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Overview

Stephen Wearing is affiliated with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Their research concentrates primarily within the Social Sciences, with fourteen publications contributing to this expansive field.

Their work is notably represented in subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Geography, Planning and Development, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Education.

Wearing's research covers a range of topics, particularly focusing on:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
  • Religious Tourism and Spaces
  • Community Development and Social Impact
  • Asian Culture and Media Studies
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media

Their recent publications include:

  • Exploring adolescent computer gaming as leisure experience and consumption: some insights on deviance and resistance, 2021, Leisure Studies
  • Digital gaming culture in Vietnam: an exploratory study, 2020, Leisure Studies
  • Host communities and last chance tourism, 2020, Tourism Geographies
  • A diverse economies approach for promoting peace and justice in volunteer tourism, 2021, Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Exploring Student Engagement in Sustainability Education and Study Abroad, 2021, Sustainability

Stephen Wearing frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Stephen Schweinsberg
  • Matthew McDonald
  • Louise O'Flynn
  • Brian McCauley
  • Truc Ha Thanh Nguyen

The primary venues where Wearing's work is published include:

  • Leisure Studies
  • Journal of Park and Recreation Administration
  • Tourism Geographies
  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Volunteer Tourism: Experiences that Make a Difference

    Stephen Wearing

  • Volunteer tourism: A review

    Stephen Wearing;Nancy Gard McGehee

  • Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities?

    Stephen Wearing;John Neil

  • Gap year volunteer tourism: Myths of Global Citizenship?

    Kevin Lyons;Joanne Hanley;Stephen Wearing;John Neil

  • The development of community-based tourism: Re-thinking the relationship between tour operators and development agents as intermediaries in rural and isolated area communities

    Stephen Wearing;Matthew McDonald

  • Refocussing the tourist experience: the flaneur and the choraster

    Betsy Wearing;Stephen Wearing

  • Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller

    Stephen Wearing;Deborah Stevenson;Tamara Young

  • Examining best practice in volunteer tourism.

    SL Wearing

  • Conceptualizing the selves of tourism

    Stephen Wearing;Betsy Wearing

  • Building a Decommodified Research Paradigm in Tourism: The Contribution of NGOs

    Stephen Wearing;Matthew McDonald;Jess Ponting

  • Ecoturismo: impacto, tendencias y posibilidades

    Stephen L. Wearing;John Neil

  • Re-centring the self in volunteer tourism.

    S. Wearing;G. M. S. Dann

  • The Nature of Peak Experience in Wilderness

    Matthew G. McDonald;Stephen Wearing;Jess Ponting

  • ‘All in a day's leisure’: gender and the concept of leisure

    Betsy Wearing;Stephen Wearing

  • Volunteer tourism as alternative tourism: journeys beyond otherness

    K. D. Lyons;S. Wearing

  • Journeys of discovery in volunteer tourism: international case study perspectives

    Kevin D. Lyons;Stephen Wearing

  • De-Constructing Wonderland: Surfing Tourism in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

    Jess Ponting;Matthew McDonald;Stephen Wearing

  • Converting Environmental Concern into Ecotourism Purchases: A Qualitative Evaluation of International Backpackers in Australia

    Stephen Wearing;Sandra Cynn;Jess Ponting;Matthew McDonald

  • Discovering self and discovering others through the Taita Discovery Centre Volunteer Tourism Programme, Kenya.

    A. Lepp;K. D. Lyons;S. Wearing

  • Understanding local power and interactional processes in sustainable tourism: exploring village–tour operator relations on the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea

    Stephen Leslie Wearing;Michael Wearing;Matthew McDonald

  • Ecotourism: Transitioning to the 22nd Century

    Stephen Wearing;Stephen Schweinsberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Gard McGehee
Nancy Gard McGehee Virginia Tech
Brendan Gough
Brendan Gough Leeds Beckett University
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles University of South Australia
Gerard T. Kyle
Gerard T. Kyle Texas A&M University

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