Envisioning a collective alternative to epistemic literalism

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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tourism Research Paradigms : Critical and Emergent Knowledges

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This chapter explores the potential for and value of imagining a humanist paradigm for tourism studies. It explores how the idea of a “paradigm” in tourism can be conceptualized, arguing that dominant thoughtlines in other fields regarding the meaning of a paradigm are not sufficient for making sense of this idea in the context of tourism studies. The chapter introduces humanism as a philosophical position in the academy and as a lived cultural practice, explores examples of extant work in tourism studies that might be seen to provide the seeds of a humanist paradigm, and offers reflections on the value of imagining such a paradigm for our field.

Tourism -- Research

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Bingley, UK

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

9781783509294

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