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The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies : Creating an Academy of Hope.

In today's increasingly complex tourism environment, decision-making requires a rounded, well-informed view of the whole. Critical distance should be encouraged, consultation and intellectual rigour should be the norm amongst managers and there needs to be a radical shift in our approach to edu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ateljevic, Irena
Otros Autores: Morgan, Nigel, Pritchard, Annette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Colección:Advances in Tourism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies Creating an academy of hope; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, exhibits and tables; List of contributors; Foreword: dialectical thinking and critical pedagogy
  • towards a critical tourism studies; Acknowledgements; Introduction: creating an academy of hope: an enquiry-learning-action nexus; PART I: Critical tourism research; 1 Researcher reflexivity in tourism studies research: dynamical dances with emotions; 2 The political ends of tourism: voices and narratives of Silwan/the City of David in East Jerusalem.
  • 3 The challenge of critical approaches to rural tourism studies and practice4 The under-conceptualisations of tourism studies: the case for postdisciplinary knowing; PART II: Critical tourism education; 5 The Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI): activating change in tourism education; 6 From copyright to copyleft: towards tourism education 2.0; 7 Critical thinking in the tourism curriculum; 8 Thinking inside the box: understanding discursive production and consumption in tourism; 9 To act as though the future mattered: a framework for hopeful tourism education.
  • PART III: Critical action in 'the tourism world'10 Hotel Bauen: an exploratory case study in justice tourism; 11 The dialectics of war, peace and tourism; 12 Pacifists and partygoers? Young Antipodeans visiting Gallipoli war sites; 13 Diverse economies and alternative economic practices in tourism; 14 Hotel Transvaal and molar lines as a tool to open up spaces of hospitality; Epilogue: hopeful tourism: an unfolding perspective; Index.