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Tourism translations This article discusses Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and its utility fortourism studies. It argues that ANT can be an effective methodological approach forstudying tourism development due to two reasons. First, its ability to deal withrelational materiality of the social world, immanent in the concept oftranslation which highlights the net-workpractices of differentactors; and second, its willingness to grasp multiple relational orderings, thusdrawing diverse forms of tourism spatiality into analysis. The article begins bybriefly sketching out the discourse on tourism and tourism development in relationto ANT. It then discusses the origins and characteristics of ANT. Special attentionis paid to the concept of translation and how the approach provides an alternativefocus for tourism research. The last part of the article briefly illustrates ANT asa methodological orientation through discussion of a tourism development project in Iceland. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

Tourism translations

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SAGE
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1468-7976
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1741-3206
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10.1177/1468797605066924
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Abstract

This article discusses Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and its utility fortourism studies. It argues that ANT can be an effective methodological approach forstudying tourism development due to two reasons. First, its ability to deal withrelational materiality of the social world, immanent in the concept oftranslation which highlights the net-workpractices of differentactors; and second, its willingness to grasp multiple relational orderings, thusdrawing diverse forms of tourism spatiality into analysis. The article begins bybriefly sketching out the discourse on tourism and tourism development in relationto ANT. It then discusses the origins and characteristics of ANT. Special attentionis paid to the concept of translation and how the approach provides an alternativefocus for tourism research. The last part of the article briefly illustrates ANT asa methodological orientation through discussion of a tourism development project in Iceland.

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Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE

Published: Aug 1, 2005

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