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Political Economy and Tourism.
Political economy, in its various guises and transfigurations, is a research philosophy that presents both social commentary and theoretical progress and is concerned with a number of different topics: politics, regulation and governance, production systems, social relations, inequality and developm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Fieldwork in Tourism Methods, issues and reflections; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Introducing the contexts of fieldwork; 1 Fieldwork in tourism/touring fields: Where does tourism end and fieldwork begin?; 2 Defining and redefining conceptual frameworks for social science field research; Part I Research relationships: Power, politics and patron-client affinities; 3 Researching the political in tourism: Where knowledge meets power; 4 The visible/invisible researcher: Ethics and politically sensitive research.
- 5 Interviewing elites: Perspectives from the medical tourism sector in India and Thailand Part II Positionality: Researcher position in the field-practicalities, perils and pitfalls; 6Reflexivity and ethnography in community tourism research; 7 Doing 'risky' and 'sexy' research: Reframing the concept of 'relational' in qualitative research; 8 Studying halal restaurants in New Zealand: Experiences and perspectives of a Muslim female researcher; 9 Researching heritage tourism in Singapore: An outsider perspective as an asset?
- 10 Cosmopolitan methodology: Implications of the ethnographer's multiple and shifting relationships in studying ethnic tourism11 Allowing women's voices to be heard in tourism research: Competing paradigms of method; Part III Methods and processes; 12 Studying local-to-global tourism dynamics through glocal ethnography; 13 Researching second home tourism in South Africa: Methodological challenges and innovations; 14 Off the record: Segmenting informal discussions into viable methodological categories; 15 Know yourself: Making the visual work in tourism research.
- 16 Work it out: Using work as participant observation to study tourism17 Researching tourists in the outdoors: Challenges and experiences from protected areas in Sweden; 18 Challenges in fieldwork: Researching group service experiences at a white water rafting provider in New Zealand; 19 Facing rejection: Volunteer tourists whom I could not interview; Part IV Future directions and new environments; 20 In cyberspace can anybody hear you scream? Issues in the conduct of online fieldwork; 21 Integrating researchers and Indigenous communities: Reflections from Northern Canada.
- 22 Managing post-fieldwork interpersonal relationships: Mea (maxima?) culpa23 Concluding thoughts: Where does fieldwork end and tourism begin?; Index.