Leanne White

Biographic Data

ID3782883
NAMELeanne White
GIVEN NAMESLeanne
FAMILY NAMEWhite
SIGNATUREWHITE L
AFFILIATIONSVictoria University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

    Open AccessPhilip R Stone, Rudi Hartmann et al.BOOKThe Palgrave Handbook of Dark…2018

    The study of ‘dark tourism’ may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the practice itself—including commemorative, educational or even leisure visits to places associated with death and/or suffering—is by no means a new social behaviour (Stone 2007). Scholarly examination of dark tourism has raised fundamental lines of multidisciplinary interrogation, not least issues that focus on notions of deviance and moral concerns of consuming or producing…

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies

    Leanne White, Philip R Stone et al.BOOKThe Palgrave Handbook of Dark…2018

  • Qantas still calls Australia home

    Open AccessLeanne WhiteARTICLETourist Studies2018Cited by: 1References: 1

    An analysis of images of Australia in Qantas television advertising is undertaken in this article. The phenomenon of ‘commercial nationalism’ is investigated through a close textual analysis of Qantas advertisements broadcast via mainstream media, in particular television, between 1987 and 2017. The advertisements are examined by undertaking a semiotic analysis. The research methodology also combines shot combination analysis and a reading of the…

  • Commercial Nationalism and Tourism

    Leanne WhiteBOOKCommercial Nationalism and Tourism2017

  • Advertising and Public Memory

    Stefan Schutt, Sam Robert et al.BOOKAdvertising and Public Memory2016

  • Dark Tourism and Place Identity

    Leanne White, Elspeth FrewBOOKDark Tourism and Place Identity2013

  • Dark Tourism and Place Identity

    Leanne White, Elspeth FrewBOOKDark Tourism and Place Identity2013Cited by: 1

  • Cathy Freeman and Australia's Indigenous heritage

    Leanne WhiteARTICLEInternational Journal of Heritage…2013Cited by: 3References: 13

    This paper explores the interconnections between Australia’s most significant sporting event, the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and Australia’s Indigenous culture and heritage. At this historic moment for the nation, Aboriginal Australian athlete Cathy Freeman came to embody Australia’s possible future and represented a vital legacy of the event. The paper examines representations of heritage and identity at the of the Sydney Games and how these ima…

  • Tourism and National Identities

    Elspeth Frew, Leanne WhiteBOOKTourism and National Identities2011

    1. Introduction Section 1: Identity and Image 2. Tourism and the National Identity in the Unites States: The Case of Washington 3. Brand Ireland: Tourism and National Identity 4. National Identity Construction and Tourism in Hungary: A Multi-Level Approach 5. Wizards Everywhere? Film Tourism and the Imagining of National Identity in New Zealand 6. The Role of the Horse in Australian Tourism and National Identity Section 2: Culture and Community 7…

  • The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Bid

    Leanne WhiteARTICLEThe International Journal of the…2011Cited by: 1References: 1

    The almost universal reaction across Australia to the 1993 announcement that Sydney would host the 2000 Olympic Games was one of elation. Since the bid launch in 1990, the city of Sydney and the nation had been urged to ‘Share the Spirit’ and maintain enthusiasm for the possibility of hosting the Millennium Olympics. The bid campaign appeared to be a carefully orchestrated blend of government rhetoric and public relations spin with an emphasis on…