Research NoteA (Deleuzian) posthumanist paradigm for tourism research
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Deleuze and tourism research
Deleuze's philosophy has remained mostly unnoticed by tourism scholars, despite the prominent role that posthumanistic encounters with the human and non-human other play in his philosophy. In their work, Gren and Huijberns (2011) and Olafsdottir, Huijbens, and Benediktsson (2013) refer implicitly to a Deleuzian plane of immanence to underscore the singular relationality of the social and the material that is inherent in touristic spaces, places and practices. A few other researchers have also
Closing the posthumanism gap: future research directions
The Deleuzian posthumanist paradigm together with unexplored Deleuzian concepts like minor politics, affects, becoming-other, dismantling the face, or immanent rights, offer a valuable start to filling the current gap in theory building on justice and tourism. His critical relational approach offers theoretical guidance to re-think and re-approach research about neocolonial, neoliberal and anthropocentric understandings of tourism; about the moralistic understanding of responsibility,
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