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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... cultural studies. John Urry is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. He is the author of numerous books including The Tourist Gaze (1990) and Economies of Signs and Space (1994, with Scott Lash). This One XG2Y-4ED-47R4 ...
... CULTURE 152 11 TOURISM. EUROPE AND IDENTITY 163 Part IV Consuming nature 12 THE TOURIST GAZE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 173 13 THE MAKING OF THE LAKE DISTRICT 193 14 SOCIAL IDENTITY, LEISURE AND THE COUNTRYSIDE 211 Bibliography 230 Index 249 ...
... Cultural Values, the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and the Faculty of Social Sciences. But it has also ... culture and to have made the Department an unusually creative kind of place. This book is about some other makings ...
... cultural theories bear upon the explanation of place in one way or another. However, such theories have not begun to explain the diversities of place, and this is because they have not engaged with the sociologies of time and space, the ...
... culture came also to be seen as central to the structuring and experience of place. In particular I will concern myself with the consumption of place, especially visually, and I will endeavour to link some notions in the analysis of the ...
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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 |