Information Communication Technologies (ICT) that gradually revolutionize the tourism industry. E-tourism and the Internet in particular support the interactivity between tourism enterprises and consumers and as a result they re-engineer the entire process of developing, managing and marketing tourism products and destinations. All stakeholders related to tourism and hospitality, therefore, gradual…
Take Me Back
Although fields such as e-commerce, information systems, and computer-mediated communication (CMC) acknowledge the importance of validity, validating research tools or measures in these domains seems the exception rather than the rule. This article extends the concept of validation to one of an emerging genre of web-based tools that provide new measures, the Wayback Machine (WM). Drawing in part on social science tests of validity, the study prog…
Keynote
(2007). KEYNOTE: Applied Theatre: Pure of heart—Naively Complicit. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 53, The Idieri Papers: The Fifth International Drama in Education Research Institute. Guest Editor Brian Heap, pp. 23-36
User-Generated Content and Travel
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008
Accepting Prejudice and Valuing Freedom
This paper shows how the experiences of young Muslims in Hong Kong reveal an alternative account of multiculturalism to that which is often portrayed in works about young Muslims in the West. It presents the everyday multicultural experiences of young people as an important resource to understand the lived experience of ethnic and religious diversity. This discussion is framed by the experiences of a multiethnic sample of young Muslims in Hong Ko…
Online distribution of airline tickets
Everyday Hybridity and Hong Kong's Muslim Youth
This article explores hybrid Hong Kong through empirical representation of the territory's cultural mix and fusion. The research applies the concept of everyday hybridity that seeks to engage with the quotidian aspects of intercultural exchange and multiculturalism. Young Muslims in Hong Kong provide the focus for the enquiry and represent everyday scenarios of hybridity connected to themes of identity, urban space and fasting during Ramadan. Imp…
Islam in Hong Kong
More than a quarter of a million Muslims live and work in Hong Kong. Among them are descendants of families who have been in the city for generations, recent immigrants from around the world, and growing numbers of migrant workers. Islam in Hong Kong explores the lives of Muslims as ethnic and religious minorities in this unique post-colonial Chinese city. Drawing on interviews with Muslims of different origins, O'Connor builds a detailed picture…
The American Civil War in the shaping of British Democracy
Research with, by, for and about Children
There is a need for critically informed studies that include children's perspectives on the role of children in disaster contexts, given the increased incidence of disasters resulting from the global forces of climate change. Three case studies are presented from two different disaster contexts in Australia and New Zealand, where the notion of child empowerment fits within the broader political culture of liberal democracy. Each of these case stu…
Pedagogy of love and care
Purpose – The 22 February 2011 series of earthquakes that devastated large parts of the Canterbury region of New Zealand provides the dramatic backdrop to this paper, which explores the manner in which schools responded and recovered from the quakes. Drawing on interviews held 18 months later with principals, teachers and students, practical suggestions for how schools can manage risk, and prepare for future similar events are made. The manner in…
Applying hybridity
Hybridity has long been a contested term, critiqued as elitist and contradictory. This paper begins by arguing that hybridity has been debated too often and applied too seldom. It takes the premise that hybridity is an everyday fact of life and accordingly it should be articulated in academic works as a mode of analysis. In acknowledging works that call for the utilization of hybridity’s analytical potential this work applies hybridity to the ana…
Patients and agents
O'Connor reviews the book Patients and agents: mental illness, modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh, by Alyson Callan
The American experiment and the idea of democracy in British culture, 1776–1914
Hong Kong Muslims on Hajj
The pilgrimage to Mecca is an often-overlooked topic in the study of Muslim minorities. This work looks at the experiences of Muslims in Hong Kong who make up a multi-ethnic community situated in a densely populated urban metropolis in China. As a small community, these Muslims are free from the constraints of the hajj quota system that most countries are subjected to. The organisation and experiences of these pilgrims is contrasted with recent d…
Watched and Watching
O'Connor reviews the book Liquid Surveillance, by Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon.\nIn recent years Zygmunt Bauman has released several co-authored books that take the form of a conversation. In this latest offering he joins with David Lyon, Professor of Sociology from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, to debate the social consequences of surveillance. Bauman's thesis about the liquid-modern world, of which insecurity and impermanence are eeri…
Hong Kong Muslim representations in Cantonese media
The introduction of anti-racism legislation and post-colonial debate on Hong Kong identity has developed a stronger recognition of multiculturalism in Hong Kong. Muslims, who have had a continuous presence in the territory for over 170 years, are, however, still little understood. This paper looks at the ways in which local Cantonese media represents Muslims and how this representation continues to obscure Islam and present it as an oriental “oth…
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