Felicity Picken
Biographic Data
| ID | 2455577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicity Picken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicity |
| FAMILY NAME | Picken |
| SIGNATURE | PICKEN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6717-5145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tourism and the blue economy
The blue economy is formally recognized by the United Nations as a term that aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of economic activity that takes place within or through ocean and freshwater bodies of water. Optimally, the blue economy subscribes to sustainable economic principles and a set of guidelines to ensure the protection of all marine and freshwater resources and ecosystem services. All marine forms of tourism, coastal tourism an…
Innovative local response to cyclone damaged reef leads to rapid tourism recovery
Climate change poses substantial risks to natural and human systems and effective response is essential. Underwater sculptures have been installed at multiple global locations to restore damaged reefs, increase tourism and educate visitors. There has been limited research that evaluates the environmental, social, cultural and economic costs of impacts such as cyclones and interventions such as underwater sculptures. Thisresearch investigated the …
Exploring emotional reflexivity in British lifestyle migration to Australia
In this paper, we explore narratives from interviews with British migrants who had shifted to Australia seeking a better way of life. Framed through the conceptual paradigm of lifestyle migration, we argue in this paper that pivotal to this late‐modern phenomenon is the moment of reflexivity where imagination over life elsewhere collides with present experiences in place. However, using the concept of emotional reflexivity, we argue that these re…
Making heritage of modernity
At first glance, the terms heritage and climate change appear to travel in opposite directions. Heritage is concerned with conserving the past, while climate change is about conserving the future. This paper tackles this temporal cross-roads by examining a tourist attraction that transforms modern, consumer culture into heritage in the form of a fast-tracked lost civilisation beneath the sea. Museo Subaquatico De Arte is a sunken sculpture museum…
So much for snapshots’
Academic publishing houses tend to be in the business of words not images, but is this any reason for tourism scholars to be remiss about photographs themselves? It is a curious fact that very few tourist photographs are included in tourism research despite the importance of the claims that are built upon them. One of these is that cultural dupes are made from tourist photography – that their photographic practices cast them as such – but the dup…
Diving with Donna Haraway and the Promise of a Blue Planet
It has been two decades since Haraway spoke about the 'promise of monsters', and seventy years since a novel kind of sea monster was created through the Aqua-Lung, giving 'underwater worlds' better access to humans. By revisiting and examining the combinatory effects of these historical moments, this paper illustrates the 'promise of scuba divers' who are somewhat monstrous in their potential to disturb common ideas about being human and life on …
From Designed Spaces to Designer Savvy Societies
The design of public space has gained importance as cities are increasingly positioned in global flows of people, capital, and ideas. These spaces speak to the culture of a place as much as to the quality of its design, but the implementation of design as an inclusive process is fraught with difficulty. This is particularly pertinent in discussions about better ways of engaging people with urban design, where there is often a language barrier bet…
Tourism, Design and Controversy
This paper explores the kind of stories non-humans enable us to tell about tourism. It introduces a ‘relational materialist’ approach to investigate tourism through the early life of a building called Zero Davey. In providing upmarket hotel accommodation, Zero Davey imported tourism into a place that is well established as the postcard image of Hobart, Australia’s southern-most city. In adding tourism stock to the Sullivans Cove precinct, Zero Da…
Home and away from home
Despite the growth of domestic and international markets in second homes, there has been relatively little research on this issue in the Australian context. Yet several features of this context present interesting ways of extending the debates about second home ownership that have characterised social and policy discussions to date in the UK and Europe. In this paper we consider the overall extent, regional distribution and broader impacts of a f…
Diving with Donna Haraway and the Promise of a Blue Planet
It has been two decades since Haraway spoke about the 'promise of monsters', and seventy years since a novel kind of sea monster was created through the Aqua-Lung, giving 'underwater worlds' better access to humans. By revisiting and examining the combinatory effects of these historical moments, this paper illustrates the 'promise of scuba divers' who are somewhat monstrous in their potential to disturb common ideas about being human and life on …
Exploring emotional reflexivity in British lifestyle migration to Australia
In this paper, we explore narratives from interviews with British migrants who had shifted to Australia seeking a better way of life. Framed through the conceptual paradigm of lifestyle migration, we argue in this paper that pivotal to this late‐modern phenomenon is the moment of reflexivity where imagination over life elsewhere collides with present experiences in place. However, using the concept of emotional reflexivity, we argue that these re…
Tourism, Design and Controversy
This paper explores the kind of stories non-humans enable us to tell about tourism. It introduces a ‘relational materialist’ approach to investigate tourism through the early life of a building called Zero Davey. In providing upmarket hotel accommodation, Zero Davey imported tourism into a place that is well established as the postcard image of Hobart, Australia’s southern-most city. In adding tourism stock to the Sullivans Cove precinct, Zero Da…
Tourism and the blue economy
The blue economy is formally recognized by the United Nations as a term that aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of economic activity that takes place within or through ocean and freshwater bodies of water. Optimally, the blue economy subscribes to sustainable economic principles and a set of guidelines to ensure the protection of all marine and freshwater resources and ecosystem services. All marine forms of tourism, coastal tourism an…
So much for snapshots’
Academic publishing houses tend to be in the business of words not images, but is this any reason for tourism scholars to be remiss about photographs themselves? It is a curious fact that very few tourist photographs are included in tourism research despite the importance of the claims that are built upon them. One of these is that cultural dupes are made from tourist photography – that their photographic practices cast them as such – but the dup…
Making heritage of modernity
At first glance, the terms heritage and climate change appear to travel in opposite directions. Heritage is concerned with conserving the past, while climate change is about conserving the future. This paper tackles this temporal cross-roads by examining a tourist attraction that transforms modern, consumer culture into heritage in the form of a fast-tracked lost civilisation beneath the sea. Museo Subaquatico De Arte is a sunken sculpture museum…
Home and away from home
Despite the growth of domestic and international markets in second homes, there has been relatively little research on this issue in the Australian context. Yet several features of this context present interesting ways of extending the debates about second home ownership that have characterised social and policy discussions to date in the UK and Europe. In this paper we consider the overall extent, regional distribution and broader impacts of a f…
Tourism, Design and Controversy
This paper explores the kind of stories non-humans enable us to tell about tourism. It introduces a ‘relational materialist’ approach to investigate tourism through the early life of a building called Zero Davey. In providing upmarket hotel accommodation, Zero Davey imported tourism into a place that is well established as the postcard image of Hobart, Australia’s southern-most city. In adding tourism stock to the Sullivans Cove precinct, Zero Da…
From Designed Spaces to Designer Savvy Societies
The design of public space has gained importance as cities are increasingly positioned in global flows of people, capital, and ideas. These spaces speak to the culture of a place as much as to the quality of its design, but the implementation of design as an inclusive process is fraught with difficulty. This is particularly pertinent in discussions about better ways of engaging people with urban design, where there is often a language barrier bet…
So much for snapshots’
Academic publishing houses tend to be in the business of words not images, but is this any reason for tourism scholars to be remiss about photographs themselves? It is a curious fact that very few tourist photographs are included in tourism research despite the importance of the claims that are built upon them. One of these is that cultural dupes are made from tourist photography – that their photographic practices cast them as such – but the dup…
Diving with Donna Haraway and the Promise of a Blue Planet
It has been two decades since Haraway spoke about the 'promise of monsters', and seventy years since a novel kind of sea monster was created through the Aqua-Lung, giving 'underwater worlds' better access to humans. By revisiting and examining the combinatory effects of these historical moments, this paper illustrates the 'promise of scuba divers' who are somewhat monstrous in their potential to disturb common ideas about being human and life on …
Making heritage of modernity
At first glance, the terms heritage and climate change appear to travel in opposite directions. Heritage is concerned with conserving the past, while climate change is about conserving the future. This paper tackles this temporal cross-roads by examining a tourist attraction that transforms modern, consumer culture into heritage in the form of a fast-tracked lost civilisation beneath the sea. Museo Subaquatico De Arte is a sunken sculpture museum…
Exploring emotional reflexivity in British lifestyle migration to Australia
In this paper, we explore narratives from interviews with British migrants who had shifted to Australia seeking a better way of life. Framed through the conceptual paradigm of lifestyle migration, we argue in this paper that pivotal to this late‐modern phenomenon is the moment of reflexivity where imagination over life elsewhere collides with present experiences in place. However, using the concept of emotional reflexivity, we argue that these re…
Innovative local response to cyclone damaged reef leads to rapid tourism recovery
Climate change poses substantial risks to natural and human systems and effective response is essential. Underwater sculptures have been installed at multiple global locations to restore damaged reefs, increase tourism and educate visitors. There has been limited research that evaluates the environmental, social, cultural and economic costs of impacts such as cyclones and interventions such as underwater sculptures. Thisresearch investigated the …
Tourism and the blue economy
The blue economy is formally recognized by the United Nations as a term that aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of economic activity that takes place within or through ocean and freshwater bodies of water. Optimally, the blue economy subscribes to sustainable economic principles and a set of guidelines to ensure the protection of all marine and freshwater resources and ecosystem services. All marine forms of tourism, coastal tourism an…
Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Tourism (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (4 works) · Geography (4 works)