1st Edition
Vulnerabilities and Viabilities in Tourism Studies
Introduction: Vulnerabilities in tourism scholarship – scholars’ plea for a viable future
Shalini Singh
1. Tourism studies and the changing research ecosystem
Rene Brauer
2. Rethinking or reinventing tourism? Exposing the ontological and epistemological conflicts in tourism studies literature during the COVID-19 pandemic
Boualem Kadri, Dominic Lapointe and Samira Tacherifet
3. Free time as a central issue of tourism studies: a genealogy of leisure/idleness based on the indigenous cosmovisions of Latin America
Mozart Fazito and Sebastião Vargas
4. Kinmaking: toward more-than-tourism (studies)
Tomas Pernecky
5. Is an axiological turn viable for tourism studies? Reinvestigating the platforms model
Johan R. Edelheim and Mia Tillonen
6. Studying tourism means going to have a look for yourself: co-research, vulnerabilities and opportunities after the pandemic
John Hutnyk
7. Religion, spirituality, and the formation of tourism knowledge
Stephen Schweinsberg
8. Economies of attention and the design of viable tourism futures
Rodanthi Tzanelli
9. The ‘misplaced’ vulnerability of tourism studies: towards a relational ontology, epistemological pluralism and affirmative ethics
Jaume Guia and Marlisa Ayu Trisia
10. Complementarity: bridging the tourism academic/religion divide
Stephen Schweinsberg
Biography
Shalini Singh is Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock University, Canada. Her research explores aspects of leisure tourism with a focus on domestic tourism and cultural heritage, spirituality and place – people synergies. Her current engagement with UNESCO’s religio-heritage site of Bodhgaya (India) seeks to investigate the agency of such destinations in international diplomacy.
