The critical turn in tourism studies : creating an academy of hope / / edited by Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan and Annette Pritchard

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/791
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Study and teaching; Tourism
• Altri autori: AteljevicIrena MorganNigel PritchardAnnette
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 educating future tourism and hospitality managers and researchers. This second edition intends to move the debate forward by exploring how critical tourism inquiry can make a difference in the world, linking tourism education driven by the values of empowerment, partnership and ethics to policy an
• Titolo autorizzato: The critical turn in tourism studies
• ISBN: 1-138-08126-4; 0-203-80658-1; 1-136-65639-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808160603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in tourism.