Generation tourism: towards a common identity
The purpose of this article is to highlight the implications of the indiscipline of tourism academia for a new generation of tourism academics. Generation Tourism is characterised by scholars with a multi-disciplinary education associated with a broad field of study and commonly considered to lack t...
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| author | Filep, S. Hughes, Michael Mostafanezhad, M. Wheeler, F. |
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| description | The purpose of this article is to highlight the implications of the indiscipline of tourism academia for a new generation of tourism academics. Generation Tourism is characterised by scholars with a multi-disciplinary education associated with a broad field of study and commonly considered to lack the advantages of a discipline-focused education with its strong theoretical and methodological foundations. The problem this article addresses relates to how new generations of scholars and their views on knowledge creation achieve ascendancy in ways that move on from existing paradigms and earlier cohorts of scholars. Our main argument is that Generation Tourism scholars would benefit from a more clearly developed and common academic identity. To begin the critical conversation around the identity of Generation Tourism we outline five possible points of departure. These points are: (1) learning from historical developments in parent disciplines; (2) spearheading inter-disciplinary scholarship; (3) working towards theoretical developments; (4) embracing mediating methodologies and (5) forming tourism nodes and networks. Recognising these as starting points rather than final statements, we hope that the conversation about Generation Tourism identity will continue in other forums. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-214022017-09-13T13:54:26Z Generation tourism: towards a common identity Filep, S. Hughes, Michael Mostafanezhad, M. Wheeler, F. identity collaboration academic disciplines post-disciplinary institutionalisation The purpose of this article is to highlight the implications of the indiscipline of tourism academia for a new generation of tourism academics. Generation Tourism is characterised by scholars with a multi-disciplinary education associated with a broad field of study and commonly considered to lack the advantages of a discipline-focused education with its strong theoretical and methodological foundations. The problem this article addresses relates to how new generations of scholars and their views on knowledge creation achieve ascendancy in ways that move on from existing paradigms and earlier cohorts of scholars. Our main argument is that Generation Tourism scholars would benefit from a more clearly developed and common academic identity. To begin the critical conversation around the identity of Generation Tourism we outline five possible points of departure. These points are: (1) learning from historical developments in parent disciplines; (2) spearheading inter-disciplinary scholarship; (3) working towards theoretical developments; (4) embracing mediating methodologies and (5) forming tourism nodes and networks. Recognising these as starting points rather than final statements, we hope that the conversation about Generation Tourism identity will continue in other forums. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21402 10.1080/13683500.2013.855174 Channel View Publications fulltext |
| spellingShingle | identity collaboration academic disciplines post-disciplinary institutionalisation Filep, S. Hughes, Michael Mostafanezhad, M. Wheeler, F. Generation tourism: towards a common identity |
| title | Generation tourism: towards a common identity |
| title_full | Generation tourism: towards a common identity |
| title_fullStr | Generation tourism: towards a common identity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Generation tourism: towards a common identity |
| title_short | Generation tourism: towards a common identity |
| title_sort | generation tourism: towards a common identity |
| topic | identity collaboration academic disciplines post-disciplinary institutionalisation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21402 |