Tracey Potts
Biographic Data
| ID | 1431975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracey Potts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracey |
| FAMILY NAME | Potts |
| SIGNATURE | POTTS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Going underground
This paper explores the neglected topic of subterranean tourism and seeks to distinguish the particular factors that continue to lure tourists to underground attractions. Through a literature review and research of numerous sites, we identify three key themes through which underground tourism has remained alluring, namely an enduring desire to visit formerly inaccessible or forbidden spaces, the vivid depictions of subterranean worlds stoked by l…
Investigating Wiradjuri marara (carved trees or dendroglyphs) and dhabuganha (burials) in the Central Tablelands, southeastern Australia
Marara (carved trees, dendroglyphs or tapholgyphs) are a distinct part of Wiradjuri Country in southeastern Australia. Each marara displays a unique muyalaang (tree carving) that a Wiradjuri person carved into the outer surface of a tree after removing bark. Marara mark the dhabuganha (burials) of Wiradjuri men of high standing, representing part of traditional cultural practices that extend into the deep past. Yet, the meaning of these sacred lo…
Popular Culture
This year’s chapter explores themes of consumption, popular culture, and sustainability in publications from 2018. Starting with the biggest issue we face today—climate change—the aim is to survey and complicate the picture of the consumer and consumer culture by way of refusing some of the more glib accounts of over-consumption. The heavy lifting of the discussion is accomplished by an article that dissects recent scholarship around consumer pra…
Popular Culture
This year’s chapter focuses upon the sights, sounds, shadows, and apparitions of modernity, in books mainly published in 2017. Beginning with popular music before moving on to a tour through the bright lights of the twentieth century and ending with a ghostly tale of a talking mongoose, the aim is to illuminate titles that place a premium upon new ways of seeing what have come to be perceived as standard features of pop culture. In particular, st…
A Feminist Menagerie
This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environments-the home, the skies, the seas and the microscopic-to examine the work that various figures do in these contexts. We elucidate how diverse figures-ranging from companion animals to birds, undersea …
Popular Culture
This year’s chapter looks at books published in the field of popular culture in 2016 and steers a course through contemporary and historical popular culture. The emphasis across the sample, which ranges from texts dealing with digital media, such as memes and algorithms, to through to sound, noise and popular music, before ending with a reassessment of the Frankfurt School, is upon the appropriateness of accepted Cultural Studies approaches and f…
(Dis)entangling Barad
In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or invested in this body of work. We examine Barad's use of quantum physics, which underpins her conception of the material world. We discuss the political strengths of this position but also note tensions asso…
Tidy house, tidy mind? Non-human agency in the hoarding situation
Dark tourism' and the 'kitschification' of 9/11
This article aims to interrogate the framing of New York's Ground Zero as a 'dark tourist' destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of 11 September 2001. What makes Ground Zero contentious, even scandalous, for many scholars is the presence of a conspicuous commodity culture around the site in the form of tourist souvenirs, leading to accusations of kitschification of me…
Daughtering and mothering
(Dis)entangling Barad
In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or invested in this body of work. We examine Barad's use of quantum physics, which underpins her conception of the material world. We discuss the political strengths of this position but also note tensions asso…
Dark tourism' and the 'kitschification' of 9/11
This article aims to interrogate the framing of New York's Ground Zero as a 'dark tourist' destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of 11 September 2001. What makes Ground Zero contentious, even scandalous, for many scholars is the presence of a conspicuous commodity culture around the site in the form of tourist souvenirs, leading to accusations of kitschification of me…
A Feminist Menagerie
This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environments-the home, the skies, the seas and the microscopic-to examine the work that various figures do in these contexts. We elucidate how diverse figures-ranging from companion animals to birds, undersea …
Daughtering and mothering
Investigating Wiradjuri marara (carved trees or dendroglyphs) and dhabuganha (burials) in the Central Tablelands, southeastern Australia
Marara (carved trees, dendroglyphs or tapholgyphs) are a distinct part of Wiradjuri Country in southeastern Australia. Each marara displays a unique muyalaang (tree carving) that a Wiradjuri person carved into the outer surface of a tree after removing bark. Marara mark the dhabuganha (burials) of Wiradjuri men of high standing, representing part of traditional cultural practices that extend into the deep past. Yet, the meaning of these sacred lo…
Daughtering and mothering
Dark tourism' and the 'kitschification' of 9/11
This article aims to interrogate the framing of New York's Ground Zero as a 'dark tourist' destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of 11 September 2001. What makes Ground Zero contentious, even scandalous, for many scholars is the presence of a conspicuous commodity culture around the site in the form of tourist souvenirs, leading to accusations of kitschification of me…
Tidy house, tidy mind? Non-human agency in the hoarding situation
Popular Culture
This year’s chapter looks at books published in the field of popular culture in 2016 and steers a course through contemporary and historical popular culture. The emphasis across the sample, which ranges from texts dealing with digital media, such as memes and algorithms, to through to sound, noise and popular music, before ending with a reassessment of the Frankfurt School, is upon the appropriateness of accepted Cultural Studies approaches and f…
(Dis)entangling Barad
In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or invested in this body of work. We examine Barad's use of quantum physics, which underpins her conception of the material world. We discuss the political strengths of this position but also note tensions asso…
Popular Culture
This year’s chapter focuses upon the sights, sounds, shadows, and apparitions of modernity, in books mainly published in 2017. Beginning with popular music before moving on to a tour through the bright lights of the twentieth century and ending with a ghostly tale of a talking mongoose, the aim is to illuminate titles that place a premium upon new ways of seeing what have come to be perceived as standard features of pop culture. In particular, st…
A Feminist Menagerie
This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environments-the home, the skies, the seas and the microscopic-to examine the work that various figures do in these contexts. We elucidate how diverse figures-ranging from companion animals to birds, undersea …
Popular Culture
This year’s chapter explores themes of consumption, popular culture, and sustainability in publications from 2018. Starting with the biggest issue we face today—climate change—the aim is to survey and complicate the picture of the consumer and consumer culture by way of refusing some of the more glib accounts of over-consumption. The heavy lifting of the discussion is accomplished by an article that dissects recent scholarship around consumer pra…
Investigating Wiradjuri marara (carved trees or dendroglyphs) and dhabuganha (burials) in the Central Tablelands, southeastern Australia
Marara (carved trees, dendroglyphs or tapholgyphs) are a distinct part of Wiradjuri Country in southeastern Australia. Each marara displays a unique muyalaang (tree carving) that a Wiradjuri person carved into the outer surface of a tree after removing bark. Marara mark the dhabuganha (burials) of Wiradjuri men of high standing, representing part of traditional cultural practices that extend into the deep past. Yet, the meaning of these sacred lo…
Going underground
This paper explores the neglected topic of subterranean tourism and seeks to distinguish the particular factors that continue to lure tourists to underground attractions. Through a literature review and research of numerous sites, we identify three key themes through which underground tourism has remained alluring, namely an enduring desire to visit formerly inaccessible or forbidden spaces, the vivid depictions of subterranean worlds stoked by l…
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