SOCY 306 Chapter : 306 – Week 7 – The Tourist Gaze.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 306
• Professor: Ryan Martin

Document Summary

Travelling people observe when they travel a new way of saying, prolonged gaze, contemplation, admiration: travelling was part of the well trained eye, observations as a form of pleasure and leisure new technologies were created for seeing and travelling, formation of new markets, commodities postcards seeing allows people to take possession over environments, even from a distance, people are detached from the world but also master the world through seeing stepping back allows for a better view, more abstract than everyday life experience places wait for visual consumption influenced by romanticism landscapes on their own aren"t anything unless they are framed from the gaze reconstruction of urban spaces to permit new ways of seeing and being seen, eg rebuilding paris certain views became signifiers for certain places, eg. seeing the effial tower was significant for paris paris reconstruction of paris to signify love built bridges and walkways to spark curiosity represented love, lovers gaze and others gaze at lovers.