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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... MODERN SUBJECT 141 10 REINTERPRETING LOCAL CULTURE 152 11 TOURISM. EUROPE AND IDENTITY 163 Part IV Consuming nature 12 THE TOURIST GAZE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 173 13 THE MAKING OF THE LAKE DISTRICT 193 14 SOCIAL IDENTITY, LEISURE AND THE ...
... Modern societies are generally viewed as being more reliant on clock-time than are pre-modern societies. Time in modern societies is not principally structured in terms of social activities. Clock-time is central to the organisation of ...
... modern' time consciousness pre-dated industrialisation. Thompson's argument depended upon the classical writings of Marx and Weber. Marx showed that the regulation and exploitation of labour time is the central characteristic of ...
... modern city gives room to the individual and to the peculiarities of their inner and outer development. It is the spatial form of the large city that permits the unique development of individuals who are placed within an exceptionally ...
... modern' patterns of mobility on social life wherever it is to be found (see of course Berman 1983; Frisby 1992a, 1992b). Simmel analyses the fragmentation and diversity of modern life and shows that motion, the diversity of stimuli and ...
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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 |