The novel conceptual and theoretical developments in the field, be-
yond the discourses of authenticity and the tourist gaze, are closely re-
lated to a broader meta-theoretical re-orientation in contemporary
sociology and philosophy, which in turn reflects some of the wider late
modern social trends discussed above. Most significant for present pur-
poses is, first, a shift from a synchronic to a diachronic perspective,
involving a change of emphasis from permanence to flux, from being
to doing, from structure to agency, from sedimented social patterns to
the process of their emergence, and from a focus on the more stable
fixtures of social life to the mobilities linking them; and second, a
post-modern tendency to stress the de-differentiation between social
domains, the break-down of conventional binary concepts, the inter-
penetration between formerly opposite categories, and the blurring
of the border between reality and virtuality. We shall here discuss three
important inter-related theoretical developments sharing this perspec-
tive, the mobilities ‘‘paradigm’’, the performativity approach and actor-
network theory (ANT).
The novel conceptual and theoretical developments in the field, be-
yond the discourses of authenticity and the tourist gaze, are closely re-
lated to a broader meta-theoretical re-orientation in contemporary
sociology and philosophy, which in turn reflects some of the wider late
modern social trends discussed above. Most significant for present pur-
poses is, first, a shift from a synchronic to a diachronic perspective,
involving a change of emphasis from permanence to flux, from being
to doing, from structure to agency, from sedimented social patterns to
the process of their emergence, and from a focus on the more stable
fixtures of social life to the mobilities linking them; and second, a
post-modern tendency to stress the de-differentiation between social
domains, the break-down of conventional binary concepts, the inter-
penetration between formerly opposite categories, and the blurring
of the border between reality and virtuality. We shall here discuss three
important inter-related theoretical developments sharing this perspec-
tive, the mobilities ‘‘paradigm’’, the performativity approach and actor-
network theory (ANT).
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