Alison M Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3984819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison M Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9322-0111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dress Code
Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, August 09, 2019–October 14, 2019; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, December 08, 2019–February 23, 2020
Resilient Destinations and Tourism
This chapter seeks to engage in a more complex, critical, theoretically curious, and interdisciplinary discussion about tourism, governance and resilience. It seeks to challenge readers’ assumptions and excavate meanings underpinning commonly used terms like sustainability and tourism and governance. It is intended to provoke deep thinking, and to challenge embedded ways of conceptualising and operationalising these concepts. Scientific framing o…
Transitioning towards sustainability in the mountain resort community of Whistler, British Columbia
In 2005, the resort community of Whistler introduced an innovative model of comprehensive sustainability planning and governance that attracted widespread attention. In this paper, we use the lens of path creation, together with insights from transition management, to examine the drivers of change in the creation and development of this new pathway towards sustainability. Specific elements of place and time are important factors, as are corporate…
Reflections on institutional and paradigmatic changes in tourism geography
Practicing Sustainability
Aspects of the ordinary in everyday dressing remain elusive to fashion studies, meaning the life of what Judy Attfield calls 'design in the lower case' escapes notice. In this article, the authors assemble a practice-oriented perspective to illuminate 'wearing' as an outcome of sets of commonplace and routine practices related to dressing, that wear a garment in and out over time, and enhance the visibility of clothing use. The central example is…
"Counting" Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults in Health Research
Gender minority refers to transgender and gender-nonconforming people whose sex assigned at birth is different from their current gender identity. US health surveillance systems do not routinely include questions to identify gender minority respondents, resulting in a lack of representative health data that can be used to evaluate the health of gender minorities. This omission represents a missed opportunity to understand the health and well-bein…
No time for smokescreen skepticism
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Mindful deviation in creating a governance path towards sustainability in resort destinations
Drawing on recent work in evolutionary economic geography, we focus on path creation as the framework for understanding how, in a resort destination context, the shift from growth models to ones based on principles of sustainability are evolving. Path creation emphasizes the power of human agency by recognizing the influence of entrepreneurs in shaping their environments. In the case study of the mountain resort of Whistler, British Columbia, we …
Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism
In the last two decades the application of quantitative techniques in the study of the tourism phenomenon has gained momentum. This can be traced back to several factors. The most prominent is perhaps the fact that, as the reliance of destinations on tourism has grown and the industry expanded globally, more resources have been devoted to the collection of quantitative data and the maintenance of tourism data sets. This may have encouraged resear…
Travelling down the road to postdisciplinarity? Reflections of a tourism geographer
Like many other forms of scholarship in geography, tourism geography has evolved as a distinct subfield of inquiry within the discipline, although the contributions of tourism geographers are perhaps more readily acknowledged in the multidisciplinary realm of tourism studies. I trace the evolving relationship of tourism geography to both the discipline of geography and to the field of tourism studies. In doing so, I reflect on such influences as …
On Wearing
A sustainable material culture is perhaps more about making new relationships than making new things. This paper explores the topography of what we are calling "Design's already made," including its artifacts, practices, and perceptions, via the lens of practice theory and in response to the problem of the largely unsustainable material cultures of design. Our investigation is framed by the term "wearing." Wearing—as a recurrent form of engagemen…
A Research Agenda for Tourism Amenity Migration Destinations
For more than a century, the character of mountain communities in North America has co-evolved with the shifting nature of their economies. For those alpine places traditionally linked to tourism enterprise, the primary shift has been from ski towns built around adventure, winter sport and related lifestyle values, to resort communities focused on providing broader recreation and entertainment services (Frick 2002, Design Workshop et al. 2004). M…
From Growth Machine to Growth Management
In North America, competition for land has often been conceptualized as being driven by growth machines whereby those with common stakes in development form coalitions of local elites to influence government in pursuit of their goals. The inequitable benefits of growth have been challenged more recently by the introduction of growth-management practices that heighten the role of local residents in land-use decisions. In this paper, the concepts o…
Deconstruction Fashion
(1998). Deconstruction Fashion: The Making of Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-assembled Clothes. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 25-49
Tourism, Recreational, and Amenity Values in Land Allocation
In this paper, we examine the influence of institutional arrangements on the implementation of local land-use allocations which incorporate tourism, recreational, and amenity (TRA) values, using a case study from British Columbia, Canada. We frame this paper within a conceptualization of postproductivism and pose the question to what extent, and under what conditions, are new local stakeholders, new local agencies, and new local processes effecti…
Rooms with a view
In communities where the lives of residents are significantly affected by tourism development, adequate involvement of residents in planning decisions is critical. Tourist communities have distinctive socio‐demographic characteristics including, for example, such resident stakeholder groups as seasonal workers and second‐home owners. Finding appropriate mechanisms for ongoing involvement that affords adequate dialogue among disparate stakeholder …
Managing growth in mountain tourism communities
An evaluation of socially responsive planning in a new resource town
Value conflicts in mountain park settings
Le Columbia Icefield et le Glacier Althabasca (Rocheuses Canadiennes)
No abstract available
A Framework for Evaluating the Planning and Development of a New Community
The planning and development of new communities is a challenging and expensive venture. This article describes the framework and methods employed to evaluate the use of socially sensitive planning in the development of Tumbler Ridge, a new coal-mining community in northeastern British Columbia. The authors describe how a set of social principles and design elements were used to develop an overall framework and detailed strategy for the evaluation…
Enhancing Social Interaction in New Resource Towns
Enhancing Social Interaction in New Resource Towns
Women in isolated resource towns
Mindful deviation in creating a governance path towards sustainability in resort destinations
Drawing on recent work in evolutionary economic geography, we focus on path creation as the framework for understanding how, in a resort destination context, the shift from growth models to ones based on principles of sustainability are evolving. Path creation emphasizes the power of human agency by recognizing the influence of entrepreneurs in shaping their environments. In the case study of the mountain resort of Whistler, British Columbia, we …
"Counting" Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults in Health Research
Gender minority refers to transgender and gender-nonconforming people whose sex assigned at birth is different from their current gender identity. US health surveillance systems do not routinely include questions to identify gender minority respondents, resulting in a lack of representative health data that can be used to evaluate the health of gender minorities. This omission represents a missed opportunity to understand the health and well-bein…
From Growth Machine to Growth Management
In North America, competition for land has often been conceptualized as being driven by growth machines whereby those with common stakes in development form coalitions of local elites to influence government in pursuit of their goals. The inequitable benefits of growth have been challenged more recently by the introduction of growth-management practices that heighten the role of local residents in land-use decisions. In this paper, the concepts o…
Managing growth in mountain tourism communities
Women in isolated resource towns
Value conflicts in mountain park settings
Travelling down the road to postdisciplinarity? Reflections of a tourism geographer
Like many other forms of scholarship in geography, tourism geography has evolved as a distinct subfield of inquiry within the discipline, although the contributions of tourism geographers are perhaps more readily acknowledged in the multidisciplinary realm of tourism studies. I trace the evolving relationship of tourism geography to both the discipline of geography and to the field of tourism studies. In doing so, I reflect on such influences as …
Tourism, Recreational, and Amenity Values in Land Allocation
In this paper, we examine the influence of institutional arrangements on the implementation of local land-use allocations which incorporate tourism, recreational, and amenity (TRA) values, using a case study from British Columbia, Canada. We frame this paper within a conceptualization of postproductivism and pose the question to what extent, and under what conditions, are new local stakeholders, new local agencies, and new local processes effecti…
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Residents’ Evaluative Structures of Northern Manitoba Mining Communities
The effects of community differences on place evaluation are examined with reference to residents’ evaluations of two contrasting northern Manitoba mining towns: Thompson and Leaf Rapids. An adapted form of repertory grid technique is employed to reveal residents’ cognitive structures, while a multidimensional scaling technique is used to uncover the underlying basis of place preference. The findings disclose important differences between the eva…
On Wearing
A sustainable material culture is perhaps more about making new relationships than making new things. This paper explores the topography of what we are calling "Design's already made," including its artifacts, practices, and perceptions, via the lens of practice theory and in response to the problem of the largely unsustainable material cultures of design. Our investigation is framed by the term "wearing." Wearing—as a recurrent form of engagemen…
Rooms with a view
In communities where the lives of residents are significantly affected by tourism development, adequate involvement of residents in planning decisions is critical. Tourist communities have distinctive socio‐demographic characteristics including, for example, such resident stakeholder groups as seasonal workers and second‐home owners. Finding appropriate mechanisms for ongoing involvement that affords adequate dialogue among disparate stakeholder …
An evaluation of socially responsive planning in a new resource town
Transitioning towards sustainability in the mountain resort community of Whistler, British Columbia
In 2005, the resort community of Whistler introduced an innovative model of comprehensive sustainability planning and governance that attracted widespread attention. In this paper, we use the lens of path creation, together with insights from transition management, to examine the drivers of change in the creation and development of this new pathway towards sustainability. Specific elements of place and time are important factors, as are corporate…
No time for smokescreen skepticism
Deconstruction Fashion
(1998). Deconstruction Fashion: The Making of Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-assembled Clothes. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 25-49
Enhancing Social Interaction in New Resource Towns
Reflections on institutional and paradigmatic changes in tourism geography
Practicing Sustainability
Aspects of the ordinary in everyday dressing remain elusive to fashion studies, meaning the life of what Judy Attfield calls 'design in the lower case' escapes notice. In this article, the authors assemble a practice-oriented perspective to illuminate 'wearing' as an outcome of sets of commonplace and routine practices related to dressing, that wear a garment in and out over time, and enhance the visibility of clothing use. The central example is…
Residents’ Evaluative Structures of Northern Manitoba Mining Communities
The effects of community differences on place evaluation are examined with reference to residents’ evaluations of two contrasting northern Manitoba mining towns: Thompson and Leaf Rapids. An adapted form of repertory grid technique is employed to reveal residents’ cognitive structures, while a multidimensional scaling technique is used to uncover the underlying basis of place preference. The findings disclose important differences between the eva…
Le Columbia Icefield et le Glacier Althabasca (Rocheuses Canadiennes)
No abstract available
A Framework for Evaluating the Planning and Development of a New Community
The planning and development of new communities is a challenging and expensive venture. This article describes the framework and methods employed to evaluate the use of socially sensitive planning in the development of Tumbler Ridge, a new coal-mining community in northeastern British Columbia. The authors describe how a set of social principles and design elements were used to develop an overall framework and detailed strategy for the evaluation…
Enhancing Social Interaction in New Resource Towns
Enhancing Social Interaction in New Resource Towns
Women in isolated resource towns
An evaluation of socially responsive planning in a new resource town
Value conflicts in mountain park settings
Managing growth in mountain tourism communities
Rooms with a view
In communities where the lives of residents are significantly affected by tourism development, adequate involvement of residents in planning decisions is critical. Tourist communities have distinctive socio‐demographic characteristics including, for example, such resident stakeholder groups as seasonal workers and second‐home owners. Finding appropriate mechanisms for ongoing involvement that affords adequate dialogue among disparate stakeholder …
Tourism, Recreational, and Amenity Values in Land Allocation
In this paper, we examine the influence of institutional arrangements on the implementation of local land-use allocations which incorporate tourism, recreational, and amenity (TRA) values, using a case study from British Columbia, Canada. We frame this paper within a conceptualization of postproductivism and pose the question to what extent, and under what conditions, are new local stakeholders, new local agencies, and new local processes effecti…
Deconstruction Fashion
(1998). Deconstruction Fashion: The Making of Unfinished, Decomposing and Re-assembled Clothes. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 25-49
From Growth Machine to Growth Management
In North America, competition for land has often been conceptualized as being driven by growth machines whereby those with common stakes in development form coalitions of local elites to influence government in pursuit of their goals. The inequitable benefits of growth have been challenged more recently by the introduction of growth-management practices that heighten the role of local residents in land-use decisions. In this paper, the concepts o…
A Research Agenda for Tourism Amenity Migration Destinations
For more than a century, the character of mountain communities in North America has co-evolved with the shifting nature of their economies. For those alpine places traditionally linked to tourism enterprise, the primary shift has been from ski towns built around adventure, winter sport and related lifestyle values, to resort communities focused on providing broader recreation and entertainment services (Frick 2002, Design Workshop et al. 2004). M…
On Wearing
A sustainable material culture is perhaps more about making new relationships than making new things. This paper explores the topography of what we are calling "Design's already made," including its artifacts, practices, and perceptions, via the lens of practice theory and in response to the problem of the largely unsustainable material cultures of design. Our investigation is framed by the term "wearing." Wearing—as a recurrent form of engagemen…
Handbook of Research Methods in Tourism
In the last two decades the application of quantitative techniques in the study of the tourism phenomenon has gained momentum. This can be traced back to several factors. The most prominent is perhaps the fact that, as the reliance of destinations on tourism has grown and the industry expanded globally, more resources have been devoted to the collection of quantitative data and the maintenance of tourism data sets. This may have encouraged resear…
Travelling down the road to postdisciplinarity? Reflections of a tourism geographer
Like many other forms of scholarship in geography, tourism geography has evolved as a distinct subfield of inquiry within the discipline, although the contributions of tourism geographers are perhaps more readily acknowledged in the multidisciplinary realm of tourism studies. I trace the evolving relationship of tourism geography to both the discipline of geography and to the field of tourism studies. In doing so, I reflect on such influences as …
Mindful deviation in creating a governance path towards sustainability in resort destinations
Drawing on recent work in evolutionary economic geography, we focus on path creation as the framework for understanding how, in a resort destination context, the shift from growth models to ones based on principles of sustainability are evolving. Path creation emphasizes the power of human agency by recognizing the influence of entrepreneurs in shaping their environments. In the case study of the mountain resort of Whistler, British Columbia, we …
"Counting" Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults in Health Research
Gender minority refers to transgender and gender-nonconforming people whose sex assigned at birth is different from their current gender identity. US health surveillance systems do not routinely include questions to identify gender minority respondents, resulting in a lack of representative health data that can be used to evaluate the health of gender minorities. This omission represents a missed opportunity to understand the health and well-bein…
No time for smokescreen skepticism
Denying bogus skepticism in climate change and tourism research
Practicing Sustainability
Aspects of the ordinary in everyday dressing remain elusive to fashion studies, meaning the life of what Judy Attfield calls 'design in the lower case' escapes notice. In this article, the authors assemble a practice-oriented perspective to illuminate 'wearing' as an outcome of sets of commonplace and routine practices related to dressing, that wear a garment in and out over time, and enhance the visibility of clothing use. The central example is…
Resilient Destinations and Tourism
This chapter seeks to engage in a more complex, critical, theoretically curious, and interdisciplinary discussion about tourism, governance and resilience. It seeks to challenge readers’ assumptions and excavate meanings underpinning commonly used terms like sustainability and tourism and governance. It is intended to provoke deep thinking, and to challenge embedded ways of conceptualising and operationalising these concepts. Scientific framing o…
Transitioning towards sustainability in the mountain resort community of Whistler, British Columbia
In 2005, the resort community of Whistler introduced an innovative model of comprehensive sustainability planning and governance that attracted widespread attention. In this paper, we use the lens of path creation, together with insights from transition management, to examine the drivers of change in the creation and development of this new pathway towards sustainability. Specific elements of place and time are important factors, as are corporate…
Reflections on institutional and paradigmatic changes in tourism geography
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