ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on insights from Science and Technology Studies and Actor-Network Theory. It argues that tourism research is not only a distinct academic practice undertaken by researchers and guided by scientific principles but rather an entangled and mundane set of practices shaped for and together with those living off and with tourism. It explores the collaborative characteristics of tourism knowledge as it is performed through various ongoing entanglements. The notion of 'making a difference' undoubtedly sits uneasily with classic scholarship devoted to detached science and contemplative thinking. The Smart Tourism practices of the region seemed to predominantly not exist in a purely technical way, to not be about tourism and/or to be undertaken by actors not defining or seeing themselves as part of tourism. As an explicit strategy for addressing the challenges in the Anthropocene, Haraway insists on the need for making kin as the colloquial term for "other-than-conventional biogenetic relatives".
