On Western-centrism and “Chineseness” in tourism studies

Hazel Tucker and Zhang, Jundan (Jasmine)

Annals of Tourism Research, 2016, vol. 61, issue C, 250-252

Abstract: •Critically addresses tourism studies’ position on the growing Asian tourist markets.•Highlights the recent calls to confront the Anglo-Western centrism in tourism studies.•Reflects on the authors’ “ambiguous” positioning as scholars in this context.•Critiques dividing of epistemologies and knowledge into ‘Western’ and ‘Non-Western’.•Suggests engagement with critical postcolonial thought to address such binaries.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2016.09.007

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