Navigating contested memories in a commercialised setting: conflict avoidance strategies in Kyiv city tour guiding by Simon Schlegel, Alena Pfoser

“…This article provides an in-depth examination of memory work of commercial guides, focusing on the example of Russian-language tour guiding in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. Drawing on participant observations of 20 guided city tours and interviews with 18 tour guides, the article identifies a wide range of narrative strategies that guides adopt to navigate pasts that have been subject to memory conflicts. …”
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Bollywood and slum tours: poverty tourism and the Indian cultural industry by Clelia Clini, Deimantas Valančiūnas

“…Following Hesmondalgh’s observation that cultural industries reflect the inequalities of capitalist societies (2007), we examine precisely the relationship between poverty tours, cinema and Bollywood as a cultural industry. …”
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Dancer perceptions of the force reduction of dance floors used by a professional touring ballet company by Luke S. Hopper, Talia J. Wheeler, James Webster, Nick Allen, Jonathan Roberts, Paul Fleming

“…Dancers expressed a preference for floor FR within the mid to upper limits (57% to 72%) of the European standards, although a minority preferred low FR (approximately 36%) floors. …”
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Relationships between DP World Tour Golfers’ drive distance and kinetic variables during a countermovement jump and isometric mid-thigh pull by Tara Bage, Chris Bishop, Dan Coughlan, Jack Wells

“…To date, however, there is no research that has sought to assess the associations between CMJ impulse and DD within elite DP World Tour golfers. Therefore, the aims of this investigation were to assess if CMJ net impulse (NI), CMJ positive impulse (PI) and IMTP PF significantly accounted for the variance in elite DP World Tour golfers’ DD. …”
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Differences in career longevity before and after implementation of the Women's Tennis Association Tour Age Eligibility Rule and Player Development Programmes: a 25-year study by Carol L Otis, Brian Hainline, Chris Harwood, Neeru A Jayanthi, Rick Jensen, Ashley Keber, Emily Kroshus, Thomas Livengood, Kathleen Stroia, Ann Quinn, Sarka Vitkova, Stephanie A Kliethermes

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Tourism and the dynamics of transnational mnemonic encounters by Alena Pfoser, Emily Keightley

“…It examines how tourism works as an arena for the production and circulation of memories through direct transnational encounters, refracting and modifying macro-political memories within a commercialised service environment. We analyse the role of tour guides as mnemonic intermediaries and show how in their work with Russian tourists they navigate pasts that form the subject of on-going memory conflicts at the level of international politics. …”
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Tourism as memory-making: METADATA by Alena Pfoser, Guzel Yusupova, Simon Schlegel

“…It includes both archived data and data that hasn't been archived due to a lack of consent from participants. It includes basic information such as date of data collection, length of recording, participants' gender and age, thematic orientation of guided tours and other contextual information.…”
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Tourism as memory-making - Case study Tallinn by Alena Pfoser, Guzel Yusupova, Simon Schlegel

“…If you are interested in accessing the metadata file and the archived data for the Tallinn case study, please contact the Principal Investigator Dr Alena Pfoser A.Pfoser2@lboro.ac.uk for permission. …”
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Tourism as memory-making - Case study Kyiv by Simon Schlegel, Alena Pfoser, Guzel Yusupova

“…The file includes basic information such as date of data collection, length of recording, participants' gender and age, thematic orientation of guided tours and other information.- 18 transcripts of interviews with tour guides (subfolder: Tour guide interviews - file names: CS2_Tour guide interview1-18) - 7 transcripts of expert interviews with heritage and tourism stakeholders (subfolder: Stakeholder interviews - file names: CS2_interview_expert2-9)The permission to archive was not given for all case study data. …”
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Tourism as memory-making - Case study Almaty by Guzel Yusupova, Alena Pfoser, Simon Schlegel

“…The file includes basic information such as date of data collection, length of recording, participants' gender and age, thematic orientation of guided tours and other information. - 9 interview transcripts of interviews with tour guides (subfolder: Tour guide interviews - file names CS3_Tour guide interview1-9.docx) - 10 interview transcripts of interviews with tourists (subfolder: Tourist interviews - file names CS3_Tourist interviews1-11) The permission to archive was not given for all case study data. …”
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Video and a sense of the invisible: approaching domestic energy consumption through the sensory home by Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley

“…Our concern is chiefly methodological: first, we take a biography of method approach to explain and identify the status of the research knowledge this approach can produce; second, we outline how the video tour as a multisensorial and collaborative research encounter can open up understandings of home as place-event; finally, we probe the status of video as ethnographic description by inviting the reader/viewer to access ways of knowing as they are inscribed in embedded clips, in relation to our written argument. …”
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The opportunities that different cultural contexts create for sustainable design: a laundry care example by Jak Spencer, Debra Lilley, Samantha Porter

“…In-context interviews, observations and household tours were carried out in 19 households across three sites; The East Midlands, UK; Curitiba, Brazil; and Bangalore, India. …”
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Visitor’s physical activity behaviour in protected natural areas: A case study of Alt Pirineu Natural Park, Spain by Estela Inés Farías Torbidoni, Sebatstià Mas Alòs, Susana Monserrat-Revillo, Gonzalo Gil

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Roberta Bernabei Contemporary Jewellery by Roberta Bernabei, Bruno Cora, Andrew A. Stonyer

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<i>Lava Lamp</i> by Michael Shaw

“…Lava Lamp is an inflatable sculpture measuring 45m in length from end to end and occupies dimensions of 16.7 x 10.6 x 3.8m. …”
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