Ross Bennett-Cook

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Ross Bennett-Cook is a PhD candidate at Leeds Beckett University. His research focuses on the anthropology of tourism, with particular interest in how tourist resorts are used by domestic and international visitors. His doctoral work explores the complex role of Turkey’s Westernised coastal resorts as liminal spaces of cultural negotiation and freedom amid rising conservatism. Using Antalya as a case study, he examines how these resorts function as symbolic escape zones for locals, revealing tensions between secularism, religion, and Turkey’s evolving national identity.

Outside of his doctoral studies, Ross is a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, School of Architecture + Cities.

Experience

  • –present
    Visiting Lecturer , University of Westminster
  • 2023–present
    PhD, Leeds Beckett University

Education

  • 2019 
    Akdeniz University , MA
  • 2019 
    University of Sunderland, MSc
  • 2015 
    London South Bank University , BA

Publications

  • 2022
    Neocolonialism in Tourism, Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing
  • 2022
    The Demonstration Effect , Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing
  • 2022
    Enclave, Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing
  • 2022
    Fethiye: Turkey’s ‘Little Britain' – residential tourists’ identity and relationships, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
  • 2020
    Religious tourism and the environment: Kiran A. Shinde and daniel H. Olsen. 2020, CABI, wallingford, oxfordshire. 180pages. £95/€110/$130. ISBN: 9781789241600, Tourism Geographies

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