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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... 9.2 The shift to post-Fordist consumption 151 11.1 Aesthetic cosmopolitanism 167 12.1 Forms of the tourist gaze 191 13.1 The north and the south 206 vi This book could not have been produced without the enormous. TABLES.
... aesthetic qualities of the English village. It must conform as closely as possible to the prevailing urban view - picturesque, ancient and unchanging . . . [this has led] many newcomers to be bitterly critical of the changes wrought by ...
... aesthetic judgement may be pertinent to its comprehension (see Adler 1989b on travel as 'performed art'; Lash and Urry 1994: Ch. 10). Furthermore, a key aspect of many kinds of travel is that one enters a kind of liminoid space where ...
... aesthetic culture, one which comes to be appreciated in a less detached, formal and distanced manner. Indeed the postmodern can itself be viewed as a post-cultural condition if culture is taken to imply that aesthetic or moral standards ...
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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 |