A (Deleuzian) posthumanist paradigm for tourism research

Guía, Jaume; Jamal, Tazim

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2020.102982

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“…As this case study illustrates, studying human and non-human participants in relational networks offers ontological and epistemological insights that merit greater attention in future research that seeks non-dualistic, non-anthropocentric approaches that are sensitive to gender, race, and power as enacted in indivisible relations with tangible (material) and intangible cultural heritage [63]. The case study also points to the importance of future research to attend more closely to the interrelatedness of built heritage with intangible cultural heritage in order to better understand and implement strategies for heritage conservation and tourism development.…”

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Interrelations of Ancestral Textile Handicraft Weaving and Tangible Vernacular Karkhanehs (Workspaces) in the Historic Destination of Yazd, Iran

Seddighikhavidak

Jamal

2022

Sustainability

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This research studies the traces of an ancestral textile produced in karkhanehs (workspaces) located in the historical city of Yazd, Iran. The case study undertaken here demonstrates how an intangible heritage of textile weaving through generations of families in Yazd, Iran, interrelates with tangible vernacular architecture and tourism at three different scales: (i) in everyday life in karkhanehs at home, (ii) in the neighborhoods, and (iii) the UNESCO World Heritage city of Yazd. The three scales related to the enactment of this vernacular handicraft are examined using architectural methods to examine structures ranging from 90 to 600 years in age. This was complemented by discussions with local weavers and residents, as well as direct observation in domiciles, neighborhoods, and the city. Actor-Network Theory helped to trace the networks of actors and relationships between the tangible built architectural heritage and intangible cultural practices of weaving, showing how different genders, ages, worldviews (beliefs) and practices came together to produce this heritage textile. Actor-Network Theory also helped to study the relationships between economy, culture, society and tourism, with respect to the evolution and transformations of the historic urban dwellings, vernacular architecture and vernacular weaving handicrafts through the three scales examined. Implications for sustaining and conserving this ancestral tradition of textile weaving and managing tourism’s positive as well as disruptive influences on cultural heritage conservation are discussed.

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Interrelations of Ancestral Textile Handicraft Weaving and Tangible Vernacular Karkhanehs (Workspaces) in the Historic Destination of Yazd, Iran

Seddighikhavidak

Jamal

2022

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“…Embodiment and creative transformations in anthropomorphism and zoomorphism are de-centering privileged humanist values and blurring the boundaries of what constitutes "personhood". Future research will require new strategies and methodologies to understand posthuman encounters as well as critical perspectives, situated knowledges and standpoint epistemologies [88], posthumanist approaches such as Actor Network Theory and poststructural Deleuzian ethics [101]. Relational, non-dualist epistemologies, and posthumanist ontologies offer avenues to explore and develop new research paradigms and new approaches to design thinking that are needed to engage responsibly and effectively with service robot innovations in hospitality and tourism (see, for example, [97]).…”

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Co-Creating New Directions for Service Robots in Hospitality and Tourism

Fusté‐Forné

Jamal

2021

Tourism and Hospitality

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Research on the relationship between automation services and tourism has been rapidly growing in recent years and has led to a new service landscape where the role of robots is gaining both practical and research attention. This paper builds on previous reviews and undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the research literature to discuss opportunities and challenges presented by the use of service robots in hospitality and tourism. Management and ethical issues are identified and it is noted that practical and ethical issues (roboethics) continue to lack attention. Going forward, new directions are urgently needed to inform future research and practice. Legal and ethical issues must be proactively addressed, and new research paradigms developed to explore the posthumanist and transhumanist transitions that await. In addition, closer attention to the potential of “co-creation” for addressing innovations in enhanced service experiences in hospitality and tourism is merited. Among others, responsibility, inclusiveness and collaborative human-robot design and implementation emerge as important principles to guide future research and practice in this area.

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“…Such a neoliberal uneven flat spatiality, imbued with unjust power-geometries and forces, results in uneven mobility actions and (lack of) affective relations that are expressions of a mono-dimensional hodological spaces made of given, preferred, itineraries and movements on a flat surface. Hence, a space understood via an ontology rooted in the dualism subject/object seems not to allow for a deep justice (Guia, 2021;Guia & Jamal, 2020) nor spatial justice.…”

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“…That approach is broken as it has resulted in mass explotation of people and place. Massey's ruminations on space (2005), the Posthumanism mobile ontology with its relational rhizomatic subjectivity and affirmative ethics (Braidotti, 2011(Braidotti, , 2013Latour, 2007) constitute a theoretical perspective that can offer us guidance on a novel understanding of tourism, and spatial justice in tourism studies (Cohen, 2019;Guia, 2021;Guia & Jamal, 2020). We have critically reflected on a novel ontic foundation for a sustainable just tourism space that provides a conceptually rich picture of space, tourism, and mobility from a perspective of field theory, hodological space, posthuman ontology, and affirmative ethics.…”

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Rethinking the space of tourism, its power-geometries, and spatial justice

Tomassini

Lamond

2022

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This article critically reflects on the space of tourism and its intersection with spatial justice. Despite the urgency to embrace a more just, sustainable, tourism the space of tourism has not yet received a sufficiently forceful reflection. Our study contributes to filling that gap by proposing a novel theoretical framework that combines Massey's spatial turn in the social sciences, with the posthuman, affirmative ethics of Braidotti, while drawing on elements of Field Theory/Hodological Space in Lewin. We move from an overview of the sociological space of tourism, articulated by neoliberal capitalism, through a critique built upon the spatial turn in the social sciences, arguing that space is relational, imbued with power geometries, the product of interrelations, and always under construction. We develop a conceptual model that draws on Latour's Actor-Network Theory and aspects of Field Theory, which understands space as an individual lived experience (hodological space). That theorisation is then extended to the space of tourism through the lens of the posthuman, affirmative ethics, and mobile ontologies of both human and non-human actants. In doing so the novel theoretical framework we develop exposes the complexity and nuance of the space of tourism and enables the possibility of spatially just tourism.

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A (Deleuzian) posthumanist paradigm for tourism research

Abstract: Highlights Filling critical theoretical gaps in tourism research Gilles Deleuze offers postdualist, process-oriented ontology of difference. Posthumanist paradigm to understand human-technological world, ethics, and sustainability in tourism research

Cited by 28 publications

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Interrelations of Ancestral Textile Handicraft Weaving and Tangible Vernacular Karkhanehs (Workspaces) in the Historic Destination of Yazd, Iran

Interrelations of Ancestral Textile Handicraft Weaving and Tangible Vernacular Karkhanehs (Workspaces) in the Historic Destination of Yazd, Iran

Co-Creating New Directions for Service Robots in Hospitality and Tourism

Rethinking the space of tourism, its power-geometries, and spatial justice

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