Tourist Photography and the Reverse Gaze

Abstract

Original citation:Gillespie, Alex (2006) Tourist photography and the reverse gaze. Ethos, 34 (3).

Position Exchange Theory: A socio-material basis for discursive and psychological positioning

“…People cannot be defined by their social position, because people move between social positions (Gillespie, Howarth, & Cornish, 2012). Tourists are, in a sense, not tourists because they are not tourists most of the time (Gillespie, 2006). Equally, when people (previously children) become parents, they do not forget being non-parents; rather they see themselves through the lens of how they, before having children, saw other people with children (Smith, 1999).…”

The Elementary Forms of Risk: The Mobility Immobilized

“…In his view, the sightseeing corresponds with a social structure which is associated to economic production. Other more subtle critique studies focused on the idea tourists are the only one who can gaze others, even sometimes tourists become in objects of others (Gillespie 2006;Germann Molz, 2014). In other case, tourism appeals to exploit not only the sight, but also other senses (Dann & Jacobsen, 2003).…”

Sensitizing Questions: A Method to Facilitate Analyzing the Meaning of an Utterance

“…[T]he speaker monitors what he is saying in accordance with what he assumes to be the listener's outlook and background information" (Rommetveit, 1983, p. 12). But, of course, the speaker does not know the actual perspective of the other, and thus speaks on the basis of assumptions (Gillespie, 2006 Illustration: The wife's utterance 'I have to go to work' possibly assumes that the husband feels unable to cope and that he wants her help. If it is said in an apologetic tone it might anticipate an accusation of skirting childcare responsibilities.…”