Exploring synergies: Hopeful tourism and citizen science

摘要: The strength of the tourism academic field is arguably its capacity to facilitate investigations thatspan business as well physical and social sciences. While this does not mean that disciplinesare irrelevant in tourism, it has been argued an inter-disciplinary scholarship could lead topost-disciplinary contributions—perspectives are more problem-focused, based on flexiblemodes knowledgeproduction,plurality, synthesis greater synergy (Coles,Hall, & Duval, 2006, p.293). We situate note within fluid, context, with intent criticallyreview recent conceptual development hopeful citizen science—a scientific fieldin which ordinary citizens collect data for purposes public good (Dickinson &Bonney, 2012). suggest there similarities between science hopefultourism argue two fields tocommon research agendas.Hopeful emerged a transformative perspective knowledge production(Pritchard, Morgan, Ateljevic, 2011). Its advocates claim characterised byhumanist, value-led scholarship, ethics respect human dignity. It transactional,subjectivist, value-mediated epistemology where nature byco-transformative learnings (Pritchard et al., agenda currentlyfocuses topics such as: good, harmony balance, aesthetics beauty, mindful develop-ment, values ethics, neglected ways knowing, under-served emancipatory worlds, so on.This recently criticized by some scholars who doesnot go far enough making sure really ‘‘interrogates tourism’s role oppression’’(Higgins-Desbiolles Whyte, 2013, p.22). critics argue: ‘‘We challenge all critical scholarsto engage methodologies beyond hope. live under grave threats people ofpower privilege assert right usurp remaining finite resources leaving majority