Consuming PlacesRoutledge, 2002 M03 11 - 272 páginas John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and the concept of the 'rural', are examined in relationship to place. The book then considers how places have been transformed by the development of service occupations and industries. Concepts of the service class and post-industrialism are theoretically and empirically discussed. Attention is then devoted to the ways in which places are consumed. Particular attention is devoted to the visual character of such consumption and its implications for place and people. The implications for nature and the environment are also explored in depth. The changing nature of consumption, and the tensions between commodification and collective enthusiasms, are explored in the context of the changing ways in which the countryside is consumed. |
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... second, that most social theories deal unsatisfactorily with the nature of place because they have not known what to do about time, space and nature: and third, that places are partly at least 'consumed' and that the mode of such ...
... Second, attention has also been directed to the economic bases of such cultural transformations, to what elsewhere I have termed the 'economy of signs' (Lash and Urry 1994). This has led many studies to be concerned with the so-called ...
... second part of this chapter I show what it was in the 1970s and 1980s that changed all this, that brought space and time into sociology and social theory more generally. In the last section, analysis will be provided of the 1980s ...
... second, in some cases at least the spatial representations literally mirror the dominant pattern of social organisation. It is a paradox that Max Weber made very few references to space since his brother Alfred Weber was one of the ...
... second, there is the sense of community as a local social system implying a degree of social interconnection of local people and institutions; and third, there is 'communion', a particular kind of human association implying personal ...
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SOME VICES AND VIRTUES | 33 |
SOCIETY SPACE AND LOCALITY | 63 |
RESTRUCTURING THE RURAL | 77 |
CAPITALIST PRODUCTION SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT | 90 |
IS BRITAIN THE FIRSTPOSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY? | 112 |
THE CONSUMPTION OF TOURISM | 129 |
TOURISM TRAVEL AND THE MODERN SUBJECT | 141 |
REINTERPRETING LOCAL CULTURE | 152 |
TOURISM EUROPE AND IDENTITY | 163 |
THE TOURIST GAZE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 173 |
THE MAKING OF THE LAKE DISTRICT | 193 |
SOCIAL IDENTITY LEISURE AND THE COUNTRYSIDE | 211 |