The politics of knowledge as a tourist attraction

Céline Travési (1)

1 CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie

The past ten years have seen an increasing interest in the politics of knowledge production in tourism studies. However, tourists' hosts' politics of knowledge, the ways in which tourists' hosts can use local knowledge as both a tourist attraction and a way to negotiate power relationships, are yet to be explored. This article identifies the need for more analysis of the political uses of cultural knowledge as a tourist attraction, reporting on an ethnographic study of the politics of knowledge unfolded by an Aboriginal group of Western Australia in the context of their tour guiding activities. It will hopefully contribute to a better understanding of the political conditions and potentials for local cultural knowledge (re)production and utilization in tourism. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Mots clés: Bardi Jawi; Australia; Power; knowledge; indigenous; Bardi Jawi

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Céline Travési. The politics of knowledge as a tourist attraction. Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, 66, pp.130-139. ⟨10.1016/j.annals.2017.07.014⟩. ⟨hal-02468169⟩