An imaginary without images? Tourists in (and out of) love
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22060656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivier Lazzarotti (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Via Tourism Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2259-924X • E-ISSN: 2259-924X |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/viatourism.9540 |
| OpenAlex | W4385318779 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Six pop songs from the French language repertoire have been selected for the different ways in which they combine tourism and love. This provides the basis for a set of intersecting imaginaries, which in turn informs analysis of the notion of the imaginary per se. Looking beyond images and representations, this imaginary localizes romantic desire, a specific instance of an individual’s relationship with the other. Tourism appears to amplify and sometimes even reveal feelings in a positive or negative way. These songs, which range in focus from order to liberation, are a means of exerting political control over something that, by definition, defies control: the coming together of two human beings
Aesthetics · Art · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |