Lee Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3748826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5759-0054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Expanding the Scope of Visitor Studies: From Informal Learning to Heritage Contexts
Seeing differently
Mountains are central to how New Zealanders see themselves as a nation and the image that they project to the world. This article explores elements of the past that have made this struggle necessary, in particular the role of mountain imagery created by Pākehā during the nineteenth century, when Aotearoa's mountains were used to construct a vision of a 'new' country in the minds of those 'at home'. Colonists represented the mountains as untrodden…
Lies, damn lies and statistics”: A history of museum visits in Australasia
While a great deal of attention has been paid to museum visit data in the last few decades, very little is known about long-term trends. This article examines the distinctive history of museum visits in Australasia through a comparative study of eight key institutions from across the region. Archival research was undertaken at each institution to compile as complete as possible a data set of annual visitation from opening until present day. Any s…
Regards décalés sur des patrimoines silencieux
Playing in the Bush: Recreation and National Parks in New South Wales
The Calculable and the Incalculable: Narratives of Safety and Danger in the Mountains
This article uses biographical narrative interviews with 22 New Zealand mountaineers to examine their relationship with safety and danger. Interpretation of the empirical material draws on theories about the social and cultural construction of risk to illuminate the complex processes by which the mountaineers make sense of the dangers they encounter in the mountains. The findings challenge existing theories that view risk taking as a defining cha…
Audiences at the “New” Museum: Visitor Commitment, Diversity and Leisure at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
In response to the “new museology” and a competitive and financially constrained environment, museums are increasingly expected to maintain high overall visitation, a democratized audience base and multiple offerings in terms of visitor experience. This article examines over a decade of visitor statistics from the “new” Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which opened in 1998, to determine the extent to which it is meeting these expectations…
Tragedy in the Adventure Playground: Media Representations of Mountaineering Accidents in New Zealand
On 31 December 2003, three mountain guides and their three clients were swept 500 metres down Mount Tasman, New Zealand's second highest mountain, by an avalanche. The three guides and one client died. The tragedy and its aftermath generated exceptional national newspaper coverage for a mountaineering accident in New Zealand. This paper explores the media representation of mountaineering through a case study which analyses the newspaper reporting…
The 'spirit of the hills: Mountaineering in northwest Otago,New Zealand, 1882-1940
A defined geographical region and time period is used to examine the growing popularity of mountaineering in relation to its social and cultural context. The study draws on oral histories, diaries, autobiographies, articles and archival material from mountaineers, and blends them with insights from geography, sociology, art history, literary criticism and cultural history. The findings of the study demonstrate that early mountaineering in New Zea…
The 'spirit of the hills: Mountaineering in northwest Otago,New Zealand, 1882-1940
A defined geographical region and time period is used to examine the growing popularity of mountaineering in relation to its social and cultural context. The study draws on oral histories, diaries, autobiographies, articles and archival material from mountaineers, and blends them with insights from geography, sociology, art history, literary criticism and cultural history. The findings of the study demonstrate that early mountaineering in New Zea…
Tragedy in the Adventure Playground: Media Representations of Mountaineering Accidents in New Zealand
On 31 December 2003, three mountain guides and their three clients were swept 500 metres down Mount Tasman, New Zealand's second highest mountain, by an avalanche. The three guides and one client died. The tragedy and its aftermath generated exceptional national newspaper coverage for a mountaineering accident in New Zealand. This paper explores the media representation of mountaineering through a case study which analyses the newspaper reporting…
The Calculable and the Incalculable: Narratives of Safety and Danger in the Mountains
This article uses biographical narrative interviews with 22 New Zealand mountaineers to examine their relationship with safety and danger. Interpretation of the empirical material draws on theories about the social and cultural construction of risk to illuminate the complex processes by which the mountaineers make sense of the dangers they encounter in the mountains. The findings challenge existing theories that view risk taking as a defining cha…
The 'spirit of the hills: Mountaineering in northwest Otago,New Zealand, 1882-1940
A defined geographical region and time period is used to examine the growing popularity of mountaineering in relation to its social and cultural context. The study draws on oral histories, diaries, autobiographies, articles and archival material from mountaineers, and blends them with insights from geography, sociology, art history, literary criticism and cultural history. The findings of the study demonstrate that early mountaineering in New Zea…
Tragedy in the Adventure Playground: Media Representations of Mountaineering Accidents in New Zealand
On 31 December 2003, three mountain guides and their three clients were swept 500 metres down Mount Tasman, New Zealand's second highest mountain, by an avalanche. The three guides and one client died. The tragedy and its aftermath generated exceptional national newspaper coverage for a mountaineering accident in New Zealand. This paper explores the media representation of mountaineering through a case study which analyses the newspaper reporting…
Audiences at the “New” Museum: Visitor Commitment, Diversity and Leisure at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
In response to the “new museology” and a competitive and financially constrained environment, museums are increasingly expected to maintain high overall visitation, a democratized audience base and multiple offerings in terms of visitor experience. This article examines over a decade of visitor statistics from the “new” Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which opened in 1998, to determine the extent to which it is meeting these expectations…
The Calculable and the Incalculable: Narratives of Safety and Danger in the Mountains
This article uses biographical narrative interviews with 22 New Zealand mountaineers to examine their relationship with safety and danger. Interpretation of the empirical material draws on theories about the social and cultural construction of risk to illuminate the complex processes by which the mountaineers make sense of the dangers they encounter in the mountains. The findings challenge existing theories that view risk taking as a defining cha…
Playing in the Bush: Recreation and National Parks in New South Wales
Regards décalés sur des patrimoines silencieux
Lies, damn lies and statistics”: A history of museum visits in Australasia
While a great deal of attention has been paid to museum visit data in the last few decades, very little is known about long-term trends. This article examines the distinctive history of museum visits in Australasia through a comparative study of eight key institutions from across the region. Archival research was undertaken at each institution to compile as complete as possible a data set of annual visitation from opening until present day. Any s…
Seeing differently
Mountains are central to how New Zealanders see themselves as a nation and the image that they project to the world. This article explores elements of the past that have made this struggle necessary, in particular the role of mountain imagery created by Pākehā during the nineteenth century, when Aotearoa's mountains were used to construct a vision of a 'new' country in the minds of those 'at home'. Colonists represented the mountains as untrodden…
Expanding the Scope of Visitor Studies: From Informal Learning to Heritage Contexts
Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (3 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (3 works)