Tim Winter

Email: Room: 144 RC Mills Building, A26 Tel: 9036 9543

Current Position:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research interests:
Tim Winter’s research interests focus on heritage and tourism in Asia. Within this, two keys themes steer his research. Firstly, working on Cambodia over a number of years has led to a strong interest in understanding the simultaneous and often contradictory challenges which emerge around heritage and tourism within societies suffering from, or recovering from, periods of armed conflict. Of particular interest here is how processes of ‘national reconstruction’, ‘development’ and ‘restoration’ play out as political and economic discourses. Paralleling his work on Cambodia, Tim is now looking at such issues in Kashmir, Croatia and Sri Lanka.

Tim’s other research focus examines the social impacts of the fast growing Asian tourism industry. Issues being considered here include heritage, memory and the Asian tourist; citizenship, consumption and mobility; intra-regional postcolonial tourism; and tourism/heritage vis à vis Asian modernities. Prior to joining Sydney in late 2006, Tim spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, Singapore.

See www.postconflictheritage.com

• 2007
  A$2,000 Travel Sponsorship, Aman Resorts, Cambodia
  A$2,500 Travel Grant, University of Sydney
  US$3,500 Travel Grant, Getty Foundation
• 2006
  A$25,000 Research Funding, University of Sydney
  S$20,000 Conference Funding, Primary Investigator, National University of Singapore
  S$10,000 Workshop Funding, Primary Investigator, National University of Singapore
  S$20,000 Conference Funding, Secondary Investigator, National University of Singapore
• 2004
  GBP4,500 British Academy Research Grant
• 2002
  GBP1,000 British Sociological Association, Conference Grant (Dublin, Ireland)

• ‘Heritage, tourism and Development: working towards an integrated approach’ International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor, 14th Plenary Session, 28 November, 2007 (by UNESCO, Cambodia invitation)
• ‘Horizons of Reconstruction: post-conflict Angkor and heritage tourism’, Balancing Culture, Conservation, and Economic Development: Heritage Tourism in and around the Pacific Rim, US ICOMOS Conference, 18-21 April, 2007, (Getty Foundation funded Public Lecture)

• Editor: Historic Environment, ICOMOS Australia (refereed journal),
  See: http://www.icomos.org/australia/
• Conference Convenor: 'Of Asian Origin': Rethinking Tourism In Contemporary Asia, International Conference, 07-09 Sept 2006, Singapore
• Conference Convenor: Questions of Methodology; Researching Tourism in Asia, International Graduate Workshop, 05-06 Sept 2006, Singapore, Co-organised with University of Otago
• Conference Convenor: Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia, International Workshop, July 2006, Singapore
• Exhibition curator; Re-imagining Angkor; a century of images and ephemera, Multi-media exhibition, December 04 – January 05, Foreign Correspondent's Club, Siem Reap, Cambodia (Co-curator Dr Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley).
• Member of editorial Board: Siksacakr, Journal of Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
• Member of ICOMOS

Books

• Winter, T. Teo, P. and Chang, T.C. eds (2008) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian Tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2007) Post-conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism; culture, politics and development at Angkor, London: Routledge
• Ollier, L. and Winter, T. eds (2006) Expressions of Cambodia: the Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change. London: Routledge

Chapters in Books

• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Post-conflict heritage: expanding the frontiers of “reconstruction”’ in Labadi, & Long, C. (eds) Cultural Heritage and Globalisation, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. and Panjabi, S (2008) ‘Leaving the Buildings Behind: conflict, sovereignty and the values of heritage in Kashmir’, in Logan, W. (ed.) Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. Teo, P. & Chang, T.C., (2008) ‘Introduction: Rethinking Tourism in Asia,’ in Winter, T. Teo, P. & Chang, T.C., (eds) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Destination Asia: rethinking material culture’ in Winter, T. Teo, P. & Chang, T.C., (eds) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Recasting tourism theory, towards an Asian future’ in Winter, T. Teo, P. & Chang, T.C., (eds) Asia on Tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism, London: Routledge
• Winter, T. (2007) 'Landscapes in the Living Memory; new year festivities at Angkor, Cambodia' in Whelan, Y. & Moore, N., (eds) [[i|Heritage, Memory And The Politics Of Identity: new perspectives on the cultural landscape]], Aldershot: Ashgate
• Winter, T. & Ollier, L. 'Introduction: Cambodia and the Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change' in Ollier, L. and Winter, T. eds (2006) Expressions of Cambodia: the Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change. London: Routledge.
• Winter, T. 'When ancient "glory" meets modern "tragedy": Angkor and the Khmer Rouge in contemporary tourism' in Ollier, L. and Winter, T. eds (2006) Expressions of Cambodia: the Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change. London: Routledge.
• Winter, T. (2006) 'Ruining the Dream? The Challenge of Tourism at Angkor, Cambodia' in Meethan, K. Anderson, A & Miles, S., eds Tourism, Representation and Consumption: Narratives of Place and Self, Oxfordshire: CABI
• Winter, T. (2006) 'Bakheng Tourism: Setting New Standards for Angkor', Phnom Bakheng Workshop on Public Interpretation, Siem Reap: APSARA & World Monuments Fund.
• Winter, T. (2005) 'Landscape, Memory and Heritage: New year celebrations at
  Angkor, Cambodia' in Harrison, D. & Hitchcock, M. eds The Politics of World Heritage; negotiating tourism and conservation, Channel View Publications, UK, (Republication of Current Issues Article listed below)

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Winter, T. ‘Asian Tourism and the Retreat of Anglo-Western Centrism in Tourism Theory.’ (accepted: forthcoming Current Issues in Tourism)
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘Post-conflict Heritage and Tourism in Cambodia: the burden of Angkor’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 14 No.6
• Winter, T. (2008) ‘The Modernities of Heritage and Tourism: interpretations of an Asian future’, (accepted: forthcoming Journal of Heritage Tourism Studies)
• Panjabi, S and Winter, T. (2008) ‘Whose land is it anyway?: Conflict and conservation in Kashmir’ Historic Environment, Vol.21 No. 2
• Winter, T. (2007) 'Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia' Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 34 No.1
• Winter, T. (2004) 'Global, Local Visions of Angkor; a critical analysis of heritage,
  place and identity in an age of tourism' in Historical Environment, Vol. 18. No.2
• Winter, T. (2004) 'Landscape, Memory and Heritage: New year celebrations at
  Angkor, Cambodia' In: Current Issues in Tourism, No. 7 Vols. 4&5
• Winter, T. (2003) 'Angkor and Tomb Raider: a clash of cultures', In: Indonesia and the Malay World, Vol. 31 No. 89
• Winter, T. (2002) 'Angkor meets Tomb Raider: setting the scene', In: International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 8 No.4
• Winter, T. (1999) 'The sociology of tourism', In: Sociology Review, Vol. 9 No. 1 (non refereed)