Qualitative research in tourism : ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies

Qualitative Research in Tourism
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility Series Editor: Michael Hall
Contents
7 Standpoint research: multiple versions of reality in tourism theorising and research 119 8 Reflexivity and tourism research: situating myself and/with others 137 9 Trustworthiness in qualitative tourism research 156 10 New wine in old bottles: an adjustment of priorities in the anthropological study of tourism 170 11 From ontology, epistemology and methodology to the field 185 From research theory to practice 195 12 The research process as a journey: from positivist traditions into the realms of qualitative inquiry 197 13 Let your data do the talking: researching the solo travel experiences of British and American women 215 14 The life and work history methodology: a discussion of its potential use for tourism and hospitality research 236 15 Memory-work 255 16 Contributions of qualitative research to understanding the politics of community ecotourism 273
17 Shared benefits: longitudinal research in eastern Indonesia 292 18 Translators, trust and truth: cross-cultural issues in sustainable tourism research 311
Illustrations
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part I
1 Progress in qualitative research in tourism
Thinking about researching the social world
2 The inquiry paradigm in qualitative tourism research
3 Knowing about tourism
Tourism: two fields studied through multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and extradisciplinarity
Problematising tourism knowledge
4 A primer in ontological craft
Background to the new profusion of qualitative research approaches: the continuum for ‘naturalistic’ techniques to ‘progressive’ techniques
5 Ontological craft in tourism studies
6 (Dis)embodied experience and power dynamics in tourism research
Terms of embodiment
7 Standpoint research
8 Reflexivity and tourism research
9 Trustworthiness in qualitative tourism research
Criteria of trustworthiness
Triangulation
Implementing trustworthiness: an illustration
Summary
10 New wine in old bottles
Acknowledgement
11 From ontology, epistemology and methodology to the field
Part II From research theory to practice
12 The research process as a journey
Method
Critique and evaluation
Reflecting upon the ‘journey’
Questions
13 Let your data do the talking
14 The life and work history methodology
Work history analysis
Questions
15 Memory-work
Phase 2: The collective meets
16 Contributions of qualitative research to understanding the politics of community ecotourism
From participant observation to participatory research
17 Shared benefits
Summary
18 Translators, trust and truth
Index