Claudia Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Tourism: Between Place and Performance
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradox…
The Tourism Researcher: Ethical Dilemmas During Fieldwork in Africa, Bali and Myanmar
Fieldwork for academic research does not always take place as planned. The rigorous scrutiny of university Ethics Committees requires a range of promises about in-the-field practice; but these can hinder the achievement of valuable findings. I present examples drawn from experience as an international tourism researcher using qualitative methods. In some situations, observing and listening yielded a far larger story that the researcher's original…
Great Rides’ on New Zealand’s new national cycleway: Pursuing mobility capital
New Zealand has long claimed itself as ‘adventure capital of the world’, a place to engage in a wide range of adventurous activities. The backdrop: extensive areas of grand landscape. A new form of access to this landscape has been developed with the extensive new cycle trails. To date 19 dedicated routes in diverse scenic locations constitute Nga Haerenga, the national cycleway system. The $60 million enterprise, co-sponsored by national and loc…
Older Tourists, Bars, and Instant Conviviality in Pub Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia
This an investigation of older tourists and street life. The purpose is to include this group in accounts of tourist practices, and to invite recognition of the value of such places to this demographic. Distinct tourist zones in popular tourist cities attract patrons of all ages and nationalities. Streets of cafés, bars, and restaurants provide a warm welcome, "local color," sustenance, relaxation, and companionship. Pub Street, Siem Reap, Cambod…
We Feel Like the King and Queen”
International retirement migration ( IRM ) refers to the rapidly growing wave of financially independent individuals from diverse nations seeking affordable, comfortable retirement away from their home nation. The goal is to maximise personal resources to enjoy those last years. Bali Indonesia was ‘not fully tamed by colonialism until the twentieth century.’ In becoming part of Dutch Indonesia it had endured a ‘long and bloody struggle’ (Vickers,…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: International retirement migration on film
The two movies about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012 and 2015) were directed by John Madden. Starring a cast of famous British older actors, the narratives are set in a faded hotel in India. These are individuals who have relocated because their retirement dreams cannot be realised in their home country. They reflect the growing phenomenon of international retirement migration (IRM): the quickly growing upsurge of financially independent ind…
Think of New Zealand as a small town’: Methodological and ethical issues in researching everyday culture
This article explores some of the methodological and ethical issues intrinsic to the processes of carrying out ethnographic research in a very small country, when most participating individuals can be readily identified. The inherent conflicts will be applicable to research in any community where individual participants may be recognised. Internal confidentiality has the potential to place limits on ethical assurances. However, these limitations …
A Vernacular Food Tradition and National Identity in New Zealand
The humble meat pie is one of the most consumed casual takeout foods in New Zealand. Readily available in every bakery, corner dairy, café and gas station, they were traditionally the mainstay of roadside food vendor wagons known as “pie carts.” This paper demonstrates how that modest, familiar feature of everyday life in New Zealand—the roadside pie cart—is a site where values of national identity were/are enacted. Contemporary pie carts no long…
Bar talk in Bali with (s)expat residential tourists
Bali, Indonesia, is a popular destination for retiree migrants. Most people who settle there have experienced Bali as holiday makers. It is this lifestyle mode they hope to continue in their later years, with little concern about impacts on the local culture. For this project, the goal was to investigate various aspects of their new lives: their decisions to relocate, their daily activities, finding and participating in a new community, engagemen…
Tourists infiltrating authentic domestic space at Balinese home cooking schools
Over 2.5 million tourists visit Bali, Indonesia, each year. Attracted by the warm climate, its sheer physical beauty and its reputation for affordability, friendliness and great food, Bali provides an exotic respite from the Western world
Collectors as Guardians of National Artifacts
In New Zealand various modest household artifacts that were produced locally in the 1940s and 1950s have become sought-after collectibles. As resistance to the homogenization brought about by globalization, “kiwiana” collectibles are valued for their distinctive “New Zealandness.” Some collectors construct households in which they can immerse themselves in kiwiana, effectively creating private museums of national artifacts. Their homes become sho…
Kiwiana goes upmarket: Vernacular mobilization in the new century
Kiwiana refers to popular cultural items that distinctly reference New Zealand. This research focuses on the interplay between the material and social worlds, as attitudes to traditional items have evolved to a new, highly commercial, phase. The makers and consumers of new items that draw on the old kiwiana references, ignore, defy, or have simply moved on from the hazardous debates about cross-cultural appropriation. In the face of globalization…
Colliding human–animal trajectories (road kill!) on a Tasmanian journey
Tourists’ experiences of Tasmanian road kill illustrate the juncture at which the representatives and representations of a nation – Australian native animals – human cultural practices and technology collide on the public road. Auto-mobility is a powerful medium through which people experience nature, comfortably insulated against the environment outside, the very world their travels have taken them to explore. In this article I demonstrate the p…
Sarajevska Zima: A Festival Amid War Debris in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Sarajevo Winter Festival (Sarajevska Zima) has been running continuously since 1984. Remarkably, even during the 1990s war and siege the festival continued, with patrons and artists ducking sniper fire to attend events. For the tourist or foreign artist visiting Sarajevo for Sarajevska Zima, the experience is a case study of Dark Tourism. Visitors certainly know about the genocide; they saw it on television. They learnt a new term, `ethnic cl…
Local Claims to Fame: Rural Identity Assertion in New Zealand
Throughout New Zealand, giant roadside objects—sheep, cows, dogs—and murals depicting local history denote local claims to fame. As a collection, these artifacts tell the rural sector's story of agriculture and productivity. The 1980s rural downturn led to a declining rural population and a perceived declining status of rural dwellers. The ongoing construction of place markers indicates that the need to express identity is a continuous project. I…
Tourist Performers at the Crazy House, Dalat, Vietnam
The Hang Nga Guesthouse, better known as the Crazy House, in Dalat, Vietnam, is owned, designed and operated by a Vietnamese architect, Madame Hang Viet Nga, PhD (Moscow). The series of organic bui
The big ‘OE’: Young New Zealand travellers as secular pilgrims
‘OE’ stands for ‘overseas experience,’ a cultural institution in New Zealand. This rite of passage for young adults is an extended journey overseas. While little examined in academia, OE is clearly understood in everyday life, and well documented in fiction and in literary biographies. The journey is a quest or pilgrimage from one of the world’s most remote countries, to the places familiar in national and family histories, popular media, and in …
A Town Called Jenniferann.com
In the year 2000, a small conservative New Zealand town received a new name. Pokeno became JenniferAnn.com. Why take on such a name? Familiar to motorists as the town at the end of the Southern Motorway, in the 1990s Pokeno was also “Bacon Country.” Distinctive welcome signs featured pink pigs that smiled at the 12,000 motorists entering Pokeno daily. They sat within a plethora of messages: Coca Cola, Mobil, Kodak, speed limit signs, and utility …
Roadside Exhibitionism: Outsider Art as Local Landmarks
Community in the new epoch: The social ergonomics of community design
The ‘real’ New Zealand: Rural mythologies perpetuated and commodified
Rural mythologies have long been an important component in expressions of national identity in New Zealand. As a pastoral nation carved from the bush in the nineteenth century, rural dwellers have long claimed their place as ‘backbone of the country’. Rural mythology transmission in New Zealand has taken place historically, through many processes. Fictions about the ‘great way of life’ in the country, involving particular rural values, activities…
The big ‘OE’: Young New Zealand travellers as secular pilgrims
‘OE’ stands for ‘overseas experience,’ a cultural institution in New Zealand. This rite of passage for young adults is an extended journey overseas. While little examined in academia, OE is clearly understood in everyday life, and well documented in fiction and in literary biographies. The journey is a quest or pilgrimage from one of the world’s most remote countries, to the places familiar in national and family histories, popular media, and in …
Tourists infiltrating authentic domestic space at Balinese home cooking schools
Over 2.5 million tourists visit Bali, Indonesia, each year. Attracted by the warm climate, its sheer physical beauty and its reputation for affordability, friendliness and great food, Bali provides an exotic respite from the Western world
The ‘real’ New Zealand: Rural mythologies perpetuated and commodified
Rural mythologies have long been an important component in expressions of national identity in New Zealand. As a pastoral nation carved from the bush in the nineteenth century, rural dwellers have long claimed their place as ‘backbone of the country’. Rural mythology transmission in New Zealand has taken place historically, through many processes. Fictions about the ‘great way of life’ in the country, involving particular rural values, activities…
We Feel Like the King and Queen”
International retirement migration ( IRM ) refers to the rapidly growing wave of financially independent individuals from diverse nations seeking affordable, comfortable retirement away from their home nation. The goal is to maximise personal resources to enjoy those last years. Bali Indonesia was ‘not fully tamed by colonialism until the twentieth century.’ In becoming part of Dutch Indonesia it had endured a ‘long and bloody struggle’ (Vickers,…
A Vernacular Food Tradition and National Identity in New Zealand
The humble meat pie is one of the most consumed casual takeout foods in New Zealand. Readily available in every bakery, corner dairy, café and gas station, they were traditionally the mainstay of roadside food vendor wagons known as “pie carts.” This paper demonstrates how that modest, familiar feature of everyday life in New Zealand—the roadside pie cart—is a site where values of national identity were/are enacted. Contemporary pie carts no long…
Bar talk in Bali with (s)expat residential tourists
Bali, Indonesia, is a popular destination for retiree migrants. Most people who settle there have experienced Bali as holiday makers. It is this lifestyle mode they hope to continue in their later years, with little concern about impacts on the local culture. For this project, the goal was to investigate various aspects of their new lives: their decisions to relocate, their daily activities, finding and participating in a new community, engagemen…
Tourism: Between Place and Performance
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradox…
Sarajevska Zima: A Festival Amid War Debris in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Sarajevo Winter Festival (Sarajevska Zima) has been running continuously since 1984. Remarkably, even during the 1990s war and siege the festival continued, with patrons and artists ducking sniper fire to attend events. For the tourist or foreign artist visiting Sarajevo for Sarajevska Zima, the experience is a case study of Dark Tourism. Visitors certainly know about the genocide; they saw it on television. They learnt a new term, `ethnic cl…
Tourist Performers at the Crazy House, Dalat, Vietnam
The Hang Nga Guesthouse, better known as the Crazy House, in Dalat, Vietnam, is owned, designed and operated by a Vietnamese architect, Madame Hang Viet Nga, PhD (Moscow). The series of organic bui
Community in the new epoch: The social ergonomics of community design
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: International retirement migration on film
The two movies about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012 and 2015) were directed by John Madden. Starring a cast of famous British older actors, the narratives are set in a faded hotel in India. These are individuals who have relocated because their retirement dreams cannot be realised in their home country. They reflect the growing phenomenon of international retirement migration (IRM): the quickly growing upsurge of financially independent ind…
Great Rides’ on New Zealand’s new national cycleway: Pursuing mobility capital
New Zealand has long claimed itself as ‘adventure capital of the world’, a place to engage in a wide range of adventurous activities. The backdrop: extensive areas of grand landscape. A new form of access to this landscape has been developed with the extensive new cycle trails. To date 19 dedicated routes in diverse scenic locations constitute Nga Haerenga, the national cycleway system. The $60 million enterprise, co-sponsored by national and loc…
Collectors as Guardians of National Artifacts
In New Zealand various modest household artifacts that were produced locally in the 1940s and 1950s have become sought-after collectibles. As resistance to the homogenization brought about by globalization, “kiwiana” collectibles are valued for their distinctive “New Zealandness.” Some collectors construct households in which they can immerse themselves in kiwiana, effectively creating private museums of national artifacts. Their homes become sho…
Kiwiana goes upmarket: Vernacular mobilization in the new century
Kiwiana refers to popular cultural items that distinctly reference New Zealand. This research focuses on the interplay between the material and social worlds, as attitudes to traditional items have evolved to a new, highly commercial, phase. The makers and consumers of new items that draw on the old kiwiana references, ignore, defy, or have simply moved on from the hazardous debates about cross-cultural appropriation. In the face of globalization…
A Town Called Jenniferann.com
In the year 2000, a small conservative New Zealand town received a new name. Pokeno became JenniferAnn.com. Why take on such a name? Familiar to motorists as the town at the end of the Southern Motorway, in the 1990s Pokeno was also “Bacon Country.” Distinctive welcome signs featured pink pigs that smiled at the 12,000 motorists entering Pokeno daily. They sat within a plethora of messages: Coca Cola, Mobil, Kodak, speed limit signs, and utility …
The ‘real’ New Zealand: Rural mythologies perpetuated and commodified
Rural mythologies have long been an important component in expressions of national identity in New Zealand. As a pastoral nation carved from the bush in the nineteenth century, rural dwellers have long claimed their place as ‘backbone of the country’. Rural mythology transmission in New Zealand has taken place historically, through many processes. Fictions about the ‘great way of life’ in the country, involving particular rural values, activities…
Community in the new epoch: The social ergonomics of community design
Roadside Exhibitionism: Outsider Art as Local Landmarks
The big ‘OE’: Young New Zealand travellers as secular pilgrims
‘OE’ stands for ‘overseas experience,’ a cultural institution in New Zealand. This rite of passage for young adults is an extended journey overseas. While little examined in academia, OE is clearly understood in everyday life, and well documented in fiction and in literary biographies. The journey is a quest or pilgrimage from one of the world’s most remote countries, to the places familiar in national and family histories, popular media, and in …
A Town Called Jenniferann.com
In the year 2000, a small conservative New Zealand town received a new name. Pokeno became JenniferAnn.com. Why take on such a name? Familiar to motorists as the town at the end of the Southern Motorway, in the 1990s Pokeno was also “Bacon Country.” Distinctive welcome signs featured pink pigs that smiled at the 12,000 motorists entering Pokeno daily. They sat within a plethora of messages: Coca Cola, Mobil, Kodak, speed limit signs, and utility …
Tourist Performers at the Crazy House, Dalat, Vietnam
The Hang Nga Guesthouse, better known as the Crazy House, in Dalat, Vietnam, is owned, designed and operated by a Vietnamese architect, Madame Hang Viet Nga, PhD (Moscow). The series of organic bui
Local Claims to Fame: Rural Identity Assertion in New Zealand
Throughout New Zealand, giant roadside objects—sheep, cows, dogs—and murals depicting local history denote local claims to fame. As a collection, these artifacts tell the rural sector's story of agriculture and productivity. The 1980s rural downturn led to a declining rural population and a perceived declining status of rural dwellers. The ongoing construction of place markers indicates that the need to express identity is a continuous project. I…
Sarajevska Zima: A Festival Amid War Debris in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Sarajevo Winter Festival (Sarajevska Zima) has been running continuously since 1984. Remarkably, even during the 1990s war and siege the festival continued, with patrons and artists ducking sniper fire to attend events. For the tourist or foreign artist visiting Sarajevo for Sarajevska Zima, the experience is a case study of Dark Tourism. Visitors certainly know about the genocide; they saw it on television. They learnt a new term, `ethnic cl…
Kiwiana goes upmarket: Vernacular mobilization in the new century
Kiwiana refers to popular cultural items that distinctly reference New Zealand. This research focuses on the interplay between the material and social worlds, as attitudes to traditional items have evolved to a new, highly commercial, phase. The makers and consumers of new items that draw on the old kiwiana references, ignore, defy, or have simply moved on from the hazardous debates about cross-cultural appropriation. In the face of globalization…
Colliding human–animal trajectories (road kill!) on a Tasmanian journey
Tourists’ experiences of Tasmanian road kill illustrate the juncture at which the representatives and representations of a nation – Australian native animals – human cultural practices and technology collide on the public road. Auto-mobility is a powerful medium through which people experience nature, comfortably insulated against the environment outside, the very world their travels have taken them to explore. In this article I demonstrate the p…
Collectors as Guardians of National Artifacts
In New Zealand various modest household artifacts that were produced locally in the 1940s and 1950s have become sought-after collectibles. As resistance to the homogenization brought about by globalization, “kiwiana” collectibles are valued for their distinctive “New Zealandness.” Some collectors construct households in which they can immerse themselves in kiwiana, effectively creating private museums of national artifacts. Their homes become sho…
A Vernacular Food Tradition and National Identity in New Zealand
The humble meat pie is one of the most consumed casual takeout foods in New Zealand. Readily available in every bakery, corner dairy, café and gas station, they were traditionally the mainstay of roadside food vendor wagons known as “pie carts.” This paper demonstrates how that modest, familiar feature of everyday life in New Zealand—the roadside pie cart—is a site where values of national identity were/are enacted. Contemporary pie carts no long…
Bar talk in Bali with (s)expat residential tourists
Bali, Indonesia, is a popular destination for retiree migrants. Most people who settle there have experienced Bali as holiday makers. It is this lifestyle mode they hope to continue in their later years, with little concern about impacts on the local culture. For this project, the goal was to investigate various aspects of their new lives: their decisions to relocate, their daily activities, finding and participating in a new community, engagemen…
Tourists infiltrating authentic domestic space at Balinese home cooking schools
Over 2.5 million tourists visit Bali, Indonesia, each year. Attracted by the warm climate, its sheer physical beauty and its reputation for affordability, friendliness and great food, Bali provides an exotic respite from the Western world
Think of New Zealand as a small town’: Methodological and ethical issues in researching everyday culture
This article explores some of the methodological and ethical issues intrinsic to the processes of carrying out ethnographic research in a very small country, when most participating individuals can be readily identified. The inherent conflicts will be applicable to research in any community where individual participants may be recognised. Internal confidentiality has the potential to place limits on ethical assurances. However, these limitations …
Older Tourists, Bars, and Instant Conviviality in Pub Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia
This an investigation of older tourists and street life. The purpose is to include this group in accounts of tourist practices, and to invite recognition of the value of such places to this demographic. Distinct tourist zones in popular tourist cities attract patrons of all ages and nationalities. Streets of cafés, bars, and restaurants provide a warm welcome, "local color," sustenance, relaxation, and companionship. Pub Street, Siem Reap, Cambod…
We Feel Like the King and Queen”
International retirement migration ( IRM ) refers to the rapidly growing wave of financially independent individuals from diverse nations seeking affordable, comfortable retirement away from their home nation. The goal is to maximise personal resources to enjoy those last years. Bali Indonesia was ‘not fully tamed by colonialism until the twentieth century.’ In becoming part of Dutch Indonesia it had endured a ‘long and bloody struggle’ (Vickers,…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: International retirement migration on film
The two movies about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012 and 2015) were directed by John Madden. Starring a cast of famous British older actors, the narratives are set in a faded hotel in India. These are individuals who have relocated because their retirement dreams cannot be realised in their home country. They reflect the growing phenomenon of international retirement migration (IRM): the quickly growing upsurge of financially independent ind…
Great Rides’ on New Zealand’s new national cycleway: Pursuing mobility capital
New Zealand has long claimed itself as ‘adventure capital of the world’, a place to engage in a wide range of adventurous activities. The backdrop: extensive areas of grand landscape. A new form of access to this landscape has been developed with the extensive new cycle trails. To date 19 dedicated routes in diverse scenic locations constitute Nga Haerenga, the national cycleway system. The $60 million enterprise, co-sponsored by national and loc…
The Tourism Researcher: Ethical Dilemmas During Fieldwork in Africa, Bali and Myanmar
Fieldwork for academic research does not always take place as planned. The rigorous scrutiny of university Ethics Committees requires a range of promises about in-the-field practice; but these can hinder the achievement of valuable findings. I present examples drawn from experience as an international tourism researcher using qualitative methods. In some situations, observing and listening yielded a far larger story that the researcher's original…
Tourism: Between Place and Performance
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradox…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Tourism (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Business (7 works)