The "I" and the "Other" - A Reading of the Chapter: Seeing and Theming, from the Book The Turist Gaze by John Urry

Abstract

This brief paper aims, without great claims, to be a reflection on the seventh chapter, Seeing and Theming, of the book The Turist Gazeby John Urry. In the first part of the chapter, Seeing and being seen, Urry analyzes the issue of the tourist gaze and how photography, from the nineteenth century, has resulted in new ways of gazing, moving then in Themes and Mallsto examine one of the specific aspects of the tourist gaze, relating it with a series of produced environments, oriented to tourist consumption. Thus, this short essay will be structured in two chapters, which correspond to the first and second part of the seventh chapter of John Urry’s book. After the analysis of these ideas, we will list other theories, of other authors, which could, perhaps, be connected to the subject of this chapter.