Fieldwork in Tourism: Methods, Issues and Reflections - Brossura
Libro 23 di 103: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Sinossi
This is the first book to focus on this significant component of Tourism research. Given the inherent mobile nature of tourists as well as short period of interaction with tourists and visitors this creates specific challenges in the field for the Tourism researcher between self and other, relationships between researcher and informant, ethical challenges and various types of field research that can be conducted. This book provides hands on approaches to conducting fieldwork in a range of settings and in doing so explores these tourism specific fieldwork methodological considerations and offers strategies to mitigate these. The book incorporates a rich and diverse set of fieldwork experiences from leading international scholars which offers insight into the realities of field research process, how students and researchers can attempt to tackle challenging out in the field issues and methodologies that may be employed, as well as tips on writing up results.
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Contenuti
Part I: Introducing the Contexts of Fieldwork 1. Introduction: Researching in the Field 2. Defining and Redefining Modernity: The Importance of Theoretical Frameworks for Academic Research Part II: Research Relationships: Power, Politics and Patron-client affinities 3. The Politics of Tourism Research: Ethics, Issues, Methods and Practicalities of Political Fieldwork 4. At Home or in Exile: The challenges of negotiating research relationships 5. Studying local-to-global tourism dynamics through glocal ethnography 6.‘Playing by the rules’: the ethics of conducting politically-sensitive research in an authoritarian state 7. Reflexivity and Ethnography in Community Tourism Research 8. Interviewing Elites: Perspectives from the Medical Tourism Sector in India and Thailand Part III: Positionality: Researcher Position in the field, Practicalities, Perils, Pitfalls 9. Doing ‘Risky’ and ‘Sexy’ Research: Reframing the Concept of ‘Relational’ in Qualitative Research 10. Studying Halal Restaurants in New Zealand: Experiences and Perspectives of a Muslim Female Researcher 11. Researching Heritage Tourism in Singapore: An Outsider Perspective as an Asset? 12. Cosmopolitan Methodologies: Implications of the Ethnographer’s Multiple Positions in Studying Tourism 13. Bringing the Borders Home: Approaches to Tourist Life in Contemporary China Part IV: Processes and Methods 14. Managing post-fieldwork interpersonal relationships: mea (maxima?) culpa 15. Celebration, Collaboration, Community: Malaysian and Singaporean Students in the Field 16. Researching second home tourism in South Africa: methodological challenges and innovations 17. Off the Record: Segmenting Informal Discussions into Viable Methodological Categories 18. Know Yourself: Making the Visual Work in Tourism Research 19. Doing it My Way: Cross-Cultural Research on Cross-Border Mobility in Thailand 20. Work it Out: Using Work as Participant Observation to Study Tourism 21. On facing rejection: Volunteer tourists that I could not interview Part V: New Environments 22. In a Virtual World Can Anybody Hear You Scream?: Doing fieldwork in virtual space 23. Domestic Backpacking in China: Travel, the Internet and Virtual Ethnography 24. Indigenous Communities and Tourism: Integrating Humans in Environmental Research - Reflections From Northern Canada 25. Environmental fieldwork paper 26. Conclusion
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