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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... regional studies and cultural studies. John Urry is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. He is the author of numerous books including The Tourist Gaze (1990) and Economies of Signs and Space (1994, with Scott Lash). This One ...
... regional markets; masses of labourers are crowded into factories so concentrating the proletariat and producing a class-for-itself; and the development of trade unionism is assisted by the improved transportation and communication that ...
... regional economies begin to dissolve as more diverse economic and social structures emerge at the local level. On this account a particular locality is to be seen as the outcome of a unique set of 'layers' of restructuring dependent ...
... regional variation has led analysts to rethink social classes through this prism of space (later gender and ethnicity were subject to similar analyses). Thus it has been argued that there are international determinants of the social ...
... Regional Research ; Antipode ; Environment and Planning, especially D: Society and Space; Theory, Culture and Society; Association for Social Studies of Time; Time and Society; Ecumene. A Journal of Environment, Culture, Meaning. TIME ...
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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 |