Davide Sterchele
Biographic Data
| ID | 641795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide Sterchele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | Sterchele |
| SIGNATURE | STERCHELE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3864-1631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis
Volunteer tourism has long represented a fruitful realm for the application of geographic perspectives and has greatly benefitted from them. Yet, despite the progress made through multi-, inter-, and intra-disciplinary approaches to the field, its development has notably slowed down and reached a stagnation phase. This is because much scholarship on volunteer tourism has focused on rather dichotomic conceptualisations of the field, and because of…
The development and trial of beyond 2050 polylogues as a tool for future-thinking in business tourism
In this methodology research letter, we describe the development, piloting and large-scale trial of an experimental concurrent group discussion approach. Specifically, we detail how we used provocative 2050 scenarios to ‘open up’ future thinking, facilitate multiple polylogues and efficiently collect large sample qualitative data. The method was trialled with 120 business tourism professionals at the International Congress and Convention Associat…
Being at home and away: Transnational entanglements of tourism and migration in Sardinia, Italy
In this study, we discuss the intersection between tourism and migration. In doing so we interrogate how tourism and migration meet, interrelate, overlap and merge in multifaceted and fluid ways. We draw upon literature on transnational migration and on Sarah Ahmed’s work on the relationship between ‘strange encounters’ and home. These theoretical perspectives enable us to move away from an ‘ontology of the stranger’ and polarised views on migrat…
Memorable tourism experiences and their consequences: An interaction ritual (IR) theory approach
Keeping it liminal. The Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup) as a multifocal interaction ritual
This paper examines how social mixing and celebration of diversity can be enabled through sports festivals marked by their carnivalesque atmosphere. Our analysis draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of the Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup), a non-competitive football tournament and intercultural festival featuring the yearly participation of hardcore football fans (ultras), migrant groups, third-sector associations and other inf…
Managing alternative sports: New organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the ro…
De-sportizing physical activity: From sport-for-development to play-for-development
Although many initiatives use sport as a tool to blur boundaries and foster social mixing, the way physical activity is organised and displayed for such purposes suggests critical refl ections about the potential of sport in terms of social inclusivity. When used for social purposes, mainstream sports often need to be adapted and partially de-structured by downplaying their competitive dimension, blurring categorisations through mixedgender, mixe…
The Limits of Inter-religious Dialogue and the Form of Football Rituals: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina
English The difficulties with interfaith dialogue are linked, at least in part, to the lack of ritual forms (consisting of rules, ceremonial idioms, liturgy, and repertoires of action) designed to unite and integrate the "meta-group "formed by the various religious communities. By means of ethnographic research conducted in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the author studied the mechanisms with which, under particular conditions, some forms of collective ritu…
Memorable tourism experiences and their consequences: An interaction ritual (IR) theory approach
De-sportizing physical activity: From sport-for-development to play-for-development
Although many initiatives use sport as a tool to blur boundaries and foster social mixing, the way physical activity is organised and displayed for such purposes suggests critical refl ections about the potential of sport in terms of social inclusivity. When used for social purposes, mainstream sports often need to be adapted and partially de-structured by downplaying their competitive dimension, blurring categorisations through mixedgender, mixe…
Being at home and away: Transnational entanglements of tourism and migration in Sardinia, Italy
In this study, we discuss the intersection between tourism and migration. In doing so we interrogate how tourism and migration meet, interrelate, overlap and merge in multifaceted and fluid ways. We draw upon literature on transnational migration and on Sarah Ahmed’s work on the relationship between ‘strange encounters’ and home. These theoretical perspectives enable us to move away from an ‘ontology of the stranger’ and polarised views on migrat…
The Limits of Inter-religious Dialogue and the Form of Football Rituals: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina
English The difficulties with interfaith dialogue are linked, at least in part, to the lack of ritual forms (consisting of rules, ceremonial idioms, liturgy, and repertoires of action) designed to unite and integrate the "meta-group "formed by the various religious communities. By means of ethnographic research conducted in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the author studied the mechanisms with which, under particular conditions, some forms of collective ritu…
Keeping it liminal. The Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup) as a multifocal interaction ritual
This paper examines how social mixing and celebration of diversity can be enabled through sports festivals marked by their carnivalesque atmosphere. Our analysis draws on a longitudinal ethnographic study of the Mondiali Antirazzisti (Anti-racist World Cup), a non-competitive football tournament and intercultural festival featuring the yearly participation of hardcore football fans (ultras), migrant groups, third-sector associations and other inf…
Managing alternative sports: New organisational spaces for the diffusion of Italian parkour
This article explores the encounter between parkour as an unstructured and culturally innovative practice, challenging both physical as well as organisational spaces, and UISP (Unione Italiana Sport per Tutti/Italian Union of Sport for All) as a sport-promotion body open to organisational and cultural experimentation. Drawing on a multi-method qualitative approach (analysis of documentary material, interviews and focus groups), it looks at the ro…
De-sportizing physical activity: From sport-for-development to play-for-development
Although many initiatives use sport as a tool to blur boundaries and foster social mixing, the way physical activity is organised and displayed for such purposes suggests critical refl ections about the potential of sport in terms of social inclusivity. When used for social purposes, mainstream sports often need to be adapted and partially de-structured by downplaying their competitive dimension, blurring categorisations through mixedgender, mixe…
Memorable tourism experiences and their consequences: An interaction ritual (IR) theory approach
Being at home and away: Transnational entanglements of tourism and migration in Sardinia, Italy
In this study, we discuss the intersection between tourism and migration. In doing so we interrogate how tourism and migration meet, interrelate, overlap and merge in multifaceted and fluid ways. We draw upon literature on transnational migration and on Sarah Ahmed’s work on the relationship between ‘strange encounters’ and home. These theoretical perspectives enable us to move away from an ‘ontology of the stranger’ and polarised views on migrat…
Towards posthuman geographies of volunteer tourism in a time of polycrisis
Volunteer tourism has long represented a fruitful realm for the application of geographic perspectives and has greatly benefitted from them. Yet, despite the progress made through multi-, inter-, and intra-disciplinary approaches to the field, its development has notably slowed down and reached a stagnation phase. This is because much scholarship on volunteer tourism has focused on rather dichotomic conceptualisations of the field, and because of…
The development and trial of beyond 2050 polylogues as a tool for future-thinking in business tourism
In this methodology research letter, we describe the development, piloting and large-scale trial of an experimental concurrent group discussion approach. Specifically, we detail how we used provocative 2050 scenarios to ‘open up’ future thinking, facilitate multiple polylogues and efficiently collect large sample qualitative data. The method was trialled with 120 business tourism professionals at the International Congress and Convention Associat…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Tourism (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works)