Preston Mitchell's research while affiliated with East Carolina University and other places
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Publications (4)
The study of retail geography is moving beyond an orthodox, spatial science tradition to include a consideration of the cultural and symbolic dimensions of retailing and consumption. This paper contributes to this emerging literature by exploring the cultural politics of retail change. The entry of a large format (or "big box") retailer into a comm...
Almost three decades ago, cultural geographer Richard Pillsbury documented the national expansion of NASCAR and what he considered the erosion of major-league stock car racing as a unique southern tradition. This claim is reassessed in light of recent research, leading us to suggest that the sport is actually “transcultural” in nature. It is influe...
Citations
... Local property and business owners objected to the removal of local history and were able to be heard. On the street signs, under the bold King name, stands the subtitle 'Historic Airport Road.' (Carolina Alumni Review 2004;Alderman 2007). ...
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... Despite extensive research on the geographies of sport (for a multi-sport overview see Koch, 2017; for specific US sports, see Alderman et al., 2003;Wise & Kirby, 2020), and specifically football (Baker, 2018;Conner, 2014;Lawrence, 2016), there is only limited examination of the names of the venues in which these activities are, quite literally, played out. In relation to football stadia naming, such work (see Church & Penny, 2013;Vuolteenaho & Kolamo, 2012; 2019, on which this paper builds) is grounded in critical toponymy (Rose-Redwood et al., 2010). ...
