Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Hudson, Martyn

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“…It can even be argued that haunts are fundamentally the tangible personifications of the "spirit and soul" of their surrounding communities and cultures (cf. Hudson, 2017). Of course, ghosts might sometimes also embody aspects of civic, state, national, and universal identities.…”

Section: The Performative Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paranormal Tourism: Market Study of a Novel and Interactive Approach to Space Activation and Monetization

Houran¹,

Hill²,

Haynes

et al. 2020

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

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We review the premise, popularity, and profitability of paranormal tourism, which involves visits to any setting or locale for the explicit purpose of encountering apparent supernatural phenomena for leisure, investigation, services, products, or conventions. This niche sector can offer an inherently engaging conceptual framework for seasonal or year-round space activation and monetization by businesses situated in specific settings or cities. On a broader level, the niche also illustrates how tourism–hospitality brands and operations can navigate and even capitalize on three paradigm shifts that have disrupted contemporary markets, that is, the mobilities, performative, and creative turns. This assertion is underscored with a case analysis of a historic site that successfully leveraged paranormal themes as part of its space reactivation and rebranding. Finally, our market study suggests that the success factors of paranormal tourism might indicate a fourth paradigm shift across the wider tourism–hospitality industry, whereby the experience economy is transforming to an enchantment economy.

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Section: The Performative Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paranormal Tourism: Market Study of a Novel and Interactive Approach to Space Activation and Monetization

Houran¹,

Hill²,

Haynes

et al. 2020

Cornell Hospitality Quarterly

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“…The ethnographic framework of this research developed as part of wider studies of social formations by the authors which tried to combine large-scale social processes with intimate case studies. This has been a distinctive ethnographic project which has often tried to provide a historical ethnography of objects, machines, social beings broadly situated within a phenomenological approach informed by critical theory (Hudson 2015(Hudson , 2016(Hudson , 2017a(Hudson , 2017b(Hudson , 2018(Hudson , 2019Donkin 2016Donkin , 2017. Central to that ethnographic project is the idea of the experimental space as something which can be observed in its use by social beings.…”

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TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation

Hudson

Donkin

2019

AAM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document and describe an omni-disciplinary ethnography of a complex arts and cultural regeneration organisation in Durham (TESTT Space). The organization and its art spaces are hybrid combination tools explicitly designed to test and experiment with ideas, social forms, human interactions and arts practice. Its ground or practice is a repurposed meanwhile space in a city centre embedded in a unique cultural landscape of local communities, a University and a World Heritage Site. The research attempted to understand its groundwork, its interactions and its civic mission and aspirations in a time of radical change and rupture. Design/methodology/approach The authors assumed an ethnographic approach, working with and within this organisation for a year, thinking of the research as embedded, intimate research and committed to social change. It was a work of co-production – working with studio-holders, curators, artists and facilitators using a range of triangulated qualitative research methods. These include structured interviews, auto-ethnography, ethnography of spaces, arts-led research, art as research and research as art. Findings TESTT Space has allowed both the retention of artists in the city and the propulsion of artists into the world. It has offered different ways of engaging in the complex lives of artists and curators, allowing them to test aesthetics and try out new social models. It has thought up its own network as a thinking practice, has developed its own politics, civics and imagined a set of new futures. Originality/value The paper documents interactions and aspirations, describing the lived phenomenological experience of being in this experimental space.

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“…(Hudson, 2017, p. 1) For Gordon, hauntings always register the historical loss, state violence and injustice that remain affective even when these events are 'supposedly over and done with', or when their oppressive nature and effects remain ignored or denied. Like Gordon's concept of haunting, social hauntings are often the consequence of profound physical, psychological and social and economic dislocation (Hudson, 2017). I invite us, however, to think beyond the loss, violence and suffering to recognise that the 'goodness' of the past also remains affective and is haunting the present.…”

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“…Within our histories, within the ghosts that haunt, is where hope lies. There is, as Hudson (2017) argues, an 'angelic' aspect to the spectral. It is the ghost that:…”

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The industrial past as a tool of possibility: Schooling and social class in a former coalfield community

Simpson

2023

The Sociological Review

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This article presents data from ethnographic research carried out at Lillydown Primary, a local authority school in a former coalmining community in South Yorkshire. Complicating Avery Gordon’s concept of haunting, it argues that in order to begin refashioning typical accounts of schooling for the working class, we must reckon with the fullness of ghosts that remain to haunt the fabric of the present. The central argument of the article is that historical, place-based pedagogies and performances work to deliver a more relevant curriculum and experience of schooling that begin to ‘fit’ with pupils’ histories, culture and lived realities. It illustrates how phantomic rhythms of Lillydown’s industrial past have profound social and cultural effects on schooling which can, at least sometimes, encouragingly shape pupils’ experiences of education. It begins to demonstrate how Lillydown Primary is a place of unsettledness, where the something-to-be-done is seething into the present, but ghostly matters still conjure as they are not yet complete. The article argues that there are further spectral potentialities to be reckoned with that could go some way towards forging more critical spaces and pedagogies.

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Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

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Paranormal Tourism: Market Study of a Novel and Interactive Approach to Space Activation and Monetization

Paranormal Tourism: Market Study of a Novel and Interactive Approach to Space Activation and Monetization

TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation

The industrial past as a tool of possibility: Schooling and social class in a former coalfield community

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