Qualitative Methodologies in Tourism Studies

<p>Disruptive and creative research methodologies proposed in this book are designed to dismantle neoliberal narratives deployed in tourism studies and wider social sciences. Progressing criticality in tourism studies, this volume showcases cutting-edge contributions ranging from reflexivity, subjectivities, and dreams; to messy emotions in auto-ethnographic accounts of fieldwork; ‘motherhood capital’ accessing Inuit communities; collective memory work; ethnodrama and creative non-fiction, amongst others.</p><p>Disruption and creativity are the two ideas around which tourism geographers challenge and begin dismantling hegemonic ideologies in tourism studies. The chapters in this book provide a vantage point from where to disrupt first, before tourism geographers can engender progress and transformation within and outside of the field. In tourism studies in general, and tourism geography in particular, the years of the 2000s have witnessed an emphasis on qualitative methodological research, both in terms of the topics addressed and the types of methodological tools. In many ways, this legitimisation of qualitative work mirrors developments in other areas such as human geography, sociology and anthropology, in which this book is anchored. The authors debate in more depth how tourism studies offer multidimensional, multilogical and multi-emotional approaches to research design. </p><p>The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the journal, <i>Tourism Geographies.</i></p> <p>Foreword Introduction: Creative and disruptive methodologies in tourism studies <strong>Part I: Dis-rupting Methodologies </strong>1. Collective memory work as an unsettling methodology in tourism 2. ‘Motherhood capital’ in tourism fieldwork: experiences from Arctic Canada 3. Social constructionism as a tool to maintain an advantage in tourism research 4. Disruptive and Adaptive Methods in Activist Tourism Studies: Socio-Spatial Imaginaries of Dissent 5. The disruptive ‘other’? Exploring human-animal relations in tourism through videography 6. Emplacing non-human voices in tourism research: the role of dissensus as a qualitative method 7. Hanging out on Snapchat: disrupting passive covert netnography in tourism research <strong>Part II: Re/Creating Methodologies </strong>8. A critical consideration of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology for tourism studies 9. Stakeholder engagement in sustainable tourism planning through serious gaming 10. Deep reflexivity in tourism research 11. Challenges in outdoor tourism explorations: an embodied approach 12. Leveraging digital and physical spaces to ‘de-risk’ and access Rio’s favela communities 13. Walking methodologies, digital platforms and the interrogation of Olympic spaces: the ‘#RioZones-Approach’ 14. ‘Que será, será!’: creative analytical practice within the critical sports event tourism discourse 15. Why is research–practice collaboration so challenging to achieve? A creative tourism experiment 16. The case for linguistic narrative analysis, illustrated studying small firms in tourism Afterword </p>