ABSTRACT
Chapter 2, “Orientations,” frames the locative tour with the broader history of sensing the city and identifies the need for (and value of) a sensory ethnographic approach to locative tourism practices. The chapter begins with a brief history of the senses in the city – including attempts to regulate the unruly sensations of the urban – before situating the locative tour as a particular way of sensing the city. Finally, this chapter reflects on the potential for a (multi-sited) sensory ethnography of locative tourism to illuminate the mediated urban sensorium – with its peculiar rhythms and narrative entanglements – as experienced through the locative app.
