Ordering, materiality and multiplicity: Enacting ANT in Tourism

René van der Duim, Carina Bregnholm Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson

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    Abstract

    In this article we discuss how ANT has been translated into tourism research and show how it has impacted the field by presenting three concepts integral to the ANT approach: ordering, materiality and multiplicity. We first introduce ANT and draw attention to current ANT studies in tourism, followed by a discussion of how newer approaches within post-ANT urge us to face the ontological politics, which we engage in when performing tourism research. In conclusion we argue that ANT enables a radical new way at looking at tourism, tourism destinations and objects and investigations into the ontological condition of tourism.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalTourist Studies
    Volume13
    Issue number1
    Pages (from-to)3-20
    Number of pages18
    ISSN1468-7976
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2013

    Keywords

    • Tourism
    • Actor-Network Theory

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