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The Critical Call for Soft Science SAVVY Today: The Demand for 'transient Diversity' in Inquiry within International Tourism Studies / Related Fields
The Critical Call for Soft Science SAVVY Today: The Demand for 'transient Diversity' in Inquiry within International Tourism Studies / Related Fields
Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 11:02
Location: 201A (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
Oral Presentation
The presenters (of this second of the paired sessions on the need for a regular short course in emergent interpretive and qualitative practices) will argue that such an embedded INTERNATIONAL SHORT COURSE IN SOFT SCIENCE should thus inspect what the fresh turn-of-the-century ventilations in research design and paradigmatic thought possibly mean for Tourism Studies (and Companion Subjects).
They will make the case that such a short course should be oriented principally to the interests of advanced researchers (particularly to in-the-van doctoral students), and that it should trace the new permissibilities (but also the new strictures!!) of Critical Theory, Constructivism / Constructionism, Advanced Qualitative Research, and Advanced Interpretive Critique. They will argue that while the short course ought not be built around instruction in singular methods, per se --- for decent schooling in each individual method amongst the teeming profusion of available methods would conceivably take the whole of a given day!!
Participants on such a short course should expect to emerge from it with an enhanced understanding of:
- new scepticisms which are nowadays held about the mid-to-late 20th century monologics of 'orthodox social science research';
- new intellectual openness of many 21st century SOFT SCIENCE (human inquiry) research designs;
- fresh possibilities newly apparent in 'intimate' / 'emic' / 'locally engaged' styles of inquiry;
- character of recent shifts towards activist and politically-committed inquiry;
- late liberalisations for enhanced forms of 'relationship-research' and 'solidarity-research';
- strong questioning of axiomatic 'expert-driven' research processes, as 'dialogic' forms of inquiry are increasingly cultivated; and,
- the equally strong questioning that has been witnessed recently against conventional styles of 'a priori driven' and 'intensely criteriological' regimes in social science research.