Doing Modernity: Studies in Critical Interactionism

Annals ofTourism Research, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 756-779, 1994 Copynght @ 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. AU rights reserved 0160.7383/94 $6.00 + .OO 0160-7383(94)E0008-F TOWARD a Critical Analysis OF TOURISM REPRESENTATIONS Wayne Martin Mellinger University of California-Berkeley, USA Abstract: This paper advances a “critical analysis of tourism representations” through examina- tion of photographic postcards of African Americans from the South during the period 1893 to 1917. Analysis of these photographic images reveals that specific iconographic strategies were employed by postcard photographers to culturally inscribe black bodies with “Otherness.” Analy- sis of the postcard senders’ messages reveals that these texts were often interpreted by tourists as interchangeable images of the mythic Old South or as attempts at humor. These images posi- tioned black subjects in a racist regime of representation...

The British Journal of Sociology 2010 Mobile sociology bjos_1249 347..366 This article seeks to develop a manifesto for a sociology concerned with the diverse mobilities of peoples, objects, images, information, and wastes; and of the complex interdependencies between, and social consequences of, such diverse mobilities. A number of key concepts relevant for such a sociology are elaborated: ‘gamekeeping’, networks, fluids, scapes, flows, complexity and iteration. The article concludes by suggesting that a ‘global civil society’ might constitute the social base of a sociology of mobilities as we move into the twenty-first century. Keywords: Mobility; network; society; scape; flow At the present moment of history the network of social relations spreads over the whole world, without any absolute solution of continuity. This gives rise to the difficulty . . . of defining what is meant by the term ‘society...