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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783825103321

Titolo

Qualitative research in tourism : ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies / / edited by Jenny Phillimore and Lisa Goodson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-46245-X

0-415-28086-9

9780203642988

1-134-46246-8

1-280-03635-4

0-203-64298-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility

Classificazione

76.60

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodsonLisa <1972->

PhillimoreJenny

Disciplina

910/.72

Soggetti

Tourism - Research - Methodology

Qualitative research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Key ontological, epistemological and methodological issues in social science; Progress in qualitative research in tourism: epistemology, ontology and methodology; The inquiry paradigm in qualitative tourism research; Knowing about tourism: epistemological issues; A primer in ontological craft: the creative capture of people and places through qualitative research; Ontological craft in tourism studies: the productive mapping of identity and image in tourism settings

(Dis)embodied experience and power dynamics in tourism researchStandpoint research: multiple versions of reality in tourism theorising and research; Reflexivity and tourism research: situating myself and/with others; Trustworthiness in qualitative tourism research; New wine in old bottles: an adjustment of priorities in the anthropological study of tourism; From ontology, epistemology and methodology to the field; From research theory to



Sommario/riassunto

The first book to focus solely upon qualitative research in tourism, it combines discussions of the philosophies underpinning qualitative research, with chapters written in a reflexive style that demonstrate the ways in which the techniques can be