This week in my Rhetoric of Travel Writing course, I’ve been challenged with new ways of looking at travel, in particular “mapping.” Initially I thought that “mapping” would probably be only about the colorful drawings and illustrations with land masses and water ways, and it can be.
But I also learned that “mapping” can be so much more - - - as in the form of mapping self.
SURVEILLANCE. Such an obtrusive word.
Surveillance can come so many forms. Photo radar. People watching at the mall. Watching a sports event. Or even our military, with UAVs.
In my next blog entry, I’ll share a story about how a gaze mapped out my future. How a “contact zone” in which two “geographically separated people began to establish an ongoing relationship” (Pratt 6).
Come back and visit my story of the “Downtown Bus Station.”