Mapping embodiment across the nexus of gender, tourism, and entrepreneurship

Williams, H.; Pritchard, Katrina; Miller, Maggie C.; Doran, Adele

doi:10.1080/09669582.2023.2216400

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“…Adventure tourism is viewed through colonial narratives in the tourist gaze, which has similar body ideals to theories of embodiment. Thus, these are discriminatory against individual bodies outside of the ideal Western, male, White, non-disabled, and hypermasculine body (Williams et al, 2023). I now turn discussion to the individual tourist.…”

Section: Adventure Tourism Within the Tourist Gazementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the tourist gaze fails to address the complexities of embodiment, the bodies themselves, and is criticised as a predominantly White, male gaze (Bandyopadhyay & Ganguly, 2015;Godfrey et al, 2020;Huang & Lee, 2010). This is due to theories of embodiment being constructed around an ideal body type that does not include disabled bodies (Palmer & Andrews, 2019;Williams et al, 2023). Bodies outside of this ideal, non-White, non-disabled, non-male, are placed under scrutiny through objectification, exotification, or discrimination (Chambers, 2023;Dillette et al, 2019;Robinson, 2020).…”

Section: In Tourism Research and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Theories of embodiment are often constructed around an ideal body type (Palmer & Andrews, 2019). The desired body type is Western, male, White, non-disabled, and hypermasculine, especially in adventure or adventure tourism (Williams et al, 2023). Within the tourist gaze, bodies are often placed under scrutiny through objectification, exotification, or discrimination (Chambers, 2023;Dillette et al, 2019;Robinson, 2020).…”

Section: Embodiment Within the Tourist Gazementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The characteristics of risk and physical engagement considered key aspects of adventure tourism have movable parameters and are often discussed without consideration for disabled people (Buckley, 2012;Pomfret & Branwell, 2016). This limited consideration appears in the theory of the tourist gaze, where possibly restrictive theories of embodiment are used (Williams et al, 2023).…”

Section: Section Summarymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, these observations are rarely examined further (Rickly, 2021). Theories of embodiment are constructed around normative bodies, particularly in adventure tourism where hypermasculine, White, heterosexual, Western bodies are the focus (Palmer & Andrews, 2019;Williams et al, 2023). By using these theories of embodiment, scholars using the tourist gaze as a theory use an able-bodied centred lens (Rickly, 2021).…”

Section: Limited Consideration In the Tourist Gazementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Phenomenological Exploration of How People with Limited Mobilities Experience Adventure Tourism in Virtual Reality

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The aim of this study is to better understand how people with limited mobilities experience adventure tourism using virtual reality (VR). Taking a phenomenological position, my research uses a methodology based in Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the nuances and complexities of disabled experiences using a VR headset. Disabled experiences and disabled voice are consistently limited in tourism research, even when VR is theorised as an assistive tool to access tourism experiences. There are few in-depth studies from a disabled perspective. In response to this, I sought to apply a qualitative phenomenological approach to understand the lived experience of disabled people using VR to access adventure tourism. I use IPA as a guiding framework explore the lived experiences and perspectives of seven women and five men with limited mobilities across South Wales. My contributions to research tourism are threefold. Firstly, my findings demonstrate that participants wished to use VR as a tool for escapism. The wish to escape was influenced by participants’ disabilities and bodies and use of the VR to escape was dictated by the body’s relationship with the technology; thus, VR was deemed inaccessible by participants. Secondly, as a methodological contribution, I demonstrate the value of using IPA for accessing complex and nuanced lived experiences. Furthermore, I question how VR can be beneficial to disabled people, or how it is used in research and practice if it has been considered inaccessible. Thirdly, whilst drawing on relevant literature, I decentre the able body and challenge able-bodied assumptions in tourism research. I centralise disabled voices and the disabled bodies as a point of understanding and a way of perceiving through the body. In doing so, I contribute to an emerging literature addressing the marginalisation of disabled voices from research.

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Section: Adventure Tourism Within the Tourist Gazementioning

confidence: 99%