Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism: Ontologies, Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods

ISBN-13: 9789811339561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 311 str.

Paolo Mura; Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

Spis treści

1. Locating Asian research and selves in qualitative tourism research

Paolo Mura and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore 

Part I. The Move Away towards an Asian Research Paradigm

2. Tourism studies and the metaphysics of presence: matters of ontology and the enlightened eye

Keith Hollinshead and Rukeya Suleman

3. Tourism and the lost mandates of knowing: matters of epistemology for the inscriptive / projective industry

Keith Hollinshead and Rukeya Suleman

4. Beyond theorising: distinguishing between the limitations of critical theory and the researcher

Joo-Ee Gan

5. Situating Asian tourism ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies: from colonialism to neo-colonialism

Sarah N. R. Wijesinghe and Paolo Mura

6. How could we be non-Western? Some ontological and epistemological ponderings on Chinese tourism research

Jundan (Jasmine) Zhang

Part II. Researching the Asian Way: Methodologies and Methods

7. Qualitative research skill training: learning ethnography in the field

Stuart Hayes and Hazel Tucker

8. Working and traveling in New Zealand: a reflective narrative in the field

Hongrui Zhu, Hazel Tucker, and Tara Duncan

9. The qualitative other: an autoethnography

Matias Thuen Jørgensen

10. Understanding ethnography: an ‘exotic’ ethnographer’s perspective

Mayukh Dewan

11. Utilising collaborative-autoethnography in exploring affinity tourism: insights from experiences in the field at Gardens by the Bay

Josephine Pryce and Hayley Pryce

12. Co-construction in the study of trade union movements in the Nepalese tourism industry using a grounded theory approach

Sandeep Basnyat

Part III. Asian Introspection and Reflexivity in Research

13. Qualitative research in tourism: reflections of an Asian researcher

Sushila Devi S. Rajaratnam

14. Black on brown: research paradoxes for black scholars working in ethnic communities

Samuel Adeyinka-Ojo and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

15. Prophet or profit? Emotional reflections on Indonesian tourism

Dini Mariska and Eric J. Shelton

16.‘When in Rome do as the Romans do’? A reflective account on methodological approach during PhD journey

Vahideh Abaeian

Vignettes

Vignette 1. The Yes-No-Ma'amsir Blur

Brooke Porter

Vignette 2. The power of a pilot visit

Nicholas Towner

Vignette 3. How will you measure? Lessons for young, novice researchers

Heesu Lee

Vignette 4. What conflict? Interviewing South Koreans on controversial issues

Mona Ji Hyun Yang

Vignette 5. Round Peg, Square Hole: The Significance of Perceived Personal Image in Academia

Ryan Yung

Vignette 6. Bottoms up! Secrets to overcoming cultural barriers for data collection in Vietnam

Giang T. Phi

O autorze

Paolo Mura is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of the Postgraduate Programmes, Graduate School of Hospitality and Tourism, Taylor's University, Selangor, Malaysia. His research interests include tourist behaviour, gender and tourism, and qualitative tourism research.

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She is a Networking Committee Member of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) and is on the executive committee for the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE). She researches emerging trends in women and family travel and tourism, as well as consumer behaviour (tourists and guests), services marketing, and qualitative research methods.

Blurb

This book explores the ontologies, epistemologies, methodologies, and methods that inform tourism qualitative research conducted either by Asian scholars or non-Asian scholars focusing on Asia. In addition to providing a platform for researchers to publish their qualitative journeys, it aims to encourage further Asian qualitative tourism research production.

The book not only includes chapters from Asian scholars but also non-Asian tourism researchers with a focus on Asia, as their chapters are crucial to represent the multiplicity of realities constituting ‘Asia’. It is of interest to the whole tourism academic community as it provides novel methodological insights from a non-Western perspective, which at the moment are often silenced by dominant (Western) voices.