Political economy of tourism / edited by Jan Mosedale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mosedale, Jan.

Series:

Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Tourism--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 development amongst many others. As a critical theory, political economy seeks to provide an understanding of societies - and of the structures and social relations that form them - in order to evoke social change toward more equitable conditions. Despite the early influence of critical development studies

Contents:

""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 ""; ""6 Reflexivity 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 tourism ""; ""11 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 tourism ""; ""17 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?) culpa ""; ""23 Concluding thoughts: Where does fieldwork end and tourism begin? ""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-85951-9

0-203-83587-5

1-136-85952-7

9780203835876

OCLC:

773564502