Cultural literacy, cosmopolitanism and tourism research

Title: Cultural literacy, cosmopolitanism and tourism research
Creator: Johnson, Patricia Claudette
Relation: Annals of Tourism Research Vol. 44, Issue 1, p. 255-269
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2013.10.006
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: Cosmopolitanism has been approached from a multitude of perspectives yet it continues to pose theoretical challenges in application. This paper assumes a post-disciplinary approach to critique these writings and analyse the intersections of tourism/cosmopolitanism/worldmaking. Through these means a philosophical platform is built that advances cultural literacy as the defining principle of cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism encompasses the both-and, and has much to do with cosmopolitics, worldview, cultural orientations and compossibilities of tourism populations. Tourism is at the coalface of inter- and intra-cultural exchange and cultural literacy provides an innovative tool to operationalize worldmaking and address the complexities of an increasingly cosmopolitanized world. These ideas constitute an ontological shift in thinking about tourism and its many contexts.
Subject: cosmopolitanism; cultural literacy; compossibility; worldmaking; cosmopolitics; post-disciplinary
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062974
Identifier: uon:17184
Identifier: ISSN:0160-7383
Language: eng
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