Touring Berlin [Elektronische Ressource] : virtual destination, tourist communication and the multiple city / Ignacio Farías

Ignacio Hurtado Farias

Sujets

• Ethnologie

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• Publié par: humboldt-universitat_zu_berlin
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 32
• Langue: Deutsch
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
INAUGURALDISSERTATION
Touring Berlin. Virtual Destination, Tourist
Communication and the Multiple city
Zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde

Philosophische Fakultät I
Ignacio Farías
Dekan: Jürgen Rapp
Gutachter: 1. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba, Humboildt-Universität zu Berlin
2. Prof. Dr. John Urry, Lancaster University

eingereicht: 25. Februar 2008
Datum der Promotion: 26. Juni 2008 Zusammenfassung
Mittels einer Untersuchung von standardisierten Praktiken (Stadtrundgängen und
Stadtrundfahrten) und Dispositiven (Stadtkarten, Reiseführer) fürs „Touren“ von Städten zeigt
diese Dissertation, (1) wie die Stadt Berlin in ein virtuelles Objekt, nämlich, einen
touristischen Zielort, transformiert wird, ( 2) wie diese Transformation nicht nur durch die
Bewegung von Touristen im Raum und das Unterwegssein ermöglicht wird, sondern durch
touristische Kommunikation über die Stadt, und (3) wie diese emergente touristische Stadt in
einer multiplen und polykontexturalen städtischen Öffentlichkeit eingebettet ist, wo sie in
verschiedenen Typen von Beziehung mit naheliegenden Inszenierungen der Stadt eintritt, wie
die der Stadt-Marketing und der kollektiven Erinnerungspolitik. Drei weitere Aspekte sind zu
erwähnen, die den gesamten Text subtil anregen. Die Dissertation stellt eine neue Theorie des
Tourismus als Kommunikationsform, und nicht als Form des Reisens, auf; sie integriert die
Luhmannsche Kommunikationstheorie mit der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie, und sie ist
durchaus empirisch, basierend auf einer jahrlangen ethnographischen Untersuchung (2005-
2006) von Praktiken und Dispositiven des „Tourens“ im zeitgenössischen Berlin.

Schlagwörter:
Tourismus, Stadtforschung, Funktionale Differenzierung, Kommunikationstheorie, Akteur-Netzwerk
Theorie
Abstract
Through the study of standardized practices (walking tours, bus-tours) and devices (maps,
guidebooks) for touring cities, this dissertation shows (1) how the city of Berlin is
transformed into a virtual object, namely, an urban destination, (2) how such transformation is
enabled not simply by tourist movement in space and being away from ‚home‘, but by tourist
communication on the city, and (3) how this emergent tourist city is embedded in a multiple
and polycontextural urban public sphere, in which it enters into different types of relationship
with neighbouring enactments of the city, such as those of city-marketing and collective
memory. Subtly informing the whole text there are three aspects to be mentioned: the
dissertation proposes a new theory of tourism as a form of communication, not of travel; it
integrates Luhmann’s communication theory with actor-network theory; and it is throughout
empirical, based on a year-long ethnographic study (2005-2006) of touring practices and
devices in contemporary Berlin.

2Keywords:
Tourism, Urban Studies, Functional Differentiation, Communication Theory, Actor-Network Theory
3List of contents

Zusammenfassung...................................................................................................................... 2
Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... 2
1. Introduction: Theory, Tourism and Fieldwork in Berlin........................................................ 7
1.1. A Theoretical Challenge for Tourism Studies and Beyond ............................................ 7
1.2. Touring Destinations and the Incompatibility of Leisure and Travel ........................... 12
1.3. Research Design: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Urban Tourism Research ....... 26
1.3.1. Unit of Analysis: The Unobservability of Tourist Communication....................... 27
1.3.2. Research Questions: Tourism in, on and through the City .................................... 30
1.3.3. Research Field: Berlin and the Problem of the Superlative ................................... 32
1.3.4. Reflections on Fieldwork in Berlin ........................................................................ 36
2. Tourism and the Multiple City I: Destinations as Virtual Objects of Tourist Communication
.................................................................................................................................................. 41
2.1. Destinations: A Difficult Ontology............................................................................... 41
2.1.1. Homogenization and Standardization of Urban Locales........................................ 42
2.1.2. Urban Destinations as Multiple Objects................................................................. 45
2.2. Destinations as Virtual Objects of Tourist Communication ......................................... 53
2.2.1. The Mana of Urban Tourism ................................................................................. 53
2.2.2. Origins of the power of destinations ...................................................................... 60
2.2.3. The distinctiveness of destinations......................................................................... 63
3. Assembling Berlin: Orderings of Destination Identity ........................................................ 67
3.1. Reframing Destination Studies: From Images to Orderings ......................................... 67
3.2. Researching Guidebooks: Historical and Methodological Issues................................. 71
3.3. Tourist Berlin: Orderings of Destination Identity......................................................... 74
3.3.1. The Always-Becoming City................................................................................... 75
3.3.2. The Haunted City ................................................................................................... 87
3.3.3. The Berliner Luft.................................................................................................... 98
3.3.4. Green City on the Water....................................................................................... 108
3.4. The Sense of the Distinction Berlin ............................................................................ 116
4. Visualising Berlin: Diagrams of Tourist Space.................................................................. 123
4.1. Reassessing the Geometry of Tourist Space ............................................................... 123
4.2. The Mechanics of Visualicity and the Study of Tourist Maps.................................... 127
4.3. Tracing Distinctions: The Production of Tourist Boundaries and Areas.................... 132
44.4. Placing Objects: Arranging and Assembling the ‘System of Attractions’.................. 139
4.5. Maps as Diagrams of Tourist Space............................................................................ 145
5. Sightseeing in Berlin: Cruising Space, Timing and the Montage of Attractions............... 148
5.1. Topology of Prepositions and Performances of Tourist Space ................................... 148
5.2. Bus-tours’ Mobility and Structured Improvisation ..................................................... 151
5.3. Guiding Practices and the Art of Timing .................................................................... 155
5.4. Bus-Tours Experiences of Movement and Vision ...................................................... 161
5.4.1. Cruise-ship navigational styles............................................................................. 162
5.4.2. Film-trailer Spectatorship..................................................................................... 164
5.5. Destination Space as a Virtual Topology 169
6. Tourism and the Multiple City II: Framing and Overflowing Dynamics of Tourist
Situations................................................................................................................................ 172
6.1. Tourism and Everyday life: a Messy Account............................................................ 172
6.1.1. Tourism and Routine Everyday Life.................................................................... 173
6.1.2. Tourism and the Quest for the Authentic Everyday............................................. 176
6.1.3. Melting Tourism into Everyday life..................................................................... 180
6.2. Overflowed Tourism: Everyday Banality and Totalizing Entanglements .................. 183
6.3. Framing and Overflowing Dynamics of Tourists Situations ...................................... 189
7. Tourist Frames: Technologies, Capacities and Identities................................................... 196
7.1. Touring Technologies ................................................................................................. 196
7.1.1. Hermetic frames and blind spots: the Videobustour ............................................ 198
7.1.2. The overflowed frame: the bus route 100 ............................................................ 204
7.2. Touring Capacities ...................................................................................................... 210
7.3. Touring Identities ..................................................................................