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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... Forms that only humans have a concept of time and that time in human societies is abstract and impersonal and not ... form of 'week' this may consist of anything from three to sixteen days (Colson 1926). In many societies such divisions ...
... form of production, with what Marx calls 'denser' forms of work as compared with the more 'porous' longer day, that led to the staggering increases in productivity that have mostly characterised capitalist industry since the mid ...
... forms of solidarity: mechanical (based on likeness or similarity) and organic (based on difference and complementarity). It is the growth in the division of labour, of dramatically increased specialisation, that brings about transition ...
... Forms Durkheim also presents a social theory of space (1968). This has two parts: first, since everybody in a given society represents space in the same way, this implies that the cause of such notions is social; and second, in some ...
... form of the city. His work is more an early examination, paralleling Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, of the effects of 'modern' patterns of mobility on social life wherever ... forms of TIME AND SPACE IN THE CONSUMPTION OF PLACE.
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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 |