The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies
Digital Artefact
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024)
The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies. [Online newspaper]
Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pos...
Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram
Journal Article
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (in press)
Holocaust heritage digilantism on Instagram. Tourism Recreation Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2022.2153994
Discursive, netnographic and visual methods have been applied in the past to critique self-images, providing insight into the behaviours of tourists. However, such studies hav...
“Hayan na ang mga Hampas-dugo! (the Penitents are coming!)”: Penitensya as Religious-Dark Tourism
Journal Article
Wight, C., & Victoria, M. (2022)
“Hayan na ang mga Hampas-dugo! (the Penitents are coming!)”: Penitensya as Religious-Dark Tourism. Tourist Studies, 22(1), 89-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976211067261
This paper applies indigenous research methods to understand the motives of visitors attending Penitensya (a Lenten Filipino ritual involving violent ritualistic performances)...
Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis
Journal Article
Wight, A. C. (2020)
Visitor Perceptions of European Holocaust Heritage: A Social Media Analysis. Tourism Management, 81, Article 104142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104142
This study presents a netnographic discourse analysis of social media content generated around three high profile European Holocaust heritage sites: Ann Frank’s House in Amste...
Putting Foucault to work in tourism research
Journal Article
Wight, A. C. (2019)
Putting Foucault to work in tourism research. International Journal of Tourism Research, 21(1), 122-133. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2246
This paper reflects on Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge as a methodological approach in tourism research. It offers lessons from recent research focused on critiquing herit...
Directions, disconnect and critique: round table discussion
Journal Article
Lennon, J. J., Seaton, T. V., & Wight, C. (2017)
Directions, disconnect and critique: round table discussion. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 9(2), 228-239. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-12-2016-0074
Purpose
This paper aims to review developments in dark tourism research over a 20-year period from its inception in 1996. This paper also considers the reasons why people visi...
Lithuanian genocide heritage as discursive formation
Journal Article
Wight, A. C. (2016)
Lithuanian genocide heritage as discursive formation. Annals of Tourism Research, 59, 60-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2016.04.002
This paper presents a synthesis of Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge and the concept of discursive formation to critique museums and sites of memory as spaces in which compe...