All Outputs (28)

Self-care for the researcher: dark tourism in Varanasi, India (2017)
Journal Article
Sharma, N., & Rickly, J. M. (2018). Self-care for the researcher: dark tourism in Varanasi, India. Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism, 18(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2017.1403801

Dark tourism is a popular niche of tourism that allows tourists to come into close proximity with death, atrocity, and the macabre, and therefore has the potential to be an emotional and even traumatic encounter for tourists. While this context has i... Read More about Self-care for the researcher: dark tourism in Varanasi, India.

“They all have a different vibe”: a rhythmanalysis of climbing mobilities and the Red River Gorge as place (2017)
Journal Article
Rickly, J. (2017). “They all have a different vibe”: a rhythmanalysis of climbing mobilities and the Red River Gorge as place. Tourist Studies, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797617717637

This paper integrates a mobilities perspective and Lefebvre’s notion of rhythmanalysis as a means interrogate place as an entanglement of mobilities, moorings, and rhythms. By investigating one popular rock climbing destination, this paper demonstrat... Read More about “They all have a different vibe”: a rhythmanalysis of climbing mobilities and the Red River Gorge as place.

Contesting authentic practice and ethical authority in adventure tourism (2017)
Journal Article
Rickly, J., & Vidon, E. S. (in press). Contesting authentic practice and ethical authority in adventure tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2017.1284856

This paper examines the discourses of authenticity and ethics used among adventure tourists regarding the use of the natural environment. In one case, full-time traveling rock climbers use their dedication to the sport and annual visits to the Red Ri... Read More about Contesting authentic practice and ethical authority in adventure tourism.

“I’m a Red River local”: rock climbing mobilities and community hospitalities (2017)
Journal Article
Rickly, J. (2017). “I’m a Red River local”: rock climbing mobilities and community hospitalities. Tourist Studies, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797616685648

With individuals continually on the move, mobility fosters constellations of places at which individuals collectively moor and perform community. By focusing on one climbing destination – the Red River Gorge – this paper works across scales to highli... Read More about “I’m a Red River local”: rock climbing mobilities and community hospitalities.

The (re)production of climbing space: bodies, gestures, texts (2016)
Journal Article
Rickly, J. (2016). The (re)production of climbing space: bodies, gestures, texts. cultural geographies, https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016649399

According to Lefebvre, space is not an absolute given, an empty and presumed starting point, but space is produced through human action. Further, he contends, there is a material basis to the production of space – the “practical and fleshy body”. The... Read More about The (re)production of climbing space: bodies, gestures, texts.

The fantasy of authenticity: Touring with Lacan (2016)
Journal Article
Knudsen, D. C., Rickly, J., & Vidon, E. S. (2016). The fantasy of authenticity: Touring with Lacan. Annals of Tourism Research, 58, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2016.02.003

Despite considerable research regarding the meaning of authenticity, there remains uncertainty as to the work authenticity performs in tourism. Existential authenticity conceptually shifts focus from the objects of touristic practice to a sense of Be... Read More about The fantasy of authenticity: Touring with Lacan.

Touring as a Peircean habit (2016)
Journal Article
Knudsen, D. C., Rickly, J. M., & Metro-Roland, M. M. (2016). Touring as a Peircean habit. Annals of Tourism Research, 57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2015.12.014

The Peircean sign contains three parts: object, representamen (image) and interpretant (interpretation). Interpretation in the Peircean system draws heavily upon the accumulated knowledge that an individual has built up over time. Interpretation mi... Read More about Touring as a Peircean habit.

Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing (2014)
Journal Article
Rickly, J. M. (2014). Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing. Mobilities, 12(2), 243-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2014.977667

The conceptualization of 'lifestyle mobilities' has yet to fully account for the diversity within and across mobile communities in terms of leisure, travel, and identity. Lifestyle rock climbers, for example, maintain minimalist, hypermobile lifestyl... Read More about Lifestyle mobilities: a politics of lifestyle rock climbing.