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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... environment? 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 ...
... 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 9.1 Capitalism, tourism and travel 147 9.2 The shift to. CONTENTS.
... Environmental Change and the Faculty of Social Sciences. But it has also resulted from the tremendous range of more informal discussions that have occurred in and around the Lancaster Sociology Department. Such discussions in cafes ...
... environment, and the inter- dependencies between the consumption of material objects and of the natural and built environments. I thus seek to establish three arguments in this book: first, that the understanding of place is a complex ...
... environmental movement in particular has transformed our comprehension of nature, which in many recent formulations is to be regarded as embracing both society and the physical environment, what can be characterised as an 'integral ...
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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 |