No high hopes for hopeful tourism: a critical comment
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2013
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Higgins Desbiolles, B.F.
Whyte, K.P.
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Annals of Tourism Research, 2013; 40(1):428-433
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Pritchard, Morgan, and Ateljevic (2011) have contributed to tourism studies by providing a preliminary framework for the emerging critical tourism perspective. This framework calls for ‘‘hopeful tourism’’ research which they describe as ‘‘ . . . a values-led humanist approach based on partnership, reciprocity and ethics, which aims for co-created learning, and which recognises the power of sacred and indigenous knowledge and passionate scholarship’’ (2011, p. 929). Despite the positive connotations of many of these words, we are uneasy about the agenda being set by their work. We would ask: why would Pritchard et al. discard criticalness for the sake of instilling hopefulness in the tourism academy and to what effect? We write this response in the spirit of a dialogue where discussion of intellectual differences and diverging views motivates greater solidarity among people dedicated to exposing oppression in the world and eliminating its foundations. This form of dialogue has been championed by bell hooks (1994, p. 130), on whom Pritchard et al. rely heavily in their article.
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Copyright 2012 Elsevier