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Annals of Tourism Research

Volume 84, September 2020, 102982
Annals of Tourism Research

Research Note
A (Deleuzian) posthumanist paradigm for tourism research

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Highlights

  • Filling critical theoretical gaps in tourism research

  • Gilles Deleuze offers postdualist, process-oriented ontology of difference.

  • Posthumanist paradigm to understand human-technological world, ethics, and sustainability in tourism research

Section snippets

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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