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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... INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY'? 112 Part III Consumption, place and identity 8 THE CONSUMPTION OF TOURISM 129 9 TOURISM, TRAVEL AND THE MODERN SUBJECT 141 10 REINTERPRETING LOCAL CULTURE 152 11 TOURISM. EUROPE AND IDENTITY 163 Part IV Consuming ...
... 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 an orientation to time CONSUMING PLACES.
... industrial power, Britain, factory hour legislation, the intervention of the state, was particularly important in ... industry since the mid- nineteenth century. However, what Marx did not pursue further is how this dominance of clock ...
... industrial towns and cities. Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England ( 1 969) provides an illuminating ... industry and population across time and space. Some similar processes are analysed by Durkheim although the ...
... industrial location. Max Weber was relatively critical of attempts to use spatial notions in his analysis of the city. He rejected analysis in terms of size and density and mainly concentrated on how the emergence of the medieval city ...
Contenido
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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 |