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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... objects and of the natural and built environments. I thus seek to establish three arguments in this book: first, that the understanding of place is a complex theoretical and empirical task requiring a range of novel techniques and ...
... object' (1977, 1978). He argued that urban sociology (and by implication rural sociology) did not possess such a theoretical object; there was a wide variety of merely common-sense concepts such as town, city, community, the urban and ...
... object' for urban sociology, namely 'collective consumption', then seeks to use this to explain particular kinds of spatially varied politics. He argues that these forms of collective consumption cannot be provided unproblematically ...
... objects. First, only humans live their lives in awareness of their own finitude, something reinforced by seeing the death of others and how the dead make their influence felt upon the practices of the living. Second, the human agent is ...
... object and nature and culture). Most of what social scientists have seen as specifically human is in fact generalised throughout nature. The one aspect which is not generalised through nature, clock-time, is paradoxically 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 |