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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... aspects. 2. Consumer behavior. 3. Tourist trade - Social aspects. I. Title. II. Series. HC79.C6U77 1994 306.3-dc20 94-28911 CIP ISBN 0-41 5-1 1 3 10-5 (hbk) ISBN 0-415-1 13 I 1-3 (pbk) List of tables vi Preface vii 1 TIME AND SPACE.
... aspects of urban and rural sociology there was limited recognition of the processes of internal differentiation across space. What was therefore investigated by much twentieth century sociology was a system of independent societies ...
... aspect of the 1970s critique developed the last point in detail. While sociology had organised its understanding of space ... aspects besides that of region including distance, movement, proximity, specificity, perception, symbolism and ...
... aspect of many kinds of travel is that one enters a kind of liminoid space where some of the rules and restrictions of routine life are relaxed and replaced by different norms of behaviour, in particular those appropriate to being in ...
... aspect which is not generalised through nature, clock-time, is paradoxically the characteristic which social science has thought to be the defining feature of natural time. Social science has operated with an inappropriate conception of ...
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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 |