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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: The ‘Critical Turn’ in Tourism Studies: A Radical Critique
Description: Jaeyeon Choe talks to Raoul Bianchi about The Critical TurnAbstractIn many respects Tourism Studies appears to be increasingly divided between the unquestioning embrace of the market, on the one hand, and questions of discourse, culture, and representation on the other. This apparent rift also conceals a growing convergence around the significance of ‘culture’ and cultural analyses in tourism, brought about by greater engagement with post-structural theory and a concomitant retreat from political economy. Accordingly, this paper evaluates the scope and potential for a revitalized radical critique of tourism that engages with issues of p...