Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17450100500489189

Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings

Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process.

Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes, as well the social meaning of the practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances and clothes play a crucial role in our lives, but not many of us question exactly how and why we perform so many daily rituals associated with them. Showers, heating, air-conditioning and clothes washing are simply accepted as part of our normal, everyday lives, but clearly this was not always the case. When did the daily shower become de rigueur? What effect has air conditioning had on the siesta at one time an integral part of Mediterranean life and culture? This book interrogates the meaning and supposed normality of these practices and draws disturbing conclusions. There is clear evidence supporting the view that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces. Shove maintains that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption. This shrewd and engrossing analysis shows just how far the social meanings and practices of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have eluded us.

Comfort, cleanliness and conveniencethe social organization ofnormality

Understanding the small business sector

This paper examines the assertion that individuals with seemingly high levels of commitment to the environment at home may also be those engaged in less sustainable leisure and tourism behaviours, including a high dependency on air travel. This potential difference in environmental commitments between different consumption settings is placed within the context of recent policy developments that have seen the rise of segmentation as a commonly applied technique used to understand and encourage pro-environmental behaviours through the notion of ‘sustainable lifestyles’ and social marketing campaigns. Using data derived from a questionnaire of consumers in the UK, three distinctive, empirically-defined ‘lifestyle’ groups are identified, based on the respondents’ environmental behaviours. Significant differences emerged in reported environmental commitments according to their consumption setting. Those with higher levels of commitment in and around the home also tended to be those who flew furthest and most frequently, whilst those with moderate-to-high commitments ‘at home’ often failed to transfer these activities to their holiday environments. The paper concludes by arguing that both academics and policy-makers need to address the role of different consumption settings in which behaviours are undertaken and the ways in which these relate to underlying social practices within these settings.

Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. A case-study of consumers at home and away

Section 1: Framing International Business and Tourism - Governance and Regulation Section 2: The Internationalisation of Tourism Businesses Section 3: The Internationalisation of Tourism: Practices and Processes Section 4: Tourism and Destinations in the Internationalisation of Business

International Business and Tourism : Global Issues, Contemporary Interactions

1. Tourism, Politics and the Forgotten Entanglements of Power Section 1: Power, Performance and Practice 2. The Power of the Tourist Encounter 3. Adventure Tourism: Will to Power? 4. Disability Legislation and the Empowerment of Disabled Tourists in the United Kingdom 5. Tourism, Nation and Power: A Foucauldian Perspective of 'Australia's' Ghan Train Section 2: Power, Property and Resources 6. The Politics of Bed Units: Growth Control in the Resort of Whistler, British Columbia 7. Pedestrian Shopping Streets and Urban Tourism in the Restructuring of the Chinese City 8. Power, Resource Mobilisation and Leisure Conflict on Inland Rivers in England Section 3: Power, Governance and Empowerment 9. Empowerment and Stakeholder Participation in Tourism Destination Communities 10. Prosecuting Power: Tourism, Inter-Cultural Communications and the Tactics of Empowerment 11. Tourism, Governance and the (Mis-)Location of Power 12. Tourism and the Many Faces of Power

Tourism, Power and Space

Tourism has been the subject of considerable academic attention over the last three decades. Recently, there have been notable criticisms over the nature of tourism research and an alleged lack of theorization. Published exchanges have also focused on the contested disciplinary status of tourism. In this paper, we revisit these debates and consider them in light of increasing calls for post-disciplinary modes of investigation. In particular, we emphasize the need to understand tourism as just one form of human movement in a wider spectrum of mobilities. The consequences of pursuing a post-disciplinary approach are discussed. If studies of tourism are determined to reflect contemporary conditions, they should move away from traditional inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches to more flexible forms of knowledge production.

Mobilizing Tourism: A Post-disciplinary Critique

In the past decade, a number of social science disciplines have engaged
in debates of both local social complexity and, by extension, global social
connections. Cultural and media studies, for example, have interrogated
global media pathways in order to tease out representations of culture,
the self, and social practice. Sociologists and anthropologists (although
both would likely object at the conceptual lumping) have sought to trace
social relationships and identities that often span multiple localities (Lee,
2003). Along with scholars in development studies and political studies,
some human geographers have also attempted to trace the influences of
globalisation in the production and consumption of global labour, consumer goods and social practice. Similarly, many migration scholars have
approached the movement of people from a transnational perspective, as
opposed to the more rigid classification of origin-destination models
(King, 2002). Unfortunately, although some criticism of theoretical excess
has recently emerged, ‘Tourism,’ as an established field of academic
enquiry (as opposed to lowercase ‘tourism’ as the phenomenon under
scrutiny), has been conspicuously absent from recent discipline-based
pushes toward understanding the range of mobilities prevalent inmore-or-less globalised environments and has not embraced, at least to
any great extent, similar levels of theory building.

Tim Coles

Papers

Times for (Un)sustainability? Challenges and opportunities for developing behaviour change policy. A case-study of consumers at home and away

International Business and Tourism : Global Issues, Contemporary Interactions

Tourism, Power and Space

Mobilizing Tourism: A Post-disciplinary Critique

Tourism, Mobility, and Global Communities: New Approaches to Theorising Tourism and Tourist Spaces