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- Title
METHODOLOGICAL BRICOLAGE: A JOURNEY ON THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED IN TOURISM STUDIES.
- Authors
O'REGAN, MICHAEL
- Abstract
This article, by exploring an approach to research, argues a case for bricolage as an acceptable approach in tourism research. Tourism researchers thinking about utilizing methodological bricolage as a research approach have little scholarly literature to draw from; therefore, it remains relatively underused and misunderstood as a means of qualitative inquiry. This article presents an account of getting to grips with a multiparadigmatic methodological bricolage as a way of understanding the world of backpacking and its inhabitants, who actively constitute, distinguish, and label themselves as backpackers. It is an approach that delivered a coherent conceptual scaffold, producing a rich, but always partial, understanding of a social world, those who inhabit it, and how they sustain it. It doing so, the research design adds to methodological innovation and diversification in tourism research.
- Subjects
TOURISM research; RESEARCH methodology; QUALITATIVE research; BACKPACKING; PACK transportation
- Publication
Tourism Analysis, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 5, p457
- ISSN
1083-5423
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3727/108354215X14265319207434