Tourism Research Paradigms : Critical and Emergent Knowledges.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (196 pages)
- Tourism Social Science Series ; v.22 .
- Tourism Social Science Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 What are Paradigms for? -- Introduction -- Paradigms in Context -- Insights and Polemics -- Paradigm Diversity in Tourism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Heritage Tourism and Conservation -- Introduction -- Disciplinary Use, Perspectives, and Applications of Resilience -- Notions of Resilience -- Disaster Management -- Heritage Tourism and Conservation -- Other Perspectives on Resilience -- Cultural Resilience in a Resilience Framework -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 A Humanist Paradigm for Tourism Studies? -- Introduction -- What is a Paradigm in Tourism Studies? -- Humanist Philosophy -- A Humanist Paradigm for Tourism Studies? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 4 When is a Paradigm Not a Paradigm? -- Introduction -- The Meaning of Paradigm -- An Alternative View of Paradigms -- Tourism Conferences -- Theory and Tourism Research -- Methodological Changes in Tourism Research -- Paradigm Shifts -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 5 Toward a Critical Ecofeminist Research Paradigm for Sustainable Tourism -- Introduction -- Sustainable Tourism and Ecotourism -- Twin Domination and the Loss of the Intangible -- Counter-Discourses for a "Just" Tourism -- Insights and Omissions -- An Ethic of Care and Flourishing -- Resituating the Body in Tourism -- Situated Knowledges and the Critical Embodied Turn -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Embodying Cosmopolitan Paradigms in Tourism Research -- Introduction -- Feminism and (Dis)Embodied Experience -- A Personal View -- Embodiment in Tourism Studies -- Cosmopolitanism and Tourism Studies -- Cosmopolitanisms in Tourism Research -- Feminist Cosmopolitanism for Tourism Studies -- Feminist Cosmopolitanism/Cosmofeminism -- Embodied Cosmopolitanism -- Embodying the Cosmopolitan in Tourism Research -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Paradigmatic Tourist -- Introduction. The Paradigm Idea in the Social Sciences and Tourism Studies -- Working Politico-Philosophically with Paradigms -- The Paradigmatic Tourist as Post-Political -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 The House of Tourism Studies and the Systemic Paradigm -- Introduction -- Paradigmatic Dialogues -- The Systemic Paradigm -- The Systemic Paradigm and the Colonization of Tourism Knowledge -- Creating Knowledge under a Systemic Paradigm -- De-Colonizing Epistemology -- Promoting and Celebrating Multiple Knowledges and Genres -- Building Alternative Platforms of Knowledge Production, Cooperation, and Dissemination -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 A Logical Step to Tourism Science -- Introduction -- Definition of the Tourist -- The Nature of Locomotion -- Information Energy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 An Approach to Tourism Research in Spain -- Introduction -- Analysis of the Conference Proceedings -- Study Methods -- Origins and Characteristics of the Research -- Geographical and Institutional Origins of the Papers -- Research Origins, Characteristics, and Traditions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11 "Paradigmatic" Reflections and Looking Forward -- Introduction -- Eclectic Paradigmatic Reflections -- Paradigmatic Perspectives and the "Other" -- Feminism, Humanity, and Nature -- The Intellectual Activist Paradigm of Tourism Studies? -- Critical Tensions and Contestations -- Conclusion -- References -- About the Authors.
The theme of this book focuses on the being of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. It discusses both ontological and epistemological issues in tourism studies. In addition to examining what constitutes tourism knowledge and how tourism knowledge is acquired, various theoretical and methodological paradigms will also be addressed.