| dc.description.abstract | The growing body of literature on “accessible tourism” lacks a critical
scholarly debate around its specific language use and nomenclatures. To
fill this gap, this paper provides a first examination of language. Language
provides a unique capability to resist, strengthen and reframe identities of
individuals and groups, yet can also reinforce, weaken and perpetuate
dominant worldviews of disability. A content analysis examined previous
accessible tourism literature with results illustrating that diversity exists
amongst the varying terminologies adopted by scholars. Terms were
employed loosely, inconsistently and interchangeably, euphemistically
with erroneous understandings and nuances. The paper concludes with
critical discussion about the power of researchers to (re) produce
oppression through language that maligns and misrepresents, or to (re)
conceptualise and (re) construct the world we live in with liberating
language that facilitates positive social change. | vi |
