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J.M. Cheer

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Professor at @westernsydneyu.bsky.social Writing + Ranting scholar.google.com.au/citations?use…

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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I bless the rains down in Africa.
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🔥 SAVE THE DATE 🌏 Atlas Critical Tourism Studies-Asia Pacific is pleased to announce that its In-Between Regional Conference will be hosted by Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto on 9-10 March, 2026.
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚩 A Call for Papers 🌏 Special Issue in Tourism Geographies 🧭 Geographies of Personalisation and Immersion in Tourism Experiencescapes 🔗 See full details: www.tgjournal.com/personalisat...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
✅ Cheer, J. M., & Mostafanezhad, M. (2025). On the Verge: the State-of-the-Art in tourism geographies. doi.org/10.1080/1461...
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On the Verge: the State-of-the-Art in tourism geographies
Since the launch of Tourism Geographies in 1999, annual international tourist arrivals have surged from 664 million to 1.4 billion, with greater numbers of domestic tourists traversing within borde...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
🆓 FREE to download. 🔗 Lerfald, M. (2025). Beyond the dichotomy: revisiting endogenous-exogenous dynamics and place-based leadership in second-home development. Tourism Geographies, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/1461...
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Beyond the dichotomy: revisiting endogenous-exogenous dynamics and place-based leadership in second-home development
Spatial unevenness in resource distribution and economic activity presents challenges for regional development, particularly in peripheral regions. Second-home development has emerged as a strategy...
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Rural tourism is a viable pathway towards developing livelihoods + economic diversification, and central to rural revitalisation. The relevance of countryside capital has renewed importance as communities look to identify areas for comparative advantage. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rural revitalisation, rural tourism and countryside capital: a rural society redux
The allure of the rural fringe for touristic activity is longstanding. The prominence of rural tourism was heightened during the pandemic of 2020–2023 as the rush to the countryside intensified. Th...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Szili, G., Butler, G., & Adie, B. A. (2024). From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 85–101. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS
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From Port Misery to Post-Misery? Spectral-geographies and exorcising ‘ghosts’ in Port Adelaide
Through an interpretivist and hauntological approach, our study explores how self-guided ghost walks use ‘spectral-geographies’ to reconcile problematic colonial histories while simultaneously supp...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Ironside, R., & Smith, F. (2024). Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 68–84. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS
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Destabilising the home: place making, dark tourism and the spectral
Ghosts, hauntings and the spectral are intrinsically linked to sites of dark tourism. Supernatural stories commonly emerge in places connected with tragedy, death and the macabre, forming spectral ...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Zhang, Q., & Zhong, S. (2024). The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 49–67. doi.org/10.1080/1461...
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The politics of spectrality in earthquake ruins: remaking dark tourism in hauntology
This study asks how specters have made disaster sites enchanting and important places of dark tourism, resonating with the history of the site and reconciling its current existence. The research is...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Hillier, J., & Fu, S. (2024). Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 31–48. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS
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Dark tourism goes underground: ghostly materialities of Japanese occupation in Datong, China
In north China, memorial museums are often associated with the suffering of victims of the Japanese occupation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945). The Datong Coal Mine Massacre Site Me...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Dan Knox (2024). The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 17–30. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS
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The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage
The spectral geography of the colonial legacy in Bristol is marked by a series of absences from official and tourist narratives about the city. The people and practices of the Atlantic slave trade ...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Martini, A., Sharma, N., & Timothy, D. J. (2025). Dark tourism and spectral geographies: ghosts, memories, and the rupturing of absence and presence. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 1–16. doi.org/10.1080/1461... FREE ACCESS to June 30, 2025
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Dark tourism and spectral geographies: ghosts, memories, and the rupturing of absence and presence
This paper explores the intersection of dark tourism and spectral geographies, offering a critical examination of how spaces of death, disaster, trauma, and painful memories are shaped by hauntings...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Skinner, J. (2025). Haunted by Horace? Twilight tours, guides and the revival of the Gothic. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 120–144. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS
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Haunted by Horace? Twilight tours, guides and the revival of the Gothic
This paper uses a hauntological approach to examine the extent to which the present is haunted by the past. Specifically, it looks at playful indeterminate referentiality and the relationship betwe...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Varnajot, A., & Salim, E. (2024). The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism. Tourism Geographies, 27(1), 102–119. doi.org/10.1080/1461... OPEN ACCESS
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The hauntology of climate change: glacier retreat and dark tourism
In recent decades, glaciers have become infamous symbols of climate change, and as they thaw and retreat, they leave behind haunted spaces favorable for the development of dark tourism practices. C...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Tourism Geographies Vol. 27, Issue 1, 2025 is out now. A Special Issue, "Dark Tourism and Spectral Geographies" Guest editors: 🔸 Anna Martini, Università di Bologna 🔸 Nitasha Sharma, The University of Alabama 🔸 Dallen Timothy, Arizona State University
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🌏 INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION (IGU) Regional Conference 17-21 August 2026, Istanbul University www.irc2026.org/en/ 🚩 IGU COMMISSION ON TOURISM, LEISURE & GLOBAL CHANGE invites session proposals ⏰ Deadline 31 July 2025 📩 Submit a proposal - scan QR code or www.irc2026.org/SessionForm/
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🏝️ The third edition of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Academic Symposium will take place during the GSTC2025 Global Sustainable Tourism Conference in Fiji (August 5–8, 2025)
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚩Time has proved Musk to be a human sink - efficiently draining away value from any particular thing he sits atop 🚩There is remarkably little curiosity about what version of govt elicited widespread acclaim for making America great again Via @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/the-good-soc...
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The Good Society Department | NOEMA
Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Gaza as a tourist zone? “Gaza is on the sea, it has the best climate, a phenomenal location. Everything is great. I looked at pictures; the place looked like a giant ghost town. But you can do incredible things with it.” US President Donald Trump sarajevotimes.com/gaza-as-a-to...
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Gaza as a tourist Resort? Shocking Statements by Trump - Sarajevo Times
His statements reflect the views of his son-in-law and former senior advisor, Jared Kushner, who previously said that coastal real estate in Gaza has “priceless value” and pointed to Gaza’s potential ...
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Global Tourism Geographies: Research | Policy | Practice @tourismgeographies.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Two new episodes are now available in The Tourism Geographies Podcast. shows.acast.com/tourism-geog...
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“Write better papers, write fewer papers.” A mantra for 2025.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 27/12/2024
Commentary: The destruction of monuments, artworks and irreplaceable archives in times of war is an erosion of civilization itself, the attacks born of the same motives that also drive genocide.
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Why cultural heritage must be protected in wartime
Attacks on cultural sites are acts of cultural erasure, born of the same eliminationist motives that also drive genocide.
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Want OPEN ACCESS/FREE TO DOWNLOAD research articles to read over the holiday break and to add to your knowledge library? Tourism Geographies (www.tandfonline.com/journals/rtx...), with the help of Publisher Taylor & Francis has made several recently published papers, free access to 31 DECEMBER.
Gonzalez, V. V., & Kelly, J. L. (2024). Militourism. Tourism Geographies, 1–10.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2417853

Ben Iaquinto (2024). Backpacker tourism: definitions, methods, debates. Tourism Geographies, 1–9. 
(https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2417858)

Xu, S., & Chin Ee Ong (2024). Assembling tigers, dragons and hells: relational materialist geographies of curated themed spaces. Tourism Geographies, 26(7), 1134–1150. 
(https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412551)

Dr Cristina Alexandra Trifan & Prof. (FH) Dr. Claudia Dolezal (2024). Digital voluntourism and sense of place: volunteers’ responsibility towards an ‘imaginary locality.’ Tourism Geographies, 1–20. 
(https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412550)

Kou, L., & Xu, H. (2024). Experiencing therapeutic soundscapes in rural tourism destinations. Tourism Geographies, 26(7), 1151–1176. 
(https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412984)

Sun, Y., Nepal, S. K., & Watanabe, T. (2024). Tourism-generated energy use characteristics and sustainability transitions. Tourism Geographies, 26(7), 1111–1133. 
(https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412542)

Sadeghloo, T., Siamak Seyfi, Yarahmadi, M., C. Michael Hall, & Vo-Thanh, T. (2024). Integrating second home owners into conservative rural communities in a developing country. Tourism Geographies, 26(7), 1197–1222. 
(https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412546)

Lucia Tomassini, PhD (2024). Posthumanism and animal geography: the case of Freya the walrus on media. Tourism Geographies, 1–21. 
(https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2305864)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/12/2024
"Landmark laws across the country have come into existence to preserve things we deem culturally significant. But they don't always protect what we actually want to save," Michael Kimmelman, our architecture critic, writes.
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‘Intangible Heritage’ and How Cities Decide What to Preserve
A gay bar. A bookstore. Fresh salt air. We could learn to preserve what matters most to people.
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
As hot as hades 🔥
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
G’day from Sydney.
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
Desperately seeking chips on Sydney Harbour.
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
West is best 🌞. The bluest of skies 🩵 @Western Sydney University.
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Writing retreat in the Blue Mountains nearly over with colleagues from Western Sydney University!
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
I’m really loving the troll-free bliss of Bluesky 🩵!
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Bluesky dreaming 💭
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Yes. Oui. はい. 是的. Si. نعم. 예. Ja. да.
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J.M. Cheer @jmcheer.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Hello Bluesky 🌏
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