New approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable 'critical turn' - a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. The chapters in this volume reflect this emerging critical school of tourism studies and represent a coordinated effort of tourism scholars whose work engages innovative research methodologies. Since such work has been dispersed across a variety of tourism-related and other research fields, this book responds to a pressing need to consolidate recent advances in a single text. Adopting a broad definition of 'criticality', the contributors seek to find 'fresh' ways of theorising tourism by locating the phenomenon in its wider political, economic, cultural and social contexts. The collection addresses the power relations underpinning the production of academic knowledge; presents a range of qualitative data collection methods which confront the field's dominant (post)positivist approaches; foregrounds the emotional dynamics of research relations and explores the personal, the political and the situated nature of research journeys.

Irena Ateljevic, Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan

Introduction Editors' Introduction: Promoting an Academy of Hope in Tourism Enquiry, Irena Ateljevic, Nigel Morgan, Annette Pritchard; Part 1 THE CRITICAL SCHOOL OF TOURISM STUDIES: CRAFTING THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL GROUNDS; Chapter 1 De-centring Tourism's Intellectual Universe, or Traversing the Dialogue Between Change and Tradition, Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan; Chapter 2 Critical Tourism: Rules and Resistance, John Tribe; Chapter 3 Structural Entanglements and the Strategy of Audiencing as a Reflexive Technique, Candice Harris, Erica Wilson, Irena Ateljevic; Chapter 4 Resisting Rationalisation in the Natural and Academic Life-World: Critical Tourism Research or Hermeneutic Charity?, Tazim B. Jamal, Jeff Everett; Chapter 5 * This text is the unedited version of my Inaugural Professorial Lecture presented at the University of the West of England, Bristol on 10th July 2006. The lecture marked the launch of the Bristol UWE Research Centre for Leisure, Tourism and Society (CeLTS) and took place on the eve of the 31st Annual Leisure Studies Association Conference, Making Space: Leisure, Tourism and Renewal hosted by Bristol UWE. I am deeply grateful to everyone who attended the lecture, the research centre launch and the conference, to those who have supported my journeys towards these destinations and to those who have 'made a difference' in leisure, sport and tourism theory, policy and practice., Cara Carmichael Aitchison; Chapter 6 Gender Analysis in Tourism: Personal and Global Dialectics, Margaret Byrne Swain, Derek Hall; Chapter 7 Interrogating the 'Critical' in Critical Approaches to Tourism Research, Donna Chambers; Chapter 8 A Realist Critique of the Situated Voice in Tourism Studies, David Botterill; Chapter 9 The Problem with Tourism Theory, Adrian Franklin; Chapter 10 Tourism, Materiality and Space, René van der Duim; Chapter 11 'Worldmaking' and the Transformation of Place and Culture: The Enlargement of Meethan's Analysis of Tourism and Global Change, Keith Hollinshead; Part 2 METHODOLOGIES, INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES, METHODS OF INTERPRETATION AND WRITING STRATEGIES; Chapter 12 Grounded Theory: Innovative Methodology or a Critical Turning from Hegemonic Methodological Praxis in Tourism Studies, Gayle Jennings, Olga Junek; Chapter 13 Immersing in Ontology and the Research Process: Constructivism the Foundation for Exploring the (In)Credible OBE?, Tomas Pernecky; Chapter 14 The Beauty in the Form: Ethnomethodology and Tourism Studies, Scott McCabe; Chapter 15 From Principles to Practices in Feminist Tourism Research: A Call for Greater Use of the Survey Method and the Solicited Diary, Bente Heimtun; Chapter 16 Unresolved Power for Feminist Researchers Employing Memory-Work, Jennie Small, Kate Cadman, Lorraine Friend, Susanne Gannon, Christine Ingleton, Glenda Koutroulis, Coralie McCormack, Patricia Mitchell, Jenny Onyx, Kerry O'Regan, Sharn Rocco; Chapter 17 Enhancing the Interpretive and Critical Approaches to Tourism Education Enquiry Through a Discursive Analysis, Maureen Ayikoru, John Tribe; Chapter 18 What Lies Beneath? Using Creative, Projective and Participatory Techniques in Qualitative Tourism Inquiry, Sheena Westwood; Chapter 19 Pursuing the Past: Using Oral History to Bring Transparency to the Research Process, Julia Trapp-Fallon; Chapter 20 The Contribution of Biographical Research in Understanding Older Women's Leisure, Diane Sedgley; Chapter 21 The Language(s) of the Tourist Experience: An Autoethnography of the Poetic Tourist, Chaim Noy; Chapter 22 Re-Peopling Tourism: A 'Hot Approach' to Studying Thanatourist Experiences, Ria Ann Dunkley; Chapter 23 Processes of Becoming: Academic Journeys, Moments and Reflections, Stephen Doorne, Stephanie Hom Cary, Graham Brown, Jo-Anne Lester, Kath Browne, Tomas Pernecky, Susanna Curtin, Martine Abramovici, Nigel Morgan;