Sunday 25 May 2014

The Tourist Gaze, John Urry & Jonas Larsen


This book may be of interest.

Some extracts can be viewed here

3rd edition preview
John Urry and Jonas Larsen

“The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!” - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University (more reviews here)

This new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers. ‘The tourist gaze’ remains an agenda setting theory. Packed full of fascinating insights this major new edition intelligently broadens its theoretical and geographical scope to provide an account which responds to various critiques. All chapters have been significantly revised to include up-to-date empirical data, many new case studies and fresh concepts. Three new chapters have been added which explore photography and digitization, embodied performances, risks and alternative futures.

1. Theories
2. Mass Tourism
3. Economies
4. Working under the Gaze
5. Changing Tourist Cultures
6. Places, Buildings and Design
7. Vision and Photography
8. Performances
9. Risks and Futures

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