Kiernan Gordon, Assistant Professor of Sport & Recreation Management, co-authored a paper with Gregory Ramshaw (Clemson University) entitled, ‘Making the intangible tangible in sport heritage: A conceptual analysis of sport statuary’s spatial fix’ that was recently published in Journal of Sport & Tourism. The paper examines a type of tangible immovable sport heritage–sport statuary–that has a niche yet robust body of literature through the lens of the ‘spatial fix’, which is a theoretical construct that originates from economic geography. Gordon and Ramshaw explain the value both of sport heritage as a domain worthy of further investigation and the spatial fix as a useful tool for future conceptual and empirical analyses within sport tourism.
Those interested in reading the paper may access it for free at this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WSH5HDRDKFNDFQJRV6XQ/full?target=10.1080/14775085.2022.2145343
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