ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses how critical inquiries in tourism may proceed in collaborative ways by engaging with the relations between facts and values in research anew. It discusses the different ways of making tourism research matter. The book explores the roles of the researcher and diverse fieldwork practices. It also discusses the different ways to engage with the architecture of a series of wind shelters in northeast Norway. The book examines the controversy unfolding around large public aquaria and the keeping of large marine life with a focus on how captive marine animals are interfering in it, what she refers to as the 'blackfish effect'. Co-creation has become a buzzword in many social science disciplines and business studies as well as in the field of tourism studies.
