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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... particular attention is given to the visual character of such consumption and its implications for places and people. The implications for nature and the environment are also explored in depth. Finally, the author explores the changing ...
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... particular social structures. In the first part of this chapter I shall provide relatively brief summaries of some of the early twentieth century writings on time and space. In the second part of this chapter I show what it was in the ...
... particular social pattern. The Khasi, for example, have an eight-day week since they hold a market every eight days. Modern societies are generally viewed as being more reliant on clock-time than are pre-modern societies. Time in modern ...
... It is money which produces a levelling of feeling and attitude. Fourth, in particular the money economy as reflected in modern life generates a concern for precision and punctuality. This is so both 8 CONSUMING PLACES.
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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 |