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Researchers as Tourists: Fieldwork, Contingency and Autoethnography book cover

1st Edition

Researchers as Tourists Fieldwork, Contingency and Autoethnography

Edited By Lauren Dyll, Keyan G. Tomaselli Copyright 2026
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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Academics are often tourists—curious, observant, and ethically entangled in the worlds they move through, blurring the lines between research and leisure, between consumption and contemplation in contemporary cultural studies. Through reflexive and often autoethnographic accounts, these scholar-tourists expose the tensions between authenticity and performance, ethics and enjoyment, distance and... Read more

Introduction: researchers as tourists

Keyan G. Tomaselli and Lauren Dyll

 

Part 1: Fieldwork contingency and analytic devices to challenge assumptions: cultural studies and positional reflexivity

1. Telling a good story

Keyan G. Tomaselli and Andrew Causey

 

2. Drawing flies: artwork in the field

Andrew Causey

 

3. Travel to a place both sad and cute

Andrew Causey

 

4. Privileged migration: American undergraduates, study abroad, academic tourism

Marcus Breen

 

5. In praise of religious reflexivity: reflections from fieldwork

Yaniv Belhassen

 

6. Stumbling over researcher positionality and political-temporal contingency in South African second-home tourism research

Gijsbert Hoogendoorn and Gustav Visser

 

7. The Tourism Researcher: ethical dilemmas during fieldwork in Africa, Bali and Myanmar

Claudia Bell

 

Part 2: Tourism as consumption

8. Consuming nature: Antarctica, penguins and pollution

Keyan G. Tomaselli

 

9. The baba and the patrao: negotiating localness in the tourist village

Pavithra Prasad

 

10. Your comfortable shopping

Patricia Ann McNair

 

11. The final frontier? An expedition to Antarctica and implications for the future

Malek Al-Chalabi

 

12. Authenticity and the contradictions of the “ecotourism script”: global marketing and local politics in Ghana

Bram Büscher, Renée van den Bremer, Robert Fletcher and Stasja Koot

 

Index

Biography

Lauren Dyll is a National Research Foundation-rated scholar and Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, with research interests in cultural heritage and tourism, participation, identity, and knowledge production. She is the co-chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research and is the co-editor of the journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.

Keyan G. Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and a founder and the co-editor of Critical Arts. His applied research on cultural tourism from the perspectives of both subjects and tourists is widely published and impactful of actual ventures across South Africa.

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