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The Tourist Gaze

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SAGE Publications, Mar 29, 2002 - Education - 183 pages

This Second Edition deepens our understanding of how the tourist gaze orders and regulates the relationship with the tourist environment, demarcating the "other" and identifying the "out-of-the-ordinary." It elucidates the relationship between tourism and embodiment and elaborates on the connections between mobility as a mark of modern and postmodern experience and the attraction of tourism as a lifestyle choice.

The result is a book that builds on the proven strengths of the First Edition and revitalizes the argument to address the needs of researchers and students in the new century. 

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Review: The Tourist Gaze: Leisure And Travel In Contemporary Societies

User Review  - Tonia - Goodreads

A tourism classic for any student of tourism. Urry's book about the 'tourist gaze', how it all came to be, and what it means to the industry is a seminal work and is continues to be quoted in current ... Read full review

Review: The Tourist Gaze: Leisure And Travel In Contemporary Societies

User Review  - Ellen - Goodreads

In Michel Foucault's sense of the word “gaze,” knowledge is paramount. The gazer—all-seeing, all-knowing—quickly penetrates depths and layers to perceive a subject's essence. In the last paragraph ... Read full review

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JSTOR: The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies
The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Con- temporary Societies. JOHN URRY. Newbury Park, CA, and London: Sage Publications, 1990. ix + 176 pp., ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0094-0496(199411)21%3A4%3C940%3ATTGLAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1

The tourist gaze: contrasting constructed geographies - Research ...
There are clear analogies between academic vision and the tourist gaze, ... Urry, J. (1990) The tourist gaze: leisure and travel in contemporary societies ...
www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/ geography/ undergraduate/ fieldwork/ crete/ restourist.htm

citeulike: The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary ...
In The Tourist Gaze John Urry examines the concept of tourism from a sociological perspective, demonstrating that tourism is a unique and central element in ...
www.citeulike.org/ user/ sammells/ article/ 1790469

Globalising the Tourist Gaze(1)
In 1990 when I first published The Tourist Gaze it was much less clear just how ... Significantly for the ‘tourist gaze’ an array of developments are taking ...
www.lancs.ac.uk/ fass/ sociology/ papers/ urry-globalising-the-tourist-gaze.pdf

Politics and Culture
The most wide ranging is John Urry's The Tourist Gaze, a substantially ... According to Urry, there are aspects of the tourist gaze that prefigure the ...
aspen.conncoll.edu/ politicsandculture/ page.cfm?key=217

Urry
The Tourist Gaze John Urry Rosalyn Kahn Throughout the semester we have read a ... Similarly, the background reading of John Urry's book THE TOURIST GAZE ...
www.csun.edu/ CommunicationStudies/ class/ 632/ 97s/ rept/ 970421.kahn.html

Marcia Horton / Seattle Central Community College
“This book … is about how in different societies and especially within different social groups in diverse historical periods the tourist gaze has changed ...
www.seattlecolleges.com/ international/ documents/ Horton_Tourist_Gaze.doc

The construction of the Tourist Gaze. How industrial was post-war ...
the ‘tourist gaze’, about the role of seeing, of visual perception. Following the English sociologist. John Urry, the gaze is the most important tourist ...
eh.net/ XIIICongress/ cd/ papers/ 4Pagenstecher392.pdf

The Tourist Gaze "Revisited" -- URRY 36 (2): 172 -- American ...
The tourist gaze and the "environment."Theory, Culture and Society, 9, 1-26. ... Beyond the tourist gaze?: Cultural learning on an American 'semester ...
abs.sagepub.com/ cgi/ content/ refs/ 36/ 2/ 172

The Tourist Gaze: Towards Contextualised Virtual Environments
Recalling Foucault’s medical gaze, Urry notes that the tourist gaze is ‘directed ... Returning to the tourist gaze, Urry details nine different aspects (his ...
www.benogo.dk/ publications/ NUTheTouristGaze.pdf

About the author (2002)

His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigm

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TitleThe Tourist Gaze
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Theory, culture and society
AuthorJohn Urry
Edition2, illustrated, reprint
PublisherSAGE Publications, 2002
ISBN0761973478, 9780761973478
Length183 pages
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