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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... cities. Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England ( 1 969) provides an illuminating urban sociology of 1840s' England. More generally in The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) Marx and Engels describe how fixed, fast ...
... cities, or mining communities more or less anywhere. More generally Gans has questioned the thesis that most city dwellers are isolated, individualised and autonomous (1986). Cities are more diverse than this and some inner-city areas ...
... cities and so on, in ways which conceal and help to perpetuate the non-communion relations actually to be found there. Finally here, it should be noted that much of the existing literature has tended to reproduce not just the ...
... Cities and rural areas differ in their capacity to generate a wide array of Bund-like associations. Some urban areas have particularly facilitated the proliferation of such Bund-like social groupings, the gay culture of San Francisco ...
... Cities have become centres of new kinds of politics because of changes in the social relations of production which have generated the requirement for labour-power to be reproduced through forms of collective consumption. In this account ...
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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 |