The Choreography of a Mobile World: Tourism Orderings
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A few years ago I suggested that<blockquote>we should begin to view modem tourism not as merely the welling up ofdeep-rooted structural elements of the human condition, something that inprevious epochs surfaced as ritual or perhaps pilgrimage or camivalesque(indeed there are radical discontinuities between these and modern tourism)or based on basic binaries such as ordinary/extraordinary or home/away butas something that had to be made to happen, that belongs to a story ofbecoming; that has quite explicit and often surprising twists and turns andunintended consequences; that once formed and unleashed on the world ittook on a life of its own as an ordering, a way of making the world different,a way of ordering the objects of the world in a new way -and not justhuman objects.</p>(Franklin 2004, italics in original)</blockquote><p>This was deemed by many to be quite a radical departure but in many ways itwas more routine, nothing much more than a shift in perspecti
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A few years ago I suggested that<blockquote>we should begin to view modem tourism not as merely the welling up ofdeep-rooted structural elements of the human condition, something that inprevious epochs surfaced as ritual or perhaps pilgrimage or camivalesque(indeed there are radical discontinuities between these and modern tourism)or based on basic binaries such as ordinary/extraordinary or home/away butas something that had to be made to happen, that belongs to a story ofbecoming; that has quite explicit and often surprising twists and turns andunintended consequences; that once formed and unleashed on the world ittook on a life of its own as an ordering, a way of making the world different,a way of ordering the objects of the world in a new way -and not justhuman objects.</p>(Franklin 2004, italics in original)</blockquote><p>This was deemed by many to be quite a radical departure but in many ways itwas more routine, nothing much more than a shift in perspecti
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