"Touristisch wohnet der Mensch" : Zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Theorie der mobilen Lebensweisen
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"Touristisch wohnet der Mensch" : Zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Theorie der mobilen Lebensweisen
Journal
Voyage : Jahrbuch für Reise- & Tourismusforschung
ISSN
1433-8009
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2014
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Oui
Volume
10
Pages
186-201
Language
german
Abstract
Interpreting tourism from a cultural studies’ perspective proves difficult a task in late modern societies because
of the embedding of this practice in multiple mobilities. The scientific domain “tourism studies” as well as tourism as a autonomous research object becomes problematic if constructed as fully delineated phenomenon. Yet, tourism is constitutive for a ever greater number of phenomena in late modern societies and is also embedded in multiple mobilities and mobile ways of life. This contribution aims at putting forward a definition of tourism as “relationship to the world” that assigns meaning to specific practices. The “tourist gaze” is the starting point for proposing a relational concept of the “touristic”, but under the condition of abstracting the implied “scopic regime”. Tourism would not be any longer an object, but a relationship to the world, which is mobilised in different situations and practices. Second, because tourists are mobile individuals practising places in a specific way, I propose the expression “dwelling” for what tourists do with space: symbolic and material appropriation of places and mobilities. The concept “dwelling touristically” could allow for a discussion about tourism within cultural studies by focussing on the spatial components.
of the embedding of this practice in multiple mobilities. The scientific domain “tourism studies” as well as tourism as a autonomous research object becomes problematic if constructed as fully delineated phenomenon. Yet, tourism is constitutive for a ever greater number of phenomena in late modern societies and is also embedded in multiple mobilities and mobile ways of life. This contribution aims at putting forward a definition of tourism as “relationship to the world” that assigns meaning to specific practices. The “tourist gaze” is the starting point for proposing a relational concept of the “touristic”, but under the condition of abstracting the implied “scopic regime”. Tourism would not be any longer an object, but a relationship to the world, which is mobilised in different situations and practices. Second, because tourists are mobile individuals practising places in a specific way, I propose the expression “dwelling” for what tourists do with space: symbolic and material appropriation of places and mobilities. The concept “dwelling touristically” could allow for a discussion about tourism within cultural studies by focussing on the spatial components.
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