Tourism, stock photography and surveillance: a Foucauldian interpretation
| Autor: | William Feighery |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. 7:161-178 |
| ISSN: | 1747-7654 1476-6825 |
| Popis: | In recent decades, scholars working from a variety of disciplinary, transdisciplinary and adisciplinary perspectives have focused on photographic images as a rich source of research data. Much of the work on photography in tourism studies has been concerned primarily with the analysis of the content of photographic representations. Studies which examine the production and distribution of ‘stock’ photographs in place promotion are less common. The stock photographic collections of Official Tourism Organisations (OTOs) are an aspect of contemporary consumer and visual culture that has, for the most part, been neglected in the literature on visual cultural and consumption in tourism. Yet, it is these institutional procedures which to a large extent determine the content of promotional photographs, as well as how these are made available for consumption. Drawing on the Foucauldian concept of Panopticism (Foucault's central vehicle for discussing the social relations of power, surveillance and related discipli... |
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