Kevin Markwell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 787785 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kevin Markwell |
| PRENOMES | Kevin |
| SOBRENOME | Markwell |
| ASSINATURA | MARKWELL K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Southern Cross University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1814-1480 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 308 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Exploring queer people of colour's perceptions of pride in Sydney
Pride events in majority-White contexts reflect social structures and power relations which privilege individuals from that group. The normative Whiteness that shapes these societies influence the dominance of Whiteness in queer spaces and Pride events which take place in them. This paper focused on queer people of colour (QPoC), in Australia, to understand how their intersectional identities shape perceptions of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi …
Drawing a line in the sand
As a form of leisure, Pride events offer LGBTQI+ people a chance to gain visibility, advocate for their rights, and construct and express their identity. The benefits such events offer are particularly crucial within rural communities, often perceived to be heteronormative spaces that may exhibit greater levels of prejudice against sexually and gender-diverse individuals. This paper examines the perceived social impacts Pride events can have with…
Getting close to a national icon
Animal-based experiences are a significant feature of the attractions profile of many tourist destinations. The koala is an iconic species that plays an important role in Australian tourism, both symbolically and materially. Due to the species being endemic to Australia and its human baby-like qualities together with numerous and long-standing representations in popular culture, the koala has become an integral component of Australia’s destinatio…
Koalas, bushfires and climate change
Sympathy for the Devil? Uncovering Inhibitors and Enablers of Emotional Engagement Between Zoo Visitors and the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisi
This article explores enablers and inhibitors of emotional engagement between visitors and Tasmanian devils at Healesville Sanctuary, Australia. A qualitative research approach was utilized including 44 interviews (ten with staff and 34 with visitors) and eight hours of observations of 622 visitors. Findings are presented in relation to six themes: (a) visitors’ motivations for viewing Tasmanian devils, (b) visitors’ emotional responses to Tasman…
Relating to reptiles
In this paper, I explore my life-long interest in amateur herpetology using an autoethnographic methodology and, in doing so, reveal the varied intersections of animals, leisure, place and identity within my own life experience. Informed by serious leisure theory and Stebbins’ concept of the ‘leisure career’, I reflect on aspects of my life-history from childhood and adolescence through to the present day as a 56-year-old Anglo-Australian male, t…
Introduction
This special issue of Annals of Leisure Research provides an opportunity to critically consider social relationships with nature as they are constituted in, and through, leisure settings, practices
An assessment of wildlife tourism prospects in Papua New Guinea
This paper examines wildlife tourism in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from both a demand and supply perspective. PNG, a developing nation, situated just north of Australia, is located in a ‘biodiversity hotspot’ and its wildlife comprises a large number of species or groups of species, including many which are endemic to the nation, that would appear, on face value, to be highly attractive to tourists. An assessment is made of the wildlife tourism prosp…
The Bird was a Valuable One”
Australian native, nonhuman animals at first intrigued and then disappointed newcomers as Australia was colonized by the British in the late eighteenth century. They were disparaged as unproductive and unpalatable oddities, killed as competitors to introduced species, or harvested as a source of fur and feathers for export. Focusing on the period 1803 to 1939, this paper examines one exception to this general pattern: the keeping of native animal…
Building tourism research capacity in Papua New Guinea
Blood on the race track
Horse and greyhound racing are leisure activities that have significance that transcends their economic impacts as they feature strongly in Australian national identity. Considerable public distress was unleashed when two horses died following the running of the 2014 Melbourne Cup, and several months later, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners programme exposed, in February 2015, systemic cruelty in the greyhound industry involv…
Gay and Lesbian Tourism
Animals and Tourism
This book critically examines the many ways in which tourism and animals intersect and aims to make a meaningful contribution to the growing body of knowledge concerning the relationships between animals, tourists and the tourism industry.
‘I Don’t Want to Think I Am a Prostitute’
Insights into the relations between men, masculinities, travel and the gay tourism industry are typically ethnocentric, privileging Western perspectives (Waitt and Markwell, 2006). Our chapter addresses this ethnocentric bias by focusing on the narratives of men who live their lives as Indonesians - particularly those who have migrated to Bali having learnt of the commercial gay venues in the district of Seminyak. Bali is still not an internation…
The “killer of the cane fields”
This paper makes an original contribution to human–animal studies through the application of social construction theory to an iconic species of Australian snake, the coastal taipan. Little research attention using this approach has been focused on reptiles, and this study addresses this gap in the literature. The taipan has achieved a high level of notoriety in Australia. This paper seeks to understand why and how this has occurred. Drawing on a …
From netnography to autonetnography in tourism studies
Gay Tourism
The gay tourism industry—a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as ’gay’ destinations. This careful examina…
Garden tourism
The application of netnography in tourism studies
Slow Tourism
Platypus diplomacy
Making use of government archives, media coverage and family biography, this paper examines a little studied aspect of human-animal relations: the use of live native fauna as gifts for diplomatic purposes. Gifts of platypuses from the Australian government to their British and American allies in 1943 and 1947 reflect the status then enjoyed by iconic Australian fauna as a resource to be exploited in the national interest. The great scientific and…
Violence, Cultural Display and the Suspension of Sexual Prejudice
Festivals, Space and Sexuality
This paper explores the emergence of gay pride festivals in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, in the wake of the emergence and consolidation of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as one of the pre-eminent international tourism festivals staged in Australia. We argue that to understand the crucial role gay pride festivals play in processes of social change surrounding sexuality Down-Under it is essential to take spatiality seriously.We o…
Balancing Biography and Institutional History
When a young naturalist opened his new wildlife park at Wyoming on the NSW Central Coast in the late 1950s, he gave it his own name: Eric Worrell's Australian Reptile Park. Through the park, Worrell made a significant contribution to environmental education, the development of knowledge of captive animal care and display and the provision of antivenoms for the bites of a range of dangerous creatures. More than this, it was the geographic and emot…
Challenging heteronormativity in tourism studies
This article reviews work that challenges heteronormativity in tourism studies primarily from, but not restricted to, the discipline of geography. Indeed, tourism studies has benefited greatly from the growth of interdisciplinary research between geography, anthropology, sociology, as well as more recent interactions with queer, gender and leisure studies. In this context, as geographers, our aim is to use an explicitly geographical perspective t…
Mardi Gras Tourism and the Construction of Sydney as an International Gay and Lesbian City
The recent emergence of Sydney as the “gay capital of the South Pacific” and as an important destination in the itineraries of lesbian and gay tourists has been closely tied to the growth and development of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and to the concomitant expansion and rapid diversification of the Australian gay and lesbian tourism industry, especially since the early 1990s. Beginning as an evening street parade following a day of pol…
Dimensions of photography in a nature-based tour
Challenging heteronormativity in tourism studies
This article reviews work that challenges heteronormativity in tourism studies primarily from, but not restricted to, the discipline of geography. Indeed, tourism studies has benefited greatly from the growth of interdisciplinary research between geography, anthropology, sociology, as well as more recent interactions with queer, gender and leisure studies. In this context, as geographers, our aim is to use an explicitly geographical perspective t…
Festivals, Space and Sexuality
This paper explores the emergence of gay pride festivals in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, in the wake of the emergence and consolidation of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as one of the pre-eminent international tourism festivals staged in Australia. We argue that to understand the crucial role gay pride festivals play in processes of social change surrounding sexuality Down-Under it is essential to take spatiality seriously.We o…
The application of netnography in tourism studies
An intimate rendezvous with nature’
This article examines the interactions between tourists and nature at three nature-based tourist attractions in the East Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the tourist body is implicated in these experiences and it argues that the body plays a crucial role in these experiences, sometimes ‘getting in the way’ of enjoyment of nature. The article also discusses the various boundaries …
Photo‐Documentation and Analyses as Research Strategies in Human Geography
Footsteps and memories
This article is concerned with the currently common deployment, under the rubric of cultural planning, of place‐making and local cultural heritage awareness projects. Such exercises sometimes seek to accommodate the impacts of de‐industrialisation and urban transformation by identifying and marking places of contemporary and historical significance, and interpreting them and their broader connections to people and to place. The article critically…
Drawing a line in the sand
As a form of leisure, Pride events offer LGBTQI+ people a chance to gain visibility, advocate for their rights, and construct and express their identity. The benefits such events offer are particularly crucial within rural communities, often perceived to be heteronormative spaces that may exhibit greater levels of prejudice against sexually and gender-diverse individuals. This paper examines the perceived social impacts Pride events can have with…
Space and place in gay men’s leisure
This paper explores the use of spaces and places by gay men as sites for leisure in the industrial city of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Eleven gay men were asked to photographically document the places / spaces in Newcastle which had significance to them, and the resulting photographic collection was subject to content analysis in order to uncover any discernible patterns. The men were later interviewed about their photographs and this information …
Using personal diaries to collect data
Exploring queer people of colour's perceptions of pride in Sydney
Pride events in majority-White contexts reflect social structures and power relations which privilege individuals from that group. The normative Whiteness that shapes these societies influence the dominance of Whiteness in queer spaces and Pride events which take place in them. This paper focused on queer people of colour (QPoC), in Australia, to understand how their intersectional identities shape perceptions of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi …
Relating to reptiles
In this paper, I explore my life-long interest in amateur herpetology using an autoethnographic methodology and, in doing so, reveal the varied intersections of animals, leisure, place and identity within my own life experience. Informed by serious leisure theory and Stebbins’ concept of the ‘leisure career’, I reflect on aspects of my life-history from childhood and adolescence through to the present day as a 56-year-old Anglo-Australian male, t…
Blood on the race track
Horse and greyhound racing are leisure activities that have significance that transcends their economic impacts as they feature strongly in Australian national identity. Considerable public distress was unleashed when two horses died following the running of the 2014 Melbourne Cup, and several months later, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners programme exposed, in February 2015, systemic cruelty in the greyhound industry involv…
Explorations in 'Event Ecology
Mega-events increasingly shape and reinforce the identities and economies of cities and nations. Major sporting events such as the Olympic Games attract enormous interest, consume vast resources and generate substantial material and cultural capital. In what has become a competition of place and identity, an ecology of events can be discerned which highlights the considerable differences that exist between events in terms of their nature and inte…
Platypus diplomacy
Making use of government archives, media coverage and family biography, this paper examines a little studied aspect of human-animal relations: the use of live native fauna as gifts for diplomatic purposes. Gifts of platypuses from the Australian government to their British and American allies in 1943 and 1947 reflect the status then enjoyed by iconic Australian fauna as a resource to be exploited in the national interest. The great scientific and…
Violence, Cultural Display and the Suspension of Sexual Prejudice
From netnography to autonetnography in tourism studies
Exploring participants' experiences of the Gay Games
Sport is a social institution that has a considerable impact on the shaping of gay and lesbian subjects. On the eve of the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago and its new rival, the Outgames, in Montreal, this article explores dimensions of participation in such gay and lesbian sports events through a study (based on participant observation and interviews) of their most recent major predecessor, the Sydney 2002 Gay Games. In particular, it points to the ce…
The “killer of the cane fields”
This paper makes an original contribution to human–animal studies through the application of social construction theory to an iconic species of Australian snake, the coastal taipan. Little research attention using this approach has been focused on reptiles, and this study addresses this gap in the literature. The taipan has achieved a high level of notoriety in Australia. This paper seeks to understand why and how this has occurred. Drawing on a …
Perceptions of Artificial Reefs as Scuba Diving Resources
Marine-based recreation and tourism activities have experienced substantial growth over the past few decades and concerns about the ecological sustainability of many of these activities have been recognised by researchers, policy-makers and the recreation and tourism industries. One strategy to deal with diver-induced impacts is the creation of new or artificial reefs which, when established, can become substitute dive sites for more naturally oc…
Constructing, Presenting and Interpreting Nature
This paper examines the ways in which the experience of nature is mediated via its construction, presentation and interpretation within the specific domain of tourism. It is argued that the concept of nature is characterised by ambiguity and contradiction, and that the understandings of, and meanings attached to, nature by tourists are not constant, fixed or homogenous. The data for the paper were derived from a study of a three-week nature-based…
Getting close to a national icon
Animal-based experiences are a significant feature of the attractions profile of many tourist destinations. The koala is an iconic species that plays an important role in Australian tourism, both symbolically and materially. Due to the species being endemic to Australia and its human baby-like qualities together with numerous and long-standing representations in popular culture, the koala has become an integral component of Australia’s destinatio…
Koalas, bushfires and climate change
Introduction
This special issue of Annals of Leisure Research provides an opportunity to critically consider social relationships with nature as they are constituted in, and through, leisure settings, practices
Building a research base in Australian tourism
Building a research base in tourism
Ecotourist-Attraction Systems
Attractions play a central role in any tourist experience. They provide the settings and stimuli for the varied recreational activities tourists participate in, as well as functioning as important social and cultural symbols. This pa per seeks to explore two aspects of ecotourist attraction systems: the different ways by which attractions may be used by ecotourists and non-ecotourists; and the tensions which exist between the ecotourist's demands…
Dimensions of photography in a nature-based tour
Space and place in gay men’s leisure
This paper explores the use of spaces and places by gay men as sites for leisure in the industrial city of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Eleven gay men were asked to photographically document the places / spaces in Newcastle which had significance to them, and the resulting photographic collection was subject to content analysis in order to uncover any discernible patterns. The men were later interviewed about their photographs and this information …
Using personal diaries to collect data
Photo‐Documentation and Analyses as Research Strategies in Human Geography
Seeing is Believing is Knowing
An intimate rendezvous with nature’
This article examines the interactions between tourists and nature at three nature-based tourist attractions in the East Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the tourist body is implicated in these experiences and it argues that the body plays a crucial role in these experiences, sometimes ‘getting in the way’ of enjoyment of nature. The article also discusses the various boundaries …
Mardi Gras Tourism and the Construction of Sydney as an International Gay and Lesbian City
The recent emergence of Sydney as the “gay capital of the South Pacific” and as an important destination in the itineraries of lesbian and gay tourists has been closely tied to the growth and development of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and to the concomitant expansion and rapid diversification of the Australian gay and lesbian tourism industry, especially since the early 1990s. Beginning as an evening street parade following a day of pol…
Constructing, Presenting and Interpreting Nature
This paper examines the ways in which the experience of nature is mediated via its construction, presentation and interpretation within the specific domain of tourism. It is argued that the concept of nature is characterised by ambiguity and contradiction, and that the understandings of, and meanings attached to, nature by tourists are not constant, fixed or homogenous. The data for the paper were derived from a study of a three-week nature-based…
Footsteps and memories
This article is concerned with the currently common deployment, under the rubric of cultural planning, of place‐making and local cultural heritage awareness projects. Such exercises sometimes seek to accommodate the impacts of de‐industrialisation and urban transformation by identifying and marking places of contemporary and historical significance, and interpreting them and their broader connections to people and to place. The article critically…
Perceptions of Artificial Reefs as Scuba Diving Resources
Marine-based recreation and tourism activities have experienced substantial growth over the past few decades and concerns about the ecological sustainability of many of these activities have been recognised by researchers, policy-makers and the recreation and tourism industries. One strategy to deal with diver-induced impacts is the creation of new or artificial reefs which, when established, can become substitute dive sites for more naturally oc…
Explorations in 'Event Ecology
Mega-events increasingly shape and reinforce the identities and economies of cities and nations. Major sporting events such as the Olympic Games attract enormous interest, consume vast resources and generate substantial material and cultural capital. In what has become a competition of place and identity, an ecology of events can be discerned which highlights the considerable differences that exist between events in terms of their nature and inte…
Exploring participants' experiences of the Gay Games
Sport is a social institution that has a considerable impact on the shaping of gay and lesbian subjects. On the eve of the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago and its new rival, the Outgames, in Montreal, this article explores dimensions of participation in such gay and lesbian sports events through a study (based on participant observation and interviews) of their most recent major predecessor, the Sydney 2002 Gay Games. In particular, it points to the ce…
Challenging heteronormativity in tourism studies
This article reviews work that challenges heteronormativity in tourism studies primarily from, but not restricted to, the discipline of geography. Indeed, tourism studies has benefited greatly from the growth of interdisciplinary research between geography, anthropology, sociology, as well as more recent interactions with queer, gender and leisure studies. In this context, as geographers, our aim is to use an explicitly geographical perspective t…
Platypus diplomacy
Making use of government archives, media coverage and family biography, this paper examines a little studied aspect of human-animal relations: the use of live native fauna as gifts for diplomatic purposes. Gifts of platypuses from the Australian government to their British and American allies in 1943 and 1947 reflect the status then enjoyed by iconic Australian fauna as a resource to be exploited in the national interest. The great scientific and…
Violence, Cultural Display and the Suspension of Sexual Prejudice
Festivals, Space and Sexuality
This paper explores the emergence of gay pride festivals in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, in the wake of the emergence and consolidation of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras as one of the pre-eminent international tourism festivals staged in Australia. We argue that to understand the crucial role gay pride festivals play in processes of social change surrounding sexuality Down-Under it is essential to take spatiality seriously.We o…
Balancing Biography and Institutional History
When a young naturalist opened his new wildlife park at Wyoming on the NSW Central Coast in the late 1950s, he gave it his own name: Eric Worrell's Australian Reptile Park. Through the park, Worrell made a significant contribution to environmental education, the development of knowledge of captive animal care and display and the provision of antivenoms for the bites of a range of dangerous creatures. More than this, it was the geographic and emot…
Slow Tourism
Gay Tourism
The gay tourism industry—a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as ’gay’ destinations. This careful examina…
Garden tourism
The application of netnography in tourism studies
Gay and Lesbian Tourism
Sociology (28 obras) · Geography (23 obras) · Tourism (17 obras) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (16 obras) · Archaeology (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (12 obras) · Business (10 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras)