The Tourist Gaze (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

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. John Urry addresses the tourist gaze, that is the manner in which the tourist orders and regulates the relationship with the tourist environment, demarcating the unfamiliar and identifying the out of the ordinary The subject of this book would appear to have nothing whatsoever to do with the serious world of medicine and the medical gaze that concerns Foucault.