Philosophy and methodological tradition of hermenuetics and phenomenology in researching 'lived experience'
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2009
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Wijesinghe, G.
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Richards, R.
Victoria, V.
Victoria, V.
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3rd critical tourism studies conference proceedings, 2009 / Richards, R., Victoria, V. (ed./s)
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Connecting academies of hope : critical actions and creative vistas : 3rd critical tourism studies conference (21 Jun 2009 - 24 Jun 2009 : Zadar, Croatia)
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This paper explicates the philosophical and methodological tradition, underlying hermeneutics and phenomenology with the view to illustrate how they can be applied in a research design of a lived experience study. In particular, this study focuses on how the two approaches of interpretative hermeneutics and phenomenology could form the methodology to portray and interpret lived experiences of practitioners. The aim of this paper is to show thesuitabHity of these approaches and how they inform the inquiry process. It does this by plotting the various. theoretical and philosophical tenets that shape these two approaches, and suggesting how they can be combined as a methodology in tourism and hospitality contexts. An understanding of the philosophical tenets provided in this study can benefit the researcher by providing greater control, choice and creativity with the kinds of methods and techniques that could be adopted to conduct a lived experience study.
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Copyright 2009 Gayathri (Gee) Wijesinghe