ANT: A decade of interfering with tourism

•It shows how ANT has sparked productive controversies in the social sciences.•It discusses contributions of actor-network theory to tourism studies.•It sketches out avenues by which ANT offers new ways of interfering with tourism. Ten years ago actor-network theory (ANT) entered this journal. To il...

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Published in:Annals of tourism research 2017-05, Vol.64, p.139-149
Main Authors: van der Duim, René, Ren, Carina, Jóhannesson, Gunnar Thór
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actor-network theory
actor-network theory, oncology, relational materialism
Discovery
Ontology
Relational materialism
Tourism
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Summary:•It shows how ANT has sparked productive controversies in the social sciences.•It discusses contributions of actor-network theory to tourism studies.•It sketches out avenues by which ANT offers new ways of interfering with tourism. Ten years ago actor-network theory (ANT) entered this journal. To illustrate how the relational ontology and sensibilities of ANT lend themselves to particular kinds of research, we first interrogate the main controversies as a way to open up and discuss the main premises of ANT. These debates concern the status and agency of objects and non-humans, ANT’s denial of the explanatory power of social structures, and the political implications of ANT. Second we present ANT’s relevance for tourism studies and discuss what ANT ‘does’ in practice. After summarizing a decade of relations between ANT and tourism, we conclude by tracing three future trajectories of how we have ‘moved away with’ ANT into new areas of discovery.
ISSN:0160-7383
1873-7722
DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2017.03.006