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Tourism research paradigms [electronic resource] : critical and emergent knowledges / edited by Ana Mari<U+0301>a Munar, Tazim Jamal.

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TextSeries: Tourism social science series ; v. 22.Publication details: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)ISBN:

9781783509300 (electronic bk.)

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G155.A1 T68 2016

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Resursa online

Contents:

What are paradigms for? / Ana Mari<U+0301>a Munar, Tazim Jamal -- Heritage tourism and conservation : a cultural resilience bridge? / Carolina Manrique, Tazim Jamal, Robert Warden -- A humanist paradigm for tourism studies? / Kellee Caton -- When is a paradigm not a paradigm? / Graham M.S. Dann -- Towards a critical ecofeminist research paradigm for sustainable tourism / Blanca A. Camargo, Tazim Jamal, Erica Wilson -- Embodying cosmopolitan paradigms in tourism research / Margaret Swain -- The paradigmatic tourist / Richard Ek, Mekonnen Tesfahuney -- The house of tourism studies and the systemic paradigm / Ana Mari<U+0301>a Munar -- A logical step to tourism science / Kazuyoshi Takeuchi -- An approach to tourism research in Spain / Jose<U+0301>-Antonio Corral-Marfil, Gemma Ca<U+0300>noves-Valiente -- "Paradigmatic" reflections and looking forward / Tazim Jamal, Ana Mari<U+0301>a Munar.

Summary: The theme of this book is the phenomenon of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. Adopting a broad understanding of the paradigmatic field of tourism as the evolution and relationship between established and emergent schools of thought, this book explores the dynamics between tourism knowledge and the phenomenal world of tourism. It addresses contemporary epistemological debates and examines what constitutes tourism knowledge and how tourism knowledge is acquired. Issues examined in the chapters of this volume include: the nature and conceptualization of paradigms; the historical evolution of tourism knowledge production; embodiment, positionality and situated knowledges; paradigmatic proposals such as critical theory, feminism, humanism, cosmopolitanism, post-political theory and constructivism; a critical exploration of the power relations, contradictions and fragmentation in tourism research; ontologies and conceptualization of tourism and the tourist. This volume invites a critical evaluation and discussion of the anchorage of tourism as a knowledge domain and of tourism as science.

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The theme of this book is the phenomenon of tourism and knowledge construction in tourism. Adopting a broad understanding of the paradigmatic field of tourism as the evolution and relationship between established and emergent schools of thought, this book explores the dynamics between tourism knowledge and the phenomenal world of tourism. It addresses contemporary epistemological debates and examines what constitutes tourism knowledge and how tourism knowledge is acquired. Issues examined in the chapters of this volume include: the nature and conceptualization of paradigms; the historical evolution of tourism knowledge production; embodiment, positionality and situated knowledges; paradigmatic proposals such as critical theory, feminism, humanism, cosmopolitanism, post-political theory and constructivism; a critical exploration of the power relations, contradictions and fragmentation in tourism research; ontologies and conceptualization of tourism and the tourist. This volume invites a critical evaluation and discussion of the anchorage of tourism as a knowledge domain and of tourism as science.

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