The fishes strike back! A temporal-material-discursive analysis of a defunct aquarium
Chin‐Ee Ong & Osten Mah
What the paper says
Adopting an actor-network perspective, this article conceptualises a temporal-material-discursive framing for the interrogation of the performances of tourism, time, and urbanity of a popular but now defunct aquarium, the Van Kleef Aquarium, in Singapore. A temporal-material-discursive framing, guided by Actor-Network Theory, captures how tourism attractions interact with time, urbanity, and tourism between material/physical/tangible and immaterial/discourse/intangible. Such a framing facilitates the examination of the discursive and material aspects of a tourism object, site, and place beyond the site’s period of operation and material existence. It also allows one to trace the entire web of performativities as they unfold across space and time and between seemingly unrelated heterogeneous elements in societies. This paper illustrates the utility of such a framing for multiple and heterogeneous understandings of tourism sites. In particular, such temporal-material-discursive framing highlights the ways in which materiality and the discursive interact and how the discursive facilitates the enduring presence of the site in its post-materiality.
4 citations
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.37 × 0.4 = 0.15 |
| M · momentum | 0.60 × 0.15 = 0.09 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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