[Workshop] CTR workshop 2026 “Unlearning research methodology in tourism: Creative intervention”
公開日 2026.05.20
Since 2022, the Center for Tourism Research (CTR) at Wakayama University has been holding workshops for students and young researchers.
In this session, Mr. Daijiro Yamagishi, a junior researcher at the University of Lapland and CTR Visiting Fellow, and Ms. Yurika Shibamoto, a project assistant professor of Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University, will explore how tourism researchers can “unlearn” their established methodologies and develop perspectives and practices that cross disciplinary boundaries. By introducing emerging approaches such as post-qualitative research and art‑based methods, they will also consider more democratic, caring, and engaged ways of conducting research.
This workshop will be organised in person. Japanese and English will be used at this event to make it as inclusive as possible!
Please register and join us for free.
CTR workshop 2026 – session 1
“Unlearning research methodology in tourism: Creative intervention”
Overview
This workshop explores how tourism researchers can unlearn their methodologies in order to intervene in disciplinary boundaries and other divides, for example between science and art or theory and practice. By doing so, participants are invited to welcome different ways of thinking about (and doing of) tourism research. The workshop also briefly highlights emergent research methodologies in the field, including post-qualitative and non-representational approaches, as well as art-based methods. These approaches seek to foster more democratic, engaging, and caring ways of conducting research.
The workshop consists of two parts. In the first half, we will present the theoretical background of methodology, focusing on why and how “unlearning” matters in tourism research. In the second half, we will invite participants to take part in an exercise that encourages them to unlearn and disrupt their methodology or discipline. Through this process, we will search for a “common space” where different approaches can co-exist, share values, and relate to one another.
Date
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Time
4:30~6:00 PM (JST, GMT+9)
Venue
[In Person] Room 107 (Conference room), Bldg. West.1, Wakayama University
Speakers
●Daijiro Yamagishi (Junior Researcher, University of Lapland, Finland / Visiting Fellow, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan)
Daijiro Yamagishi is a junior researcher at the University of Lapland, Finland, and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Tourism Research, Wakayama University. His current research explores educational encounters in/of tourism education. Drawing on posthumanist approaches and relational pedagogy, his work seeks to imagine and investigate alternative, caring, and relational ways of knowing and doing tourism. In his free time, he enjoys cycling in the summer and skiing in the winter. He also swims year-round in the Kemi River in Lapland with colleagues from the Sustainable Natureculture Multispecies Futures research community.
●Yurika Shibamoto (Project Assistant Professor, Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University, Japan)
Yurika Shibamoto is a project assistant professor in the Faculty of Tourism at Wakayama University. Using art-based research methods, she explores how tourism students experience shifts in their values and explores the roles tourism education can play beyond workforce development. In addition, her travel writing pieces from the ongoing art-based research project Travel Writing as Knowing has been published in Kankōgaku (Tourism Studies).
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