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title = "Tourism studies and the lost mandates of knowing: matters of epistemology for the inscriptive/projective industry",
abstract = "This chapter tracks its companion chapter on {\textquoteleft}ontology{\textquoteright} by scrutinising epistemological concerns in advanced qualitative research (or rather in critico-interpretive inquiry) in Tourism Studies in Asia. It labels epistemology as the metaphysical endeavour to inspect the manner by which (within a society or institution) knowledge is procured, i.e. how it is won, secured, and turned into {\textquoteleft}truth{\textquoteright}. In it, tourism is adjudged to be an involved political arena where many different actors think variously about the cultural/social/environmental/psychic/other complexities of travel and respond differently to vogue representations of space and place. To deal with these contested outlooks on the inscribed drawcards/projected narratives of tourism – and map the epistemological fault lines of embedded populations and interest groups – the chapter calls for new imagination in the metaphysics of knowing. In demanding regular engagement with {\textquoteleft}open{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}critical{\textquoteright} inquiry, it particularly advocates experimentation with transdisciplinary and postdisciplinary approaches to capture {\textquoteleft}old Asian mandates of knowing{\textquoteright} (often lost under the weight of Western/Eurocentric certitudes in the marketplace of tourism or in the Tourism Studies academy) but also to corral emergent/hybridised/transitional forms of {\textquoteleft}new Asian knowing{\textquoteright}, today. In this light, the work of Indian-born cultural theorist Homi Bhabha is harnessed to help those who operate within tourism (or who research the felt/the said/the known per tourism) in the involved double hermeneutics of truth-making, viz. to not only know how a society knows things but how a researcher herself/himself reflexively knows that. ",
keywords = "Research ethics, Grounded theory methodology, Qualitative tourism research, Asia, Asian research paradigms, Research methodology, Critical turn in tourism studies, Hopeful tourism, Academy of hope, Ethnographic fieldwork, Critical theory, Non-positivist paradigm, Autoethnography, Narrative analysis, Interpretive methodology, Reflexive methodology, Research paradigm, Research method",
author = "Keith Hollinshead and Rukeya Suleman",
year = "2018",
month = feb,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-10-7491-2\_3",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789811074905",
series = "Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "51--79",
editor = "Paolo Mura and Khoo-Lattimore, \{Catheryn \}",
booktitle = "Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism",
address = "Germany",
}