Ann Witte
Biographic Data
| ID | 248554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Witte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Witte |
| SIGNATURE | WITTE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edinburgh Napier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1529-7551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating tourism ethnographies – fieldwork embroiled in time, movement and emotion
In this paper, we reflect on the challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in tourism research. Specifically, we discuss the intense, messy and complex dynamics of doing (tourism) ethnographic fieldwork, highlighting how key challenges have affected us as researchers, our practises, relationships and experiences in the field. Our reflections are illustrated considering respectively our research experiences of mountaineering in the Himalayas, walking t…
Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown
This study examines how diaspora tourists’ secondary and primary image of their ancestral home is constructed and how the tourist gaze is implied within. The study focuses on the Hokkien Chinese diaspora travelling to their ancestral hometown of Quanzhou, China. 58 foreign-born Hokkien Chinese participants were interviewed. A thematic analysis of the transcripts revealed the significant influence of the collective and romantic gaze in forming bot…
Tourism routes through a mobile lens
This article examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise the Chamagudao’s heritage as a historic trade and caravan route. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan, China, following movements of tourists, guides, residents and information on the remaining trails of the Chamagudao. It outlines how nodes, constructed by state actors and touristic media, rather than the lines of mobile heritage …
Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice
Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most people engage in on an almost daily basis and which has thus been frequently investigated in regards to the consumption and construction of place. These explorations have predominantly been focusing on urban contexts and frequently…
Tourist’s mobilities
This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for waiting, stillness and immobility – particularly in terms of flying
Gendered tourism experiences in China
This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from March to November 2019. Search keywords included ‘gender,’ ‘women,’ ‘identity,’ ‘safety,’ ‘reasons women travel,’ ‘men’s resistance to women’s travel,’ and ‘sexual harassment.’ Through a critical discour…
Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road
Walking is a potential key growth area for a diversifying domestic leisure and tourism demand in China. This research discusses the emergence of walking as a touristic activity among Chinese domestic tourists on the Ancient Tea Horse Road (ATHR) in Yunnan, using mobile ethnography. Constellations of sought practices, experiences, and expressed beliefs concerning walking are discussed for four emerging communities of touristic walkers on theses tr…
How Much of Children's Time in Nonparental Care Coincides with Their Parents' Time at Work
Nonparental care (NPC) for children before they enter kindergarten has had two primary purposes for American families since the start of the twentieth century: supporting parental employment and providing children developmentally enriching out-of-home experiences. Today's policy makers are increasingly expanding publicly funded opportunities for children in low-income families to experience center-based care. Yet parents' work commitments often o…
Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice
Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most people engage in on an almost daily basis and which has thus been frequently investigated in regards to the consumption and construction of place. These explorations have predominantly been focusing on urban contexts and frequently…
Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road
Walking is a potential key growth area for a diversifying domestic leisure and tourism demand in China. This research discusses the emergence of walking as a touristic activity among Chinese domestic tourists on the Ancient Tea Horse Road (ATHR) in Yunnan, using mobile ethnography. Constellations of sought practices, experiences, and expressed beliefs concerning walking are discussed for four emerging communities of touristic walkers on theses tr…
Tourist’s mobilities
This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for waiting, stillness and immobility – particularly in terms of flying
Gendered tourism experiences in China
This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from March to November 2019. Search keywords included ‘gender,’ ‘women,’ ‘identity,’ ‘safety,’ ‘reasons women travel,’ ‘men’s resistance to women’s travel,’ and ‘sexual harassment.’ Through a critical discour…
Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown
This study examines how diaspora tourists’ secondary and primary image of their ancestral home is constructed and how the tourist gaze is implied within. The study focuses on the Hokkien Chinese diaspora travelling to their ancestral hometown of Quanzhou, China. 58 foreign-born Hokkien Chinese participants were interviewed. A thematic analysis of the transcripts revealed the significant influence of the collective and romantic gaze in forming bot…
How Much of Children's Time in Nonparental Care Coincides with Their Parents' Time at Work
Nonparental care (NPC) for children before they enter kindergarten has had two primary purposes for American families since the start of the twentieth century: supporting parental employment and providing children developmentally enriching out-of-home experiences. Today's policy makers are increasingly expanding publicly funded opportunities for children in low-income families to experience center-based care. Yet parents' work commitments often o…
Tourism routes through a mobile lens
This article examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise the Chamagudao’s heritage as a historic trade and caravan route. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan, China, following movements of tourists, guides, residents and information on the remaining trails of the Chamagudao. It outlines how nodes, constructed by state actors and touristic media, rather than the lines of mobile heritage …
How Much of Children's Time in Nonparental Care Coincides with Their Parents' Time at Work
Nonparental care (NPC) for children before they enter kindergarten has had two primary purposes for American families since the start of the twentieth century: supporting parental employment and providing children developmentally enriching out-of-home experiences. Today's policy makers are increasingly expanding publicly funded opportunities for children in low-income families to experience center-based care. Yet parents' work commitments often o…
Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road
Walking is a potential key growth area for a diversifying domestic leisure and tourism demand in China. This research discusses the emergence of walking as a touristic activity among Chinese domestic tourists on the Ancient Tea Horse Road (ATHR) in Yunnan, using mobile ethnography. Constellations of sought practices, experiences, and expressed beliefs concerning walking are discussed for four emerging communities of touristic walkers on theses tr…
Tourist’s mobilities
This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for waiting, stillness and immobility – particularly in terms of flying
Gendered tourism experiences in China
This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from March to November 2019. Search keywords included ‘gender,’ ‘women,’ ‘identity,’ ‘safety,’ ‘reasons women travel,’ ‘men’s resistance to women’s travel,’ and ‘sexual harassment.’ Through a critical discour…
Navigating tourism ethnographies – fieldwork embroiled in time, movement and emotion
In this paper, we reflect on the challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in tourism research. Specifically, we discuss the intense, messy and complex dynamics of doing (tourism) ethnographic fieldwork, highlighting how key challenges have affected us as researchers, our practises, relationships and experiences in the field. Our reflections are illustrated considering respectively our research experiences of mountaineering in the Himalayas, walking t…
Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown
This study examines how diaspora tourists’ secondary and primary image of their ancestral home is constructed and how the tourist gaze is implied within. The study focuses on the Hokkien Chinese diaspora travelling to their ancestral hometown of Quanzhou, China. 58 foreign-born Hokkien Chinese participants were interviewed. A thematic analysis of the transcripts revealed the significant influence of the collective and romantic gaze in forming bot…
Tourism routes through a mobile lens
This article examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise the Chamagudao’s heritage as a historic trade and caravan route. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan, China, following movements of tourists, guides, residents and information on the remaining trails of the Chamagudao. It outlines how nodes, constructed by state actors and touristic media, rather than the lines of mobile heritage …
Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice
Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most people engage in on an almost daily basis and which has thus been frequently investigated in regards to the consumption and construction of place. These explorations have predominantly been focusing on urban contexts and frequently…
Tourism (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works)