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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... nature and the environment are also explored in depth. Finally, the author explores the changing nature of consumption and the tensions between commodification and collective enthusiasms in the context of the changing ways in which the ...
... nature 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.
... natural and built environments. I thus seek to establish three arguments in this book: first, that the understanding of place ... nature: and third, that places are partly at least 'consumed' and that the mode of such consumption remains ...
... nature. Sociology, as the study of society, was premised upon the radical distinction between society and nature. This reflected the transformation of nature and its conceptualisation as a realm of unfreedom to be tamed or mastered by ...
... natural but social. Time is an objectively given social category of thought produced within societies and which therefore varies as between societies. A similar emphasis upon the qualitative nature of social time was developed in ...
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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 |