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Accepted Paper:
Off scenes and the making of cities' tourist-image
Elsa Vivant
(London School of Economics)
Paper short abstract:
Could off cultural places be tourist places by corresponding to the 'tourist gaze' expectations? How do guidebooks mark them as tourist sites?
Paper long abstract:
Could off cultural places (such as artistic squats) be tourist places by corresponding to the 'tourist gaze' expectations? In this paper, I discuss an analysis based on guidebooks, considered as city-image and tourist-image makers. Do off places appear in the guidebooks? Are they considered as places to visit such as museums? How are these places presented by the guidebooks? Which meanings do the guidebooks give to them? Are they a part of a city's imaginary? In other words, are off cultures a part of the city imaginary ? Actually, off scenes are becoming tourist attractions in some cities, such as Berlin, while they are ignored in other places like Paris.
Towards a non-human anthropology of tourism
Session 1