{"title":"People-watching and urban life: Toward a research agenda","authors":"Mark Jayne","doi":"10.1111/gec3.12674","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Taking inspiration from studies of ‘seeing-and-being-seen’ at the vanguard of intellectual debates regarding urban life since the late-eighteenth century, this paper explores the popular contemporary pastime of people-watching. Drawing on cumulative theoretical, empirical, and methodological resources generated by generations of critical urbanists I highlight the ways in which geographies of people-watching is a topic deserving of sustained academic attention. More specifically, I explore how engagement with rhythm, repetition, habit and events, testimony, and protocols offer fruitful avenues to interrogate everyday practices, mundane conversations and internalized un-spoken dialectics that constitutes people-watching. Concluding remarks signpost how a research agenda focused on people-watching can add value to long-standing and newly emerging urban geographies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51411,"journal":{"name":"Geography Compass","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Geography Compass","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gec3.12674","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Taking inspiration from studies of ‘seeing-and-being-seen’ at the vanguard of intellectual debates regarding urban life since the late-eighteenth century, this paper explores the popular contemporary pastime of people-watching. Drawing on cumulative theoretical, empirical, and methodological resources generated by generations of critical urbanists I highlight the ways in which geographies of people-watching is a topic deserving of sustained academic attention. More specifically, I explore how engagement with rhythm, repetition, habit and events, testimony, and protocols offer fruitful avenues to interrogate everyday practices, mundane conversations and internalized un-spoken dialectics that constitutes people-watching. Concluding remarks signpost how a research agenda focused on people-watching can add value to long-standing and newly emerging urban geographies.
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Unique in its range, Geography Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed surveys of current research from across the entire discipline. Geography Compass publishes state-of-the-art reviews, supported by a comprehensive bibliography and accessible to an international readership. Geography Compass is aimed at senior undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, and will provide a unique reference tool for researching essays, preparing lectures, writing a research proposal, or just keeping up with new developments in a specific area of interest.
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