A5068252717- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Youth Development and Social Support
Leeds Beckett University
2022-2025
Evaluating the impact of sport for development is fraught with practical and methodological challenges. The evaluator often presented complex messy social realities compounded by ill‐defined interventions hard‐to‐follow outcomes. Further, those subject to an evaluation can feel under spotlight little contribution research programme, which complicates potentially informative learning developmental processes evaluation. This article provides introduction ripple effects mapping (REM) as...
This article focuses on the crisis of precarious work/livelihoods that pervades global tourism industry and prevents many from experiencing fair just employment. Drawing an ethnographic study high-altitude mountaineering in Himalaya, we explore various ways which mountain workers are precarious, vulnerable, marginalised often overlooked context cross-border practices. concepts justice fairness argue ongoing racial social contours colonialism give privileges to some bodies not "Others,"...
In this paper, we reflect on the challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in tourism research. Specifically, discuss intense, messy and complex dynamics doing (tourism) fieldwork, highlighting how key have affected us as researchers, our practises, relationships experiences field. Our reflections are illustrated considering respectively research mountaineering Himalayas, walking China, horse-riding UK volunteer Peru. Although these fields very different social geopolitical contexts, experienced...
AbstractThis paper examines the narratives of three deceased high-altitude mountaineers who lost their lives while climbing in Greater Himalaya. These individuals were participants part a larger ethnographic study on 'Tourism Death Zone' conducted over space 150 days fieldwork Pakistan and Nepal 2019. The seeks to explore how these depth immersion 'social world' mountaineering eventually lead deaths. To do so, phenomenological concept lifeworld [lebenswelt] is utilized show lived realities...