TY - JOUR
T1 - ANT
T2 - a decade of interfering with tourism
AU - van der Duim, René
AU - Ren, Carina Bregnholm
AU - Jóhannesson, Gunnar Thór
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - Ten years ago actor-network theory (ANT) entered this journal. To illustrate how the relational ontology and sensibilities of ANT lend themselves to particular kinds of research, we first interrogate the main controversies as a way to open up and discuss the main premises of ANT. These debates concern the status and agency of objects and non-humans, ANT’s denial of the explanatory power of social structures, and the political implications of ANT. Second we present ANT’s relevance for tourism studies and discuss what ANT ‘does’ in practice. After summarizing a decade of relations between ANT and tourism, we conclude by tracing three future trajectories of how we have ‘moved away with’ ANT into new areas of discovery.
AB - Ten years ago actor-network theory (ANT) entered this journal. To illustrate how the relational ontology and sensibilities of ANT lend themselves to particular kinds of research, we first interrogate the main controversies as a way to open up and discuss the main premises of ANT. These debates concern the status and agency of objects and non-humans, ANT’s denial of the explanatory power of social structures, and the political implications of ANT. Second we present ANT’s relevance for tourism studies and discuss what ANT ‘does’ in practice. After summarizing a decade of relations between ANT and tourism, we conclude by tracing three future trajectories of how we have ‘moved away with’ ANT into new areas of discovery.
U2 - 10.1016/j.annals.2017.03.006
DO - 10.1016/j.annals.2017.03.006
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0160-7383
VL - 64
SP - 139
EP - 149
JO - Annals of Tourism Research
JF - Annals of Tourism Research
ER -