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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... important in this is the provision of various kinds of consumer services for both visitors and locals. Third, places can be literally consumed; what people take to be significant about a place (industry, history, buildings, literature ...
... important senses timed. It has also been argued that this academic neglect was more marked in the case of space than time. Soja notes the paradox that in the 30 or 40 years around the turn of the twentieth century there was a series of ...
... important even than the steam engine. Thompson famously argued that an orientation to time becomes the crucial characteristic of industrial capitalist societies (1967). People were viewed as having shifted from an orientation to task to ...
... important in preventing continuous extensions of the working day and heralded the shift from the production of absolute surplus-value to relative surplus-value production. And it is this form of production, with what Marx calls 'denser ...
... important classical contributor to the sociology of space is Simmel. His classical paper on the 'metropolis' should be located within the context of his more general writings on space (see Levine 1971; Frisby 1992a, 1992b). He analysed ...
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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 |