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Indigenisation of scholarship: go native but don't be naive
Many criticisms have been levelled against tourism scholarship for being too western-centric. This paper supports the call for the indigenisation of tourism scholarship but points to four concerns. Knowledge generation, whether it is by locals or not, is inherently political. Our understanding and packaging of another society and culture will always be partial. Privileging indigenised scholarship can be regressive, and help authorities in their social engineering programmes. Despite the respect for diversity in scholarship, the tourism industry is still embedded within the global and neo-liberal capitalist structures. The goal of liberating scholarship should not just rely on the symbolic and discursive, else it will just be being naïve.
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Publication title
Sustainability of Tourism, Hospitality & Events in a Disruptive Digital Age: Conference Proceedings: CAUTHE 2019Editors
A Pabel, E Konovalov, L Cassidy, and P JosePagination
620-623Department/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Central Queensland UniversityPlace of publication
Cairns, QLDEvent title
CAUTHE 2019: Sustainability of Tourism, Hospitality and Events in a Disruptive Digital AgeEvent Venue
CQUniversityDate of Event (Start Date)
2019-02-11Date of Event (End Date)
2019-02-14Repository Status
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