Dis/ability in nature-based tourism: a poststructuralist perspective
从后结构主义视角，结合皮划艇体验者的实证，批判自然旅游研究中残障/能力的二元对立，呼吁反思语言和权力对残障的建构，以实现真正包容的旅游。
People with impairments face exclusion from full participation in nature-based tourism. However, few tourism scholars have linked issues of marginalization and social justice to dis/ability. We draw on a poststructuralist perspective, critical disability studies, and empirical insights from sea-kayakers to examine the material-discursive construction of dis/ability in contemporary scholarship and practice. The findings scrutinize the power of language and dominant concepts in perpetuating a dichotomous understanding of dis/ability, often associated with implicit, normative, and ableist convictions about the human body. In contrast, our empirical insights contest the static, categorical representations of dis/ability inherently linked to impairment. We also question whether benevolent social and ethical initiatives can meaningfully comprehend matters of dis/ability and advance inclusion without deeper onto-epistemological engagement into discursive, relational, and embodied understandings of dis/ability in nature-based tourism research and practice. A humble, reflexive contention with bodily diversity – including challenging one’s own understanding of dis/ability – is foundational for achieving the ethical imperative of a universally accessible nature-based tourism.