ABSTRACT
The chapter represents the latest contribution in my intellectual ‘underlabouring’ project in critical tourism studies. Underlabouring, first used by Locke, is a term borrowed from philosophy to mean a process that seeks ‘to remove the idols, obstacles or ideologies that stand in the way of, or distort the understanding of, new knowledge to be produced by the sciences’ (Collier, 1994, p. 19).
