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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... patterns, the pleasures of strolling around and so on. It is the contradictions and ambiguities revealed by these four dimensions of the consumption/place relationship that I shall principally examine in this book (see Sack 1993, for a ...
... 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 societies is not ...
... pattern of social organisation. It is a paradox that Max Weber made very few references to space since his brother Alfred Weber was one of the seminal contributors to the theory of industrial location. Max Weber was relatively critical ...
... 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 the ...
... patterns of life can be found in urban and rural areas. Furthermore, rural life is not simply organised around farm-based communities, where people frequently meet each other, are connected in diverse ways and tend to know each other's ...
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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 |