Beyond the frame, beyond critique

Reframing place through more‐than visual participant‐photography

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8360809
AutoresD Kelly (0000-0002-0285-2739, MIT University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen53
Número2
Páginas229-239
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArea (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12611
OpenAlexW3003727172
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas40

There is an abundance of critique in tourism studies, human geography, and the social sciences that takes tourism‐driven depictions of place as its object. Indeed, the problematics of touristic imaginaries tend to fix, obscure, and exclude object‐subjects that more‐or‐less sit familiarly within/out frames of representation. Beyond the frame, beyond critique, there are practices that are less observed – practices that radically challenge the potency of ubiquitous “good life” narratives. This paper draws on visual ethnographic research methods in a frequently photographed but narrowly experienced place. Broome, in the remote Kimberley region of Australia, is an idyllic small urban town with a large tourism economy and operates as a service hub for extractive resource industries inland and offshore. Through the use of picture postcards and participant‐driven photography, this paper presents a narrative of “the beach” that demonstrates the fragility of normative “good life” tropes. By amplifying practices of inhabiting the beach that exceed representational critique and stimulate other ways of authoring place, this paper looks for an activism that resists settling on colonial ways of knowing place

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cognitive reframing · Ethnography · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Object (grammar) · Participant observation · Photography · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Psychology · Social Psychology