Mobilité des individus et familiarité construite : des arrangements qui offrent aux touristes des prises pour parcourir le monde

• Main Author: Philippe Violier
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Éditions Touristiques Européennes 2016-12-01
• Series: Mondes du Tourisme
• Subjects: spatial technology; affordance; mediation; otherness
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/1365
• ISSN: 2109-5671; 2492-7503

Runner of the report that the mobility of the individuals comes up against the otherness of the worlds, three steps initiatives are mobilized for understanding how the circulation is possible: the first one emphasizes the spatial capital of the individuals, the second is interested in the spatial technologies which facilitate it, the third, into which the present text becomes integrated, asks the question of the constructed familiarity, or arrangements established by actors to limit punctually the constraint of the diversity which the world brings into conflict with mobility. These tinkering constitute affordances which the individual can face the otherness in an autonomous way. Once presses the theoretical reasons adduced, the article develops a pragmatic approach based on the observation of metro networks in metropolises situated in various worlds (New York, Berlin, Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Shanghai). As a result the received difference of otherness does not correspond to the objective otherness. While the latter places cities according to a continuum of increasing otherness in the order of quotation of these cities, that is New York and Berlin / Saint-Petersburg / Moscow / Shanghai, the otherness perceived by a western tourist using the subway will be rather New York and Berlin / Shanghai / Saint-Petersburg / Moscow. Numerous arrangements return the subway of the easier Chinese metropolis of use than that of the Russian metropolises and especially that of Moscow.