Mike Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3607077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8996-7645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Into The Red
The RSGS has commissioned a substantial report, Into the Red: Counting the Costs of Climate Change, that analyses existing inquiries into the financial dimensions of climate change as it impacts Scotland in its global context. For the first time, quantifiable trends and projections for the Scottish case are brought together, analysed and pulled through into conclusions and actionable recommendations. The core logic is to balance the financial cos…
The Challenge of Productivity-Based Development
Claudia NOTZKE, Aboriginal Peoples and Natural Resources in Canada, North York
Claudia NOTZKE, Aboriginal Peoples and Natural Resources in Canada, North York: Captus University Publications, York University, 1994. Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 15, numéro 1, 1995, p. 5-113) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Making an impact
Scotland has set some of the most stringent legislation in the world to tackle climate change. This article outlines some of the process that has brought that about. What is the role of science and what else is required to make a genuine impact on a wicked issue of this scale and complexity? Whilst the science provides a critical factual consensus around the issue, there are many stages required to actually deliver change. Critically any such iss…
Continuity and Change in the Alum Industry
Wenzhou Alum Mine in Fanshan Town, Zhejiang Province (China), operated from the middle of the 14th century to December 2017 and, as an important centre of the Chinese alum industry for more than 600 years, witnessed both change and continuity in the development of alum mining and refining technology. Alum was produced in Wenzhou from the alunite ore mined in the territory, and included quarrying, calcining, weathering and steeping the ore to prod…
Gerald James Thompson (1932–2019)
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and develop cities and regions, and to firmly locate them within an increasingly competitive global tourism marketplace. From Athens to Rio de Janeiro, Olympic landmark buildings, 'districts', and 'parks' h…
Emotion in Motion
Contents: Introduction Tourism, awe and inner journeys, David Picard The emotional tourist, Mike Robinson Part I Emotions and Inner Journeys: The dark is on the inside: the honne of Japanese exploratory tourists, Nelson Graburn Seeking the existential moment, Elvi Whittaker Affect and moral transformations in young volunteer tourists, A%omilie Crossley Overwhelmed by divinity in Jerusalem, Eliezer Witztum and Moshe Kalian Passionate movements: em…
World Heritage, Tourism and Identity
Encounters with Popular Pasts
Encounters with Popular Pasts
Encounters with Popular Pasts
Tourisme et Patrimoine Mondial
Sous la direction de Laurent Bourdeau, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Mike Robinson Le rapport entre tourisme et patrimoine mondial émerge comme une problématique forte qui suscite un nombre important de travaux. Cet intérêt se situe au croisement de plusieurs évolutions : tout d’abord le succès incontestable de la Convention du patrimoine mondial qui incite les États à entrer dans une « course à la labellisation » accélérée, la reconnaissance de cette di…
Tourisme et Patrimoine Mondial
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Travelling languages
Based on the commonly held assumption that we now live in a world that is ‘on the move’, with growing opportunities for both real and virtual travel and the blurring of boundaries between previously defined places, societies and cultures, the theme of this book is firmly grounded in the interdisciplinary field of ‘Mobilities’. ‘Mobilities’ deals with the movement of people, objects, capital, information, ideas and cultures on varying scales, and …
The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies
This handbook provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues and agenda of tourism studies
Joan Ryan (1932–2005)
Are we there yet
Small Screen, Big Tourism
This paper examines a popular cultural phenomenon originating in Korea which has assumed significance across Asia and beyond. This ‘Korean wave’ or Hallyu includes the circulation and consumption of Korean popular television dramas. An exploratory case study approach is presented to provide insights on the relationships between this phenomenon and patterns of tourism in Korea related to the wider concept of screen-tourism. The paper addresses the…
Politics, Power and Play
Cultural Tourism in a Changing World
At the interface between culture and tourism lies a series of deep and challenging issues relating to how we deal with issues of political engagement, social justice, economic change, belonging, identity and meaning. This book introduces researchers, students and practitioners to a range of interesting and complex debates regarding the political and social implications of cultural tourism in a changing world. Concise and thematic theoretical sect…
Cultural Tourism in a Changing World
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change
This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates festivals in the constantly changing, socio-economi…
Management, marketing and the political economy of travel and tourism
Small Screen, Big Tourism
This paper examines a popular cultural phenomenon originating in Korea which has assumed significance across Asia and beyond. This ‘Korean wave’ or Hallyu includes the circulation and consumption of Korean popular television dramas. An exploratory case study approach is presented to provide insights on the relationships between this phenomenon and patterns of tourism in Korea related to the wider concept of screen-tourism. The paper addresses the…
World Heritage, Tourism and Identity
Worlds Passing By
Tourism at the Olympic Games
Are we there yet
The identity of human social groups
The existence of human social groups is taken as problematic. What is it that constitutes a group “identity”? What is it that stays the same despite changes in membership? The everyday notion that a group is the same if it stays about the same size and continues to do the same sorts of things is taken seriously. “Size” and “activity” are key variables that must be kept within limits if the group is to maintain its identity. This, in turn, implies…
Double-level languages and co-operative working
Triggering artefacts
Commentary
In this commentary, the Director of the Arctic Institute, Mike Robinson, discusses the present and future prospects of the Institute including Arctic, ASTIS, Kluane Research Station and professional services contacts
Concevoir pour des utilisations imprévues
Support for work practice is better conceptualised as support for activity taking place in a multidimensional space than as prescription of temporal task sequences. The notion of «common artefact» is introduced to illustrate, unify, and summarise recent research that identifies significant dimensions of cooperative work. Common artefacts may be mundane, everyday objects like hotel keyracks or sophisticated computer tools. Both are multidimensiona…
The green challenge
Championing The Democratic Intellect
[This brief note discusses the philosophical basis of the Scottish vision of civil society and the Scots championing of Democratic Intellectualism. The Scottish tradition of academic generalism, trust in lay scholars, and the practice of technical and practical competencies is alive at the Arctic Institute and is expressed in the ASTIS database, the journal Arctic, PAR and co-management research. The article notes that intermarriage between Nativ…
On the Relationship between Scholarship and Democracy
Over the 50 years of Arctic's publication, a series of dedicated editors and countless reviewers have applied their skills in the quest for clarity of thought, expression and concept in the best interests of an interdisciplinary readership. This tradition has fostered scholarly citizenship, in line with John Ralston Saul's contemporary appeal for academics (1995) to avoid the language of corporatist elites, which is typically private, exclusionar…
Exercising Arctic Institute Citizenship
In this Arctic we return to a trusted format that harkens back to the first issues of the journal in the late 1940s. We are once again combining news of Arctic Institute members, essay format contributions on topics of immediate interest to our readers, and yes, even a cartoon, with the usual Arctic staples of peer-reviewed papers, book reviews, and the occasional Arctic profile. In this manner the entire message of the institute can find a safe …
Informed choices for tourism
Comparing Environmental Science Literacy Among Education Majors and a National Sample
The responses of a convenience sample of 83 secondary preservice and preeducation students in three university classes were compared to each other and to a national sample of 1,492 adults on a national poll of science knowledge. The results of the data analyses using simple ANOVA and two-tailed t tests indicated that preservice secondary science teachers in a secondary science methods class are significantly more science literate than preeducatio…
Tourism and Cultural Conflicts
Cultures and conflicts - the role of tourism managing the cultural impacts of religious tourism in the Himalayas, Tibet, Nepal tourism and cultural misrecognition in Peru cultural consequences of tourism in de-industrialising cities in the north of England social and cultural impacts of tourism policy in Tunisia resolving cultural conflicts for tourism in Russia tourism and culture in Greece some dimensions of Maori involvement in tourism partner…
Identity in virtual communities
The usability of Collaborative Virtual Environments is a function of technical affordances with the implicit and explicit intentions of users. Intentions can be revealed by 'cyborg ethnography' -- a close examination of interactions and conversations conducted in CVE's. Three CVE's were examined ethnographically and it is found that social conventions develop around the theme of producing identity. However, there is doubt that such conventions co…
Is Anyone Behind The Shield of Achilles
This commentary discusses the decline in northern science research as a consequence of reduced government fiscal support for northern research. This reduction in funding has affected federal programs, granting authorities and academic publications. The need to develop new university career opportunities for northern researchers is also highlighted
Raison d'Étre
Sometimes, amidst the rush and complexity of what passes for academic life in the last years of the second millennium, we miss the opportunity to reflect quietly on the reasons why we do what we do. This commentary is being written in the boardroom/poster room of the Arctic Institute's Kluane Lake Research Station in the Yukon. All around me on the walls are poster displays on such topics as the University of Ottawa Field School Program from 1975…
In Memory of Matryona and Valerij Sotkayarvi of Jona
Director of the Arctic Institute of North America, Mike Robinson, pays tribute to two Sami who were recently murdered in their home in the village of Jona. The Arctic Institute and Sami were partners working together on traditional land-use and occupancy maps of the Sami in the Kola Peninsula over the past three years, and these two individuals had been deeply involved in this project. Their deaths are evidence of the deep social and economic pro…
Teaching, Research, Service and PAR
Over the past decade, AINA has contributed in all three areas (teaching, research and service), benefiting from association with its host university. We are now a nationally recognized centre of teaching and practice for participatory action research (PAR), known for our innovative combination of undergraduates, graduate students, and research associates in the conduct of international PAR projects. The last few years found our PAR teams in the K…
Tourism Collaboration and Partnerships
Part I Process and patterns: cross-border partnerships in tourism resource management, Dallen Timothy interest based formulation of tourism policy for environmentally sensitive destinations, Brent Ritchie collaboration on tourism policy making, Steven Parker the World Wide Fund for Nature Arctic Tourism Project, Peter Mason, Margaret Johnston and Dave Twynam an Australian Research Partnership between industry, universities and government, Terry d…
From information to conversation
We support the calls from many commentators to include human interaction in the web, rather than as an extra outside the web. We suggest a generic model of awareness, and some specific interpretations: action-event couplings to call a receiver; general awareness of known others; and local awareness of all others. We then consider extensions to the web into mobile and domestic appliances, and suggest that an underlying awareness service will be ne…
Nursing Models and Nursing Practice
How Do 4th through 12th Grade Science Textbooks Address Applications in Engineering and Technology
Selected elementary (Grades 4 through 6) and secondary (Grades 7 through 12) science textbooks were examined for their treatment of engineering and technology relative to the national science and mathematics standards in the areas of connections to technology and society.Elementary textbooks were found to have significant connections between science concepts and technology and society; however, the treatment was often superficial and/or indirect.…
Reading between the lines
Companion Encyclopedia of Geography
The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also asks what lies in the future: * A differentiated world * A world transformed by the growth of a global economy * The global scale of habitat modification *…
Companion Encyclopedia of Geography
Student Enrollment in High School AP Sciences and Calculus
Many high schools offer students the opportunity to take advanced placement (AP) courses in many subjects including science and mathematics. Studies have shown that students who take these classes are more likely to succeed in college and that failure in engineering education is strongly correlated to deficiencies in mathematics and science. This article presents the background of AP classes and their impact on science, technology, engineering, a…
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