People-watching and urban life
Toward a research agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5697286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Jayne (0000-0002-5150-4861, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12674 |
| OpenAlex | W4311948666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 33 |
Taking inspiration from studies of 'seeing-and-being-seen' at the vanguard of intellectual debates regarding urban life since the late-eighteenth century, this paper explores the popular contemporary pastime of people-watching. Drawing on cumulative theoretical, empirical, and methodological resources generated by generations of critical urbanists I highlight the ways in which geographies of people-watching is a topic deserving of sustained academic attention. More specifically, I explore how engagement with rhythm, repetition, habit and events, testimony, and protocols offer fruitful avenues to interrogate everyday practices, mundane conversations and internalized un-spoken dialectics that constitutes people-watching. Concluding remarks signpost how a research agenda focused on people-watching can add value to long-standing and newly emerging urban geographies
Aesthetics · Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Everyday life · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Vanguard · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Urban Planning and Governance
The Ludic City
Staring How We Look
Distinction
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
Urban Theory Beyond the West
The Tourist Gaze 3.0
The Visible
Consuming the city
The Geography of Girl Watching in Postwar Montreal
Make, mend and befriend
Thinking cities through elsewhere
Geographies of friendships
On the Need to Ask How, Exactly, Is Geography “Visual”
Rethinking urban public space
Making Society “Legible”
A world of strangers
The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Follow the Thing
Shame, guilt, and the production of urban space
Living with difference
A sonic geography of voice
Illuminated Atmospheres
Urban encounters with difference
Contact Zones
Motion squared
Sociologies of Everyday Life
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |