*Incomplete. For reference only*
Tourist Gaze - John Urry (Postmodernist perspective on tourism)
The Tourist - Dean MacCannell (modern construct)
Urry uses Foucault's concept of the 'clinical gaze' to present his idea of the tourist gaze. Urry states the tourism involves a particular way of seeing that he terms tourist gaze. “And this gaze [the tourist gaze] is as socially organized and systematized as the gaze of the medic.”
For Urry tourism is pleasure activity, and everyday activity is work. he creates a binary between the two.
Against MacCannell’s explanation of tourism as search for authenticity, Urry emphasizes a “difference between one’s normal place of residence/work and the object of the tourist gaze.” He introduces a new kind of tourist -- the post-tourist. The ‘post-tourist’ does not care about authenticity anymore, he/she makes everything extraordinary: “’Post-tourists’ find pleasure in the multiplicity of tourist games. They know that there is no authentic tourist experience, that there are merely a series of games or texts that can be played”
While Urry proposes that the motivation for tourism lies in the desire to leave the ordinary and find the extraordinary. MacCannell argues in a binary between visible and invisible, within which the tourist desires the invisible: “The second gaze is always aware that something is being concealed from it; that there is something missing from every picture, form every look or glance. This is no less true on tour than it is in everyday life. The second gaze knows that seeing is not believing. Some things will remain hidden from it.”
Tourist Gaze - John Urry (Postmodernist perspective on tourism)
The Tourist - Dean MacCannell (modern construct)
Urry uses Foucault's concept of the 'clinical gaze' to present his idea of the tourist gaze. Urry states the tourism involves a particular way of seeing that he terms tourist gaze. “And this gaze [the tourist gaze] is as socially organized and systematized as the gaze of the medic.”
For Urry tourism is pleasure activity, and everyday activity is work. he creates a binary between the two.
Against MacCannell’s explanation of tourism as search for authenticity, Urry emphasizes a “difference between one’s normal place of residence/work and the object of the tourist gaze.” He introduces a new kind of tourist -- the post-tourist. The ‘post-tourist’ does not care about authenticity anymore, he/she makes everything extraordinary: “’Post-tourists’ find pleasure in the multiplicity of tourist games. They know that there is no authentic tourist experience, that there are merely a series of games or texts that can be played”
While Urry proposes that the motivation for tourism lies in the desire to leave the ordinary and find the extraordinary. MacCannell argues in a binary between visible and invisible, within which the tourist desires the invisible: “The second gaze is always aware that something is being concealed from it; that there is something missing from every picture, form every look or glance. This is no less true on tour than it is in everyday life. The second gaze knows that seeing is not believing. Some things will remain hidden from it.”
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