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Derek H. Alderman

Researcher at University of Tennessee

Publications -  126
Citations -  3810

Derek H. Alderman is an academic researcher from University of Tennessee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Tourism. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 121 publications receiving 3281 citations. Previous affiliations of Derek H. Alderman include University of Georgia & Georgia Southern University.

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Memory and place: geographies of a critical relationship

TL;DR: The authors assesses some of the major trends in this burgeoning literature, especially those works spatial in nature, which they find to be of considerable cross-disciplinary importance, and provide a modest overview of that critical, dynamic relationship.
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Geographies of toponymic inscription: new directions in critical place-name studies

TL;DR: The authors provide a selective genealogy of the critical turn in place-name studies and consider three complementary approaches to analyzing spatial inscription as a toponymic practice: political semiotics, governmentality studies, and normative theories of social justice and symbolic resistance.
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Memorial landscapes: analytic questions and metaphors

TL;DR: A review of the literature indicates that geographers scrutinize memorial landscapes through three conceptual lenses that may be understood via the metaphors of "text,", "arena, and performance".
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Street names and the scaling of memory: the politics of commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr within the African American community

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the politics of naming these streets as a "scaling of memory" -a socially contested process of determining the geographic extent to which the civil rights leader should be memorialized.
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“We can’t return to normal”: committing to tourism equity in the post-pandemic age

TL;DR: A new normal openly recognizes the crises and tensions inhabiting tourism well before the COVID-19 pandemic along with the holistic... as discussed by the authors, and tourism transformation must bring an actionable focus on equity.