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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... increases in productivity that have mostly characterised capitalist industry since the mid- nineteenth century. However, what Marx did not pursue further is how this dominance of clock- time transforms people's subjectivities. Various ...
... increased specialisation, that brings about transition from the former to the latter. This heightened division of labour results from increases in material and moral density. The former involves increases in the density of population in ...
... increasing manufacturing employment in some newly industrialising countries, albeit with wage rates, conditions of work and trade union organisation far inferior to those experienced by First World 14 CONSUMING PLACES.
... increasing use of public clocks and bells; the growth of schooling for the upper and middle classes where activities began to be timetabled; the efforts by Puritans to organise work on a weekly basis; the increasing development of a ...
... increased general employment of written signs to indicate routes, location, leisure facilities, tourist sites and so on (see Lash and Urry 1994: Ch. 9, on modernity and travel). The second area of theoretical debate has concerned 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 |