Heidegger and the Difficulties of a Postmodern Ethics and Politics

White, Stephen K.

doi:10.1177/0090591790018001005

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“…Our findings showed that the Norwegian tourists took responsibility for controlling COVID-19, but as a pragmatic and situational concern. They were law- and norm-abiding individuals, thus, in line with White’s (1990) interpretation of responsibility of modernity. The tourists adhered to the government’s rhetoric of the dugnad , thereby contributing to combating the virus (cf.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…White (1990) argued for a split between two interpretations of responsibility. The first relates to modernity and is ‘a modern-prudential obligation to acquire reliable knowledge and to act to achieve practical ends in some defensible manner’ (p. 80).…”

Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…White’s (1990) second interpretation relates to postmodernism, whereby responsibility for the other is central and more in line with an ex ante responsibility. This moral strand is supported by scholars such as Lévinas et al (1985), Taylor (1991) and Bauman (1991).…”

Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…White (1990) further argued that modern and postmodern interpretations can or should be combined. Responsibility thus lies somewhere in between.…”

Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19?

Heimtun

Viken

2023

Tourist Studies

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COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to the authorities’ measures and refrained from international holidays, thereby taking responsibility for the governmentally enforced dugnad (collective efforts). This temporal change in travel habits, however, was not expected to become the new normal, as warmer, southern destinations were still desired. Culturally embedded neoliberal values of freedom of movement were, for most of these tourists, stronger than the threat of climate crisis. Fatalistically, we conclude that COVID-19 did not have the power to transform their mind-sets regarding responsible tourism futures and free them from neoliberal shackles.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 54%

Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…White (1990) further argued that modern and postmodern interpretations can or should be combined. Responsibility thus lies somewhere in between.…”

Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19?

Heimtun

Viken

2023

Tourist Studies

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“…Every symbol and image used in order to forward the others towards pre-determined thinking or acting concerns the others, either as targets or potential competitors. This is why responsibility to act, concerning language, is as real as responsibility to otherness [43,44]. Within this perspective, my second hypothesis suggests that new hegemonic relations come into life when the reciprocal use of dominative language outdates the communicative one (Hypothesis II) (Figs.…”

Section: Hypotheses Of the Tclmentioning

confidence: 97%