| The Tourist Gaze 3.0 Contributor(s): Urry, John (Author), Larsen, Jonas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1849203776 ISBN-13: 9781849203777 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $63.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.481 |
| LCCN: 2010940108 |
| Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers in the new century. The tourist gaze remains an agenda setting theory, incorporating new principles and research. Packed full of fascinating insights this new edition is fresh and contemporary, intelligently broadening its theoretical and geographical scope and providing a nuanced account which responds to various critiques. The book has 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. Innovative and informative, this book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts. |
Contributor Bio(s): Urry, John: - His main research in recent years has been in advocating and developing a new paradigm for the social sciences, the new mobilities paradigmLarsen, Jonas: - Jonas Larsen is Professor in Tourism Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. |
