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Researcher: Franklin, AS (Professor Adrian Franklin)

Fields of Research

Sociology
Other Indigenous studies
Social theory
Social change
Cultural studies
Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment
Tourism
Urban sociology and community studies
Anthropology
Sociology and social studies of science and technology
Consumption and everyday life
Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
Critical heritage, museum and archive studies
Other creative arts and writing
Social and cultural anthropology
Environmental sociology
Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
Social geography
Architectural heritage and conservation
Tourism management
Tourist behaviour and visitor experience
Welfare economics
Impacts of tourism
Visual arts
Architectural design
Sociological methodology and research methods
Australian history
Veterinary sciences
Other built environment and design
Tourism resource appraisal
Health promotion

Research Objectives

Other culture and society
Expanding knowledge in human society
Pacific Peoples community services
Tourism services
Socio-cultural issues in tourism
Arts
Recreation and leisure activities (excl. sport and exercise)
Other environmental management
Heritage
Families and family services
Communication
Mental health
Social structure and health
Other health
The creative arts
Urban planning
Tourism infrastructure development
Conserving collections and movable cultural heritage
Expanding knowledge in psychology
Income distribution
Public services policy advice and analysis
Understanding climate change
Government and politics
Music
Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies
Conserving natural heritage
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Social class and inequalities
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Social impacts of climate change and variability
Behaviour and health
Residential building management and services
Civics and citizenship
Expanding knowledge in built environment and design
Environmental education and awareness
Other information and communication services
Other Indigenous
Gender and sexualities

Career Best Publications

'Be[a]ware of the dog': A post-humanist approach to housing; Housing, Theory and Society
A Choreography of Fire. A Posthumanist Account of Australians and Eucalypts; The Mangle in Practice. Sciences, Society and Becoming
Aboriginalia: Souvenir Wares and the 'Aboriginalization' of Australian Identity; Tourist Studies: An International Journal
An unpopular food? The distaste for fish and the decline of fish consumption in Britain; Food and Foodways
Animal Nation; University of New South Wales Press
Animals and Modern Cultures; Sage
Animals and modernity: changing human-animal relations, 1949-98; Journal of Sociology
Burning cities: a posthumanist account of Australians and eucalypts; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
City Life; Sage
Collecting the 20th Century; University of New South Wales Press
Consuming design: consuming retro; The Changing Consumer: Markets and Meanings
Ethnography and Housing Studies; Ethnography in Context
Explaining Support for Animal Rights: A Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Postmodernity; Society and Animals
Family networks, reciprocity and housing wealth; Housing and Family Wealth
Housing, loneliness and health; AHURI Essay Housing, loneliness and health
Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Australia: An Overview of Results from the First National Survey and Follow-up Case Studies 2000-2004; Society and Animals
Investigating the therapeutic benefits of companion animals: Problems and challenges; Qualitative Sociology Review
Nature and Social Theory; Sage Publications Ltd
Neo-Darwinian Leisures, the Body and Nature: Hunting and Angling in Modernity; Body and Society
On Fox-hunting and Angling: Norbert Elias and the 'Sportisation' Process; Journal of Historical Sociology
On fox-hunting and angling: Norbert Elias and the Sportisation process; In: Sage Masters of Modern Social Thought - Norbert Elias
On Loneliness; Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
Performing Acclimatisation: The Agency of Trout Fishing in Postcolonial Australia; Ethnos
The ethics of second-hand consumption; Ethical Consumption
The tourism ordering. Taking tourism more seriously as a globalising ordering; Civilisations
The Tourist Syndrome: an Interview with Zygmunt Bauman; Tourist Studies
The trouble with tourism and travel theory?; Tourist Studies: an international journal
Tourism - An Introduction; Sage Publications

Research Publications

Research Projects

2012: Fourth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, USA; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Animals and Australian Society; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Contemporary Aboriginal communities in Tasmania; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Creating the Bilbao Effect: MONA and the Social and Cultural Coordinates of Urban Regeneration Through Arts Tourism; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Loneliness, Housing and Health in Australia: An Essay; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Recherche Bay: An Audit for Research, Visitation and Tourism; Heritage Tasmania (HERTAS)
Sentiments and risks: Changing attitudes to animals in Tasmania; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Changing Nature of Human-Animal Relations in Australia; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Salmon Ponds and the Development of an Acclimatisation Culture and Landscape in the Derwent Valley, Tasmania; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Their 'Natural State': Sources of Variation in Tasmanian Attitudes and Experience of Nature; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Top-up Scholarship - Michelle Whitmore; CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd (CRCT)
Trout Tourism: Investigating the Growth Potential for International and National Trout Tourists to Tasmania Through a Comparative Study of New Zealand and Tasmanian Trout Fisheries Stage Two; CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd (CRCT)

Research Candidate Supervision

A comparative analysis of wildlife tourism
Accidentally Tourism- Symmetry and Object Lessons from an Urban Design Laboratory
Can Childbirth Outcomes be Positively Influenced by Language that is not Traditional Obstetric Vernacular?
Changing nature of Australian cultural habits in particular changing attitudes towards the Arts and cultural leisure activities.
Competing and Changing- Discourses in Australian society on `Wilderness'
Creating the Bilbao Effect- Assessing the economic, social and cultural impact of MONA on Hobart's creative industries, and investigating how state and local governments can capitalise on this cultural momentum
DIY Morality- Stories from the Australian Blogosphere
Feeding Young Children - The Parents' Dilemma
Globalisation, Postmodernity and State Governments- Driving consumption beyond its limits
Grey Nomads in Australia- Technologies of Mobility and the Transformation of Ageing
Investigation of aspects of racism in Australian Society
Living in a marginal suburb- a case study in the spatialisation of sociocultural difference.
Mapping the MONA Effect. How can the experiential, spatial and corporeal operation of MONA provide a catalyst for the reordering and reinvigeration of the declining tourism industry in Tasmania
Mutual Benefit through Understanding Others- A Study of Chinese International Students and their Perceptions of the Social and Cultural Environment Experienced while Studying at the University of Tasmania
Nature - Human relations in Australian society - particularly nature tourism
Perceptions of tourists
Pets, Pests and pussycats- A Comparative Ethnographic Account of Human-Cat Relationships in Australia
Regional Responses to Globalisation- Managing the reorganisation of boudary processes
Risk-taking & postmodernity
Social Change and Teaching- A transformation in teacher's work
Tasmanian wilderness-A 'contested' space. A project investigating the environmental movement and hunter/angler practices within Tasmanian nature
The automobile and its social effects on Australian society
The Evolution of Hybrid Realities- Recognising Ontological Circularity and Symmetry
The Exhaustion of Progressive Aboriginal Governance
The Salmon Ponds and the Development of an Acclimatisation Culture and Landscape in the Derwent Valley
The significance and function changes in material culture of tribal society- Case study Vatulee Island, Fiji
Walking, Community and Place- The Influence of Access to Natural Areas on Walkers' Perceptions of Place in Tasmania