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Overview

Christina Goulding is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences, business, and management, with a significant focus on sociology, geography, social psychology, marketing, and anthropology.

Their work explores a variety of interconnected topics, including:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification
  • Diverse aspects of tourism research
  • Religious tourism and spaces
  • Death anxiety and social exclusion
  • Anthropological studies and insights
  • Crime, deviance, and social control

Christina Goulding has published several papers in academic journals, reflecting their research interests. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Atmosphere" - the what? The where? And the how?: Launching the annals of tourism research curated collection on atmosphere, 2023, Annals of Tourism Research
  • Ritual Revision During a Crisis: The Case of Indian Religious Rituals During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2022, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
  • A palimpsestic analysis of atmospheres at dark tourism, 2023, Annals of Tourism Research
  • Publish or perish: ensuring our journals don't fail us, 2023, Journal of Marketing Management
  • Exploring nuances of liminality: Unbridled, oriented, and restrained liminality in cultural rituals, 2024, Marketing Theory

Their frequent co-authors reflect collaborative research across related domains. These include:

  • Vikram Kapoor
  • Russell W. Belk
  • Andrew D. Pressey
  • Damien Chaney
  • Chloe Preece

Christina Goulding's articles are most often published in the following venues:

  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
  • Marketing Theory
  • Journal of Marketing Management
  • Consumption Markets & Culture

Their body of work contributes to the understanding of social and cultural dynamics within consumer behavior, tourism, ritual studies, and broader social sciences. This interdisciplinary approach combines qualitative and theoretical insights across anthropology, sociology, and marketing disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Grounded theory, ethnography and phenomenology: A comparative analysis of three qualitative strategies for marketing research

    Christina Goulding

  • Grounded theory: the missing methodology on the interpretivist agenda

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  • The museum environment and the visitor experience

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  • Understanding Consumption: Contributions from a Narrative Perspective

    Avi Shankar;Richard Elliott;Christina Goulding

  • The commodification of the past, postmodern pastiche, and the search for authentic experiences at contemporary heritage attractions

    Christina Goulding

  • Working Weeks, Rave Weekends: Identity Fragmentation and the Emergence of New Communities

    Christina Goulding;Avi Shankar;Richard Elliott

  • The Marketplace Management of Illicit Pleasure

    Christina Goulding;Avi Shankar;Richard Elliott;Robin Canniford

  • Consumer research, interpretive paradigms and methodological ambiguities

    Christina Goulding

  • Romancing the Past: Heritage Visiting and the Nostalgic Consumer

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  • Grounded Theory: some reflections on paradigm, procedures and misconceptions

    Christina Goulding

  • Learning to be tribal: facilitating the formation of consumer tribes

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  • Heritage, identity and ideological manipulation: the case of Croatia.

    Christina Goulding;Dino Domic

  • “We are not terrorists!” UK‐based Iranians, consumption practices and the “torn self”

    Aliakbar Jafari;Christina Goulding

  • Performing identity: an analysis of gender expressions at the Whitby goth festival

    Christina Goulding;Michael Saren

  • Grounded Theory: A Magical Formula or a Potential Nightmare

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  • Heritage, nostalgia, and the “grey” consumer

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  • Interpretive consumer research: two more contributions to theory and practice

    Avi Shankar;Christina Goulding

  • Age is just a number: 'rave' culture and the cognitively young 'thirty something'

    Christina Goulding;Avi Shankar

  • Contemporary Museum Culture and Consumer Behaviour

    Christina Goulding

  • Club culture, neotribalism and ritualised behaviour

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  • Gothic entrenpreneurs: a study of the subcultural commodification process.

    Christina Goulding;Michael Saren

  • Globalization, reflexivity and the project of the self : a virtual intercultural learning process

    Aliakbar Jafari;Christina Goulding

  • Navigating the Complexities of Grounded Theory Research in Advertising

    Christina Goulding

  • Community based response to the Japanese tsunami:: A bottom-up approach

    Christina Goulding;Mihaela Kelemen;Toru Kiyomiya

  • Sociocultural brand revitalization: The role of consumer collectives in bringing brands back to life

    Elina Närvänen;Christina Goulding

  • ‘Presence’ and ‘absence’ in themed heritage

    Christina Goulding;Michael Saren;Andrew Pressey

  • Dress, transformation, and conformity in the heavy rock subculture.

    Damien Chaney;Christina Goulding

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