340 research outputs found
From makeshift to makeover : materialising the beach shack as architectural heritage
No full text‘Memories of the family beach shack (or staying at someone else’s family beach shack) are strongly tied to perceptions of traditional Australian values’ (Hosking et al. 2009: 35). This cultural narrative is well established among scholars of various disciplinary persuasions but these narratives are also constituted by materialities. Most notable among these in the patterns of second homes are the motor car, the post-World War II economic boom and increased disposable income, and the desirability and amenity of the places themselves – particularly their relation to the principal “suburban” home (Hall & Muller 2004; Osbaldiston & Picken 2014; Osbaldiston et al. 2015). While generally whether the second home is an apartment, villa, chalet, house, cabin or houseboat has not mattered much beyond marking regional and temporal diversity, some have taken closer account of the second homes themselves. These include, for example, the unique attributes of the New Zealand bachs and cribs (Keen & Hall 2004; Kearns & Collins 2006), midwest American cabins (Hoefferle 2013), Finnish and Canadian cottages (Periainen 2006; Halseth 2004; Svenson 2004) as well as Australian second home shacks (Selwood & Tonts 2004; Atkinson, Picken & Tranter 2009). This chapter contributes to this discussion by drawing insights from the changing relationship between architecture, second homes and cultural heritage as made evident through the Australian beach shack
Rival Queens : Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater /
No full textHistorians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens, Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress.Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens, Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Felicity Nussbaum is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books, including The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
Negotiating the value of "slow" in amenity migration
No full text[Extract] There is no question that amenity migration is multi-layered, requiring as Karen O'Reilly (2012) suggests a tiered approach in research methodology and theoretical considerations. This volume of work, and Moss' (2006) previous edited collection, attests to this logic. While many, including the authors of this chapter, have dealt extensively with question of motivation for retreat into the countryside (Benson, 2011; Moss, 2006; Osbaldiston, 2012; Picken & Franklin, 2012), others have sought to gain an increasing understanding of the extent and impacts of amenity-led migration on townships, their natural surrounds, economies, and resources in small townships (Abrams, et al., 2012; Burnley & Murphy, 2004; Glorioso & Moss, 2007; Halfacree, 2012). Such discussions are vital for the ongoing management of places that have been altered by unprecedented population turnaround in recent years. In an era that is especially dominated by the risks, vulnerabilities, and importantly, the unknowns of climate change, further exploration of the tensions between amenity-led migration and dynamics of environmental and social relations within place is essential
Outdoor swimming: water, wellbeing, and wildness
No full textIn this chapter, we critically reflect on our relationships with water, well-being, and wildness, and consider how these elements are entangled when we immerse our bodies in the cultural practice and social world of outdoor swimming. We explore how swimming outdoors is understood as ‘just swimming’ or ‘wild swimming’, consider the ways in which ideas of the wild and wildness are woven into personal accounts about who we are, where we go, and how we swim, and show how these different understandings change our individual and collective ways of being, feeling, acting, and living. The chapter offers an alternative account of blue space leisure practices that moves away from accounts of water as purely blue and therapeutic, and positions those claims within the realities of the waters we swim in
'So much for Snapshots' : the material relations of tourists as cultural dupes
No full textAcademic publishing houses tend to be in the business of words not images, but is this any reason for tourism scholars to be remiss about photographs themselves? It is a curious fact that very few tourist photographs are included in tourism research despite the importance of the claims that are built upon them. One of these is that cultural dupes are made from tourist photography – that their photographic practices cast them as such – but the duping process is far from convincing or satisfactory particularly in the absence of the photographs themselves. This article tracks down the missing tourist photographs by following the material relations that constitute the duping process and the remarkable, immaterial life of the tourist photograph as a resource for tourism scholarship. Once rediscovered, these photographs can be redeployed and increasingly are deployed in digital forms of materialism that are comparatively flexible, public and mobile. This new material configuration simultaneously casts the cultural dupe as an artefact of the analogue age and this invites examination of the power of digital contexts to trouble existing assumptions. Stengers’ use of the ‘idiot’ can be fruitfully employed to demonstrate a tourist who misbehaves in new technological freedoms, and challenges existing scholarly interpretations and frameworks
The felicity of Queen Elizabeth and her times, with other things /
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The urban push for environmental amenity: the impact of lifestyle migration on local housing markets and communities
No full textAcross the world the impact of lifestyle or amenity migration on small country and coastal townships has been a focal point for the social sciences. In this chapter, we examined coastal townships and regional places across the eastern coastline of Australia and the impact this migratory phenomenon has had on housing and development. Using statistical resources from a state government reporting authority, we analysed and tracked the changes in housing costs, both purchase and rental, since 2001. We also explored three different responses to development within towns that have grown significantly through this phenomenon which demonstrates that at times communities fight vehemently to protect their 'sense of place' through collective action. However, not all responses seek protection from lifestyle migrants and development. As this chapter shows, the division between those who have migrated to the place and local residents can sometimes spill over into public conflict over the destiny of the township. This is pointed directly at the notion to 'protect from' or 'allow' development to expand the boundaries of towns. From this perspective, the question of 'authenticity' that is embedded in different group perceptions becomes an ideal contest between groups and one that suggests that lifestyle migration is an inherently complex phenomenon
Ongoing and future relationships of second home owners with places in coastal Australia: an empirical case study from Eastern Victoria
No full textMany of Australia's second homes are located in peripheral locations along the coast, away from suburbia and cities. Many of these areas have specific challenges relating to a declining or consolidating agricultural sector and the need to diversify economies in a climate of uncertainty. This offers specific challenges for coastal local governments, who are often resource poor, managing transitional economies with unclear futures in terms of current and projected populations. This article begins with this broad landscape and focuses on two southeastern Victorian coastal areas that are known second home hotspots. Our article presents the findings of a residential survey conducted in Inverloch and Philip Island that specifically captured second home owners to discover who they are, why they have a second home in that area, what local area concerns they have, and what they intend to do with their second homes in the future. Within the limitations of our data, we find ambivalence among second home owners as a group, supporting the scholarship that identifies the difficulties of pinning this phenomenon down. That said, there are some discernible patterns among second home owners, particularly when they are put in contrast with the permanent residents of these communities
Tourism, Design and Controversy: Calling on Non-humans to Explain Ourselves
No full text This paper explores the kind of stories non-humans enable us to tell about tourism. It introduces a ‘relational materialist’ approach to investigate tourism through the early life of a building called Zero Davey. In providing upmarket hotel accommodation, Zero Davey imported tourism into a place that is well established as the postcard image of Hobart, Australia’s southern-most city. In adding tourism stock to the Sullivans Cove precinct, Zero Davey acted as an importation device for tourism; however, this was only the first story. The building also delivered a controversy among ‘the people’ who deemed its appearance to be ‘out of keeping’ with Sullivans Cove. While this began to mirror a fairly common dialogue between ‘hosts and guests’, neither the provision of tourist accommodation nor the architecture of the building held any significance to the importation logistics or planning approval for Zero Davey. Instead, this was founded on the building’s ability to respond to a more expert reading of Sullivans Cove and another set of norms associated with ‘geological and urban integrity’. Consequently, there were three ‘buildings’ and no final ‘body’ who could arbitrate or adequately explain Zero Davey because the tourism object, the object of controversy and the object of design were not related to each other except through the building itself. Beginning with this claim gives Zero Davey an interest in the events of its own controversy, a role in its own design and a portion of the explanation for how tourism happens. </jats:p
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