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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... leisure studies, urban and regional studies and cultural studies. John Urry is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. He is the author of numerous books including The Tourist Gaze (1990) and Economies of Signs and Space (1994 ...
... 12 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.
... leisure - which have become crucial to the economic and cultural transformation of different places. Paralleling these innovations have been some changes in the perceived relationship between society and nature. Sociology, as the study ...
... to manage the time of oneself and that of others with the utmost diligence. Not only work but also leisure is often organised in a similar fashion. It is planned, calculative, sub-divided TIME AND SPACE IN THE CONSUMPTION OF PLACE.
... leisure and of Greenwich Mean Time. The last of these, a mathematical fiction signalling the total disembedding of time from social activity, developed so as to facilitate new kinds of social practice, namely mass travel and mobility ...
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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 |