Tourism, stock photography and surveillance : A Foucauldian interpretation

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 161-178

  Feighery, William ^a  

^a Independent Consultant   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Editorial gaze(s); Panopticism; Photography; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008843415     PISSN: 14766825     EISSN: 17477654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14766820903259485     Document Type: Article

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