Pedestrian Art the Tourist Gait as Tactic and Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3087967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch (Åbo Akademi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnologia Europaea (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0425-4597 • E-ISSN: 1604-3030 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.16995/ee.1066 |
| OpenAlex | W2523483484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Our walking as tourists is in many respects different from our “non-tourist” or everyday walking. Building on John Urry’s well-known concept of the “tourist gaze”, I suggest the coinage of the “tourist gait” for describing a type of walking characterized, among other things, by a heightened awareness of sensory impressions and an active involvement with one’s surroundings. In this article, I explore how the tourist gait can be employed as a tactic for claiming and experiencing space in our home environs. By comparing tourist gait practices with the phenomenon of flânerie, the performance element contained in everyday pedestrianism emerges. Quotidian walking can demonstrate great creativity and is definitively much more than just a means of transportation
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Gait · Gaze · Geography · Pedestrian · Phenomenon · Physical medicine and rehabilitation · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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| Citations per year | 0.55 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |