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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... effect the exchange of labour times. Capitalism entails the attempts by the bourgeoisie either to extend the working day or to work labour more intensively, as Marx says: 'man is nothing; he is, at most, the carcase of time' (Marx and ...
... effect that no element is simply present but is changed as new elements are accumulated from the past. In Bergson's analysis time is viewed qualitatively but space as abstract and quantitative. In the critique of the 'spatialised ...
... effects of 'modern' patterns of mobility on social life wherever it is to be found (see of course Berman 1983; Frisby 1992a, 1992b). Simmel analyses the fragmentation and diversity of modern life and shows that motion, the diversity of ...
... effect a new kind of class politics. Thus he argues strongly against efforts to understand the urban in terms of either 'culture'/' way of life' or in terms of a spatial determinism. Cities have become centres of new kinds of politics ...
... effects became the subject of a major research programme in Britain in the 1980s (see Cooke 1989, in general; and Bagguley etal. 1990). One important effect of this emphasis upon spatial differentiation within sociology has been to ...
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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 |