Doctor Amie Matthews

ACADEMIC COURSE ADVISOR,
Sociology and Criminology (SoSSP)

LECTURER,
Sociology and Criminology (SoSSP)

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Biography
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Personal

Qualifications

PhD University of Newcastle (NSW)

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Sociology and Criminology (SoSSP)
Sociology and Criminology (SoSSP)

Contact

Email:	A.Matthews@uws.edu.au
Extension:	6224
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Location:	1.1.35 Bankstown
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Biography

Amie Matthews is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. Before joining the University of Western Sydney in a full-time capacity (in February 2010), Amie had worked as a casual lecturer/tutor and research assistant in the School of Social Sciences (2008-2009). She has also taught at the University of Newcastle (2004-2007), where she completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

Amie’s PhD (awarded in 2008) examined the role of independent travel or backpacking in the lives of young people and the impacts that this contemporary rite of passage has on individual identity, relationships and world-self perceptions. She has taught in sociology, social research methods and social theory, media and cultural studies, and tourism and leisure studies.

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

101598 Tourism in Society, 2012
101612 Identity and Belonging, 2012
101631 Power, Deviance and Society, 2012

Publications

Chapters in Books

Stevenson, D. and Matthews, A. (2012), 'Situating Leisure in the Cultural Economy', Culture and the City - Creativity, Tourism & Leisure, Routledge 9780415632904.
Stevenson, D. and Matthews, A. (2012), 'Situating leisure in the cultural economy', Culture and the City: Creativity, Tourism and Leisure, Routledge 9780415632904.
Matthews, A. (2008), 'Backpacking as a Contemporary Rite of Passage: Victor Turner and Youth Travel Practices', Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, Berghahn Books 9781845454623.
Matthews, A. (2008), 'Negotiated Selves: Exploring The Impact Of Local-Global Interactions On Young Volunteer Travelers', Journeys of Discovery in Volunteer Tourism: International Case Study Perspectives, CABI 9781845933807.

Journal Articles

Matthews, A. (2012), ''Write' of Passage: Reflecting on the Fieldwork Process and Its Contribution to Critically Orientated Tourism Research', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, .
Matthews, A. (2012), 'Journeys into Authenticity and Adventure: Analysing Media Representations of Backpacker Travel in South America', Literature & Aesthetics, 28.
Matthews, A. (2012), ''Write' of passage : reflecting on the fieldwork process and its contribution to critically orientated tourism research', Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 8.
Matthews, A. (2012), 'Journeys into authenticity and adventure : analysing media representations of backpacker travel in South America', Literature & Aesthetics, 28.
Stevenson, D. and Matthews, A. (2010), 'Culture, policy and the city', Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 2.
Matthews, A. (2009), 'Living paradoxically: understanding the discourse of authentic freedom as it emerges in the travel space', Tourism Analysis, 10.

Research

Her research interests include: youth tourism and backpacking; volunteer and socially responsible tourism; tourism impacts; youth cultures; spirituality and meaning making in contemporary Western societies; contemporary rites of passage; and transnationalism.