TRACING PLACE, LOCATING SELF: EMBODIMENT AND REMEDIATION IN/OF TOURIST SPACES

摘要

Tourists' encounters with/in places, while powerfully represented and organized by visual imagery, are also experienced through material exchange, social interaction and physical movement. We offer a visual ethnography of the embodied, re/mediating inter/actions of tourists in a range of different sites. Our images are organized into five compositional themes or narratives: (1) self-locational rituals and spectacles; (2) tactile engagements with place; (3) digital remediation of embodied actions; (4) scaling the 'Top of Europe'; (5) the fleeting inscription of permanence. It is through their ways of seeing the world that tourists become -viewing subjects and through their bodies that they become doing subjects. In both cases, their viewing and their doing produce tourists as knowing subjects, with a sense of the world as attainable and conquerable.