The course reviews central theoretical debates and research in the field and also introduces students to interdisciplinary methods to analyse different media of memory as these media are integrated in a range of social practices, discourses and institutions. In this module historical and contemporary changes in the nature of tourism, travel and leisure are examined through the prism of the gaze . A number of different tourist gazes are elaborated and their respective implications for past and present tourism developments are spelled out. The intersection of virtuality and the other senses are particularly highlighted. In this course, we focus, instead, on how photos and films come to be taken as matters of fact.
Students also conduct individual research projects towards a dissertation.