Travelling down the road to postdisciplinarity? Reflections of a tourism geographer

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-17

  Gill, Alison ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

disciplinarity; postdisciplinarity; tourism geography; transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; PARADIGM SHIFT; TOURISM;

EID: 84857741344     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2011.00400.x     Document Type: Review

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