Dr Tijana Rakić
Lecturer in Tourism and Events & Deputy Postgraduate
Tourism, Hospitality and Events Programmes Leader
Contact details
Room: 4/02, Craiglockhart Campus
Tel: +44 (0) 131 455 4722
Email: t.rakic@napier.ac.uk
Qualifications
2005-2008/9: PhD [thesis title: World Heritage, Tourism and National Identity: a case study of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece]. Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh.
2008-2010: PgCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh.
2001-2005: BA (Hons) Marketing Management and Tourism Management with First Class Honours, Napier University, Edinburgh.
Areas of Expertise
Visual research methodologies; ethnography; semiotics; heritage, tourism, and national identity; world heritage; visual culture; tourism marketing; tourism impacts; narratives of travel and tourism; tourism and arts.
Brief Biography
Tijana is a Lecturer in Tourism and Events and Deputy Postgraduate Tourism, Hospitality and Events Programmes Leader. She teaches on a range of postgraduate and undergraduate modules. She has designed and developed two postgraduate modules: ‘Tourism Marketing’ and ‘Tourism, Society and Visual Culture’ and has taught on a range of undergraduate modules. She is also the co-ordinator for MSc dissertations in Tourism, Hospitality, Festivals and Events and has supervised a number of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. She is currently co-supervising two PhD students.
Her research interests and publications lie predominantly in the areas of heritage, tourism, and national identity, visual and creative research methodologies, ethnography, semiotics, visual culture, the relationships between travel, tourism and art, and history of tourism in Greece and the Balkans. Some of the academic research projects she has been involved with include a study surrounding the future of UNESCO’s World Heritage List, a study about tourism impacts in the island of Crete, a study about the history of tourism at the Athenian Acropolis, and her interdisciplinary doctoral research rooted in cultural geography and visual anthropology which explored the relationships between World Heritage, tourism and national identity at the Acropolis. Her doctoral research, philosophically underpinned by constructivism, was marked by a reliance on a variety of visual, alongside more traditional, research methods. As a result, research outputs from her PhD include the thesis, academic papers, a short video, and a 26 minute ethnographic documentary film 'Visiting the Athenian Acropolis' (2008). In addition to these research activities, she has also been involved in the production of a number of documentaries which, alongside her PhD film about the visitors at the Athenian Acropolis, also includes a documentary about tourism impacts in Crete titled 'Of Holidays and Olives' (2006, researcher & co-director) and a documentary about people living on the Greek side of the Prespa Lakes titled 'Silent Waters' (2009, co-camera & co-interviewer, directed by Yorgos Karagiannakis).
She is a member of a range of academic bodies and networks, which among other also include her Fellowships at the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Geographical Society. She regularly acts as a reviewer for a number of international tourism journals including Annals of Tourism Research and Tourism Management and has held invited lectures and seminars on research philosophies and visual methods.
Research Activities and Outputs
Edited books:
Rakić, T., & Chambers, D. (Eds.). (2011). An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism. London: Routledge.
Tivers, J. and Rakić, T. (Eds) (2012) Narratives of Travel and Tourism. Farnham: Ashgate.
Rakić, T. and Lester, J. (Εds) (work in progress) Travel, Tourism and Art.
Journal articles:
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2012) Rethinking the consumption of places, Annals of Tourism Research, doi:10.1016/j.annals.2011.12.003.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2010) Innovative techniques in tourism research: an exploration of visual methods and academic filmmaking. International Journal of Tourism Research, Vol. 12, Issue 4, pp. 379 – 389.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2009) Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field. Current Issues in Tourism, Vol. 13, Issue 3, pp. 255 – 270.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2007) World Heritage: exploring the tensions between the national and the ‘universal’, Journal of Heritage Tourism, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 145 - 155.
Rakić, T. (2007) World Heritage: Issues and Debates, Tourism: an international interdisciplinary journal, Vol. 55, Issue 2, pp. 209-219.
Book chapters:
Rakić, T. and Travlou, P. (accepted - forthcoming) Constructing and conveying a sense of place: the Athenian Acropolis in postcards. In J. Ploner, and M. Robinson, (eds) Tourism and Postcards. Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
Tivers, J. and Rakić, T. (2012) Introducing the narratives of travel and tourism. In Tivers, J. and Rakić, T. (Eds) Narratives of Travel and Tourism. Farnham: Ashgate.
Rakić, T. (2012) Narratives of national versus ‘universal’ belonging of the Athenian Acropolis in travel guidebooks. In Tivers, J. and Rakić, T. (Eds) Narratives of Travel and Tourism. Farnham: Ashgate.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2011) Introducing visual research methods to tourism studies. In T. Rakić and D. Chambers (eds) An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism. London: Routledge.
Rakić, T. (2011) Philosophies of the visual (method) in tourism research. In T. Rakić and D. Chambers (eds) An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism. London: Routledge.
Chambers, D. and Rakić, T. (2011) The future of visual research methods in tourism studies. In T. Rakić and D. Chambers (eds) An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism. London: Routledge.
Rakić, T. (2010) Tales from the field: video and its potential in creating cultural tourism knowledge. In G. Richards and W. Munsters (eds) Cultural Tourism Research Methods. Wallingford: CABI.
Fyall, A. and Rakić, T. (2006) The Future Market for World Heritage Sites. In A. Leask and A. Fyall (eds) Managing World Heritage Sites, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.
Papers presented at international conferences:
Rakić, T. (2011) Ethics of Visual Tourism Research. In Tourism Futures: Enhancing Creative & Critical Action - IV International Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Cardiff, 2nd - 5th July 2011.
Rakić, T. (2011) World Heritage, Tourism and National Identity at the Athenian Acropolis. In Advancing the Social Science of Tourism 2011 Conference, University of Surrey, 28 June - 1 July 2011
Rakić, T. (2010) Narratives of national versus ‘universal’ belonging of the Athenian Acropolis in travel guidebooks. In Narrating the stories of travel and tourism session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2010, London, 1–3 September 2010.
Rakić, T. (2009) Visiting the Athenian Acropolis: representing multiple realities of visitor experiences in a moving image format. In Researching beyond the tourist gaze session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2009, Manchester, 26–28 August 2009.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2009) Rethinking the consumption of places In: Connecting Academies of Hope: Creative Vistas and Critical Visions Conference, Zadar, 21 - 24 June 2009.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2008) At the [Athenian] Acropolis: exploring the nature of embodied multi-sensory visitor experiences. In: ATLAS 2008 Annual Conference - Selling or Telling? Paradoxes in Tourism, Culture and Heritage, University of Brighton, 2-4 July, 2008.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2007) Researcher with a movie camera: visual ethnography in the field. In: The 6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism Gazing, Glancing, Glimpsing: Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World Conference Proceedings, Eastbourne, 13-15 June 2007.
Rakić, T. and Chambers, D. (2007) Creating tourism knowledge: an exploration of the use of visual techniques. In: The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Promoting an Academy of Hope? 2nd International Critical Tourism Studies Conference Proceedings, Split, 20 - 23 June 2007.
Rakić, T. and Leask, A. (2006) World Heritage List: historical development, current status and future scenarios. In: Cutting Edge Research in Tourism-New Directions Challenges and Applications Conference Proceedings, Surrey, 6-9th June 2006.
Conference session co-convening:
Rakić, T. and Lester, J.A. (2011) Travel, Tourism and Art at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2011, London, 31st August - 2nd September 2011.
Rakić, T. and Scarles, C. (2010) Research(ing) Ethics in Tourism session (2 sessions) at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2010, London, 1–3 September 2010.
Tivers, J. and Rakić, T. (2010) Narrating the stories of travel and tourism session (4 sessions) at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference 2010, London, 1–3 September 2010.
Documentaries:
2009: Silent Waters, 38 min documentary by Yorgos Karagiannakis. Co-camera and co-interviewer.
2008: Visiting the Athenian Acropolis, 26 min documentary by Tijana Rakić. Direction, research, co-camera and interviews.
2006: Of Holidays and Olives, 38 min documentary by Tijana Rakić and Yorgos Karagiannakis. Co-direction, research, co-camera and co-interviewer.
Film festival screenings:
'Visiting the Athenian Acropolis' (2008), 26min documentary by Tijana Rakić
- XVIII International Festival of Ethnological Film, Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, 22-25 November 2009.
‘Silent Waters’ (2009), a 38min documentary by Yorgos Karagiannakis [co-camera; co-interviewer]
- XVIII International Festival of Ethnological Film, Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, 22-25 November 2009.
‘Of Holidays and Olives’ (2006), 38min documentary by Tijana Rakić and Yorgos Karagiannakis
- 10th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers, Patras, Greece, 3-11 October 2008.
- 7th International Ecocinema Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 20-27 February 2008.
- Greek Film Festival, Filmhouse, Edinburgh, 1-8 February 2008.
- Ecofilms: Rodos International Film and Visual Arts Festival, 19-24 June 2007.
- Folegandros Festival: days of the documentary, Folegandros, Greece, 10-17 July 2007.
- Sikinos Festival: days of the documentary, Sikinos, Greece, 6-8 August, 2007.
- Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, Thessaloniki, Greece, 16-25 March 2007.
- XV International Festival of Ethnological Film, Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, 1-5 November 2006.
Video screenings:
‘Acropolis’, 2 min video by Tijana Rakić
- 2008 British Sociological Association Annual Conference: Social Worlds, Natural Worlds University of Warwick, UK, 28-30 March 2008
Invited keynotes, seminars and workshops:
2011: Workshop Research Philosophies in Practice, DBA Research Methods Seminar Series, Edinburgh Napier University, UK, January 12th 2011
2009: Seminar Visualising Research, DBA Research Methods Seminar Series, Edinburgh Napier University, UK, October 15th 2009.
2009: Keynote titled Visual Methods: An Exploration of Innovative Approaches to Research’ at the Symposium on Methodological Innovations in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, September 17th, 2009.
2009: Seminar Visual Methods, PhD Research Methods Seminar Series, Edinburgh Napier University, UK, April 7th 2009.
2009: Seminar Innovative Research Techniques: an exploration of visual methods and moving image visual ethnography, School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages Research Seminar Series, Edinburgh Napier University, UK, February 17th, 2009.
2008: Keynote Visual Methods in Tourism Studies, at the Salon de Wyswert—Lines of Flights: Innovating Research Methods in Service Studies Conference, Stenden University, The Netherlands, March 7th 2008.
2008: Seminar Doing Visual Ethnography held at the Salon de Wyswert—Lines of Flights: Innovating Research Methods in Service Studies Conference, Stenden University, The Netherlands, March 7th 2008.
2008: Seminar Visual Methods in Tourism Research: academic filmmaking and its potential for the creation of tourism knowledge, Critical Hospitality and Tourism Studies Research Seminar Series, University of Strathclyde, UK, January 17th, 2008.