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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... suggests that an historical consciousness became inscribed within social theory such that the 'historical "imagination" seemed to be annihilating the geographical' (1989: 323). And yet in fact this historical imagination, reflected in ...
... suggests that this distinction was less clear cut than Thompson suggested, since some features of a 'modern' time consciousness pre-dated industrialisation. Thompson's argument depended upon the classical writings of Marx and Weber ...
... suggests that there are three important characteristics of the urban: collective consumption (as in Castells); local- level political processes; and spatial proximity. Existing formulations are unsatisfactory because they only focus ...
... suggests, with modernity lived time disappears. It is no longer visible and is replaced by measuring instruments, clocks, which are separate from social space. Time becomes a resource, separate from social space and is consumed ...
... suggesting a greater complexity of development than this simple dichotomy suggests (1990). In the period up to the sixteenth century daily life was task-oriented, the week was not a very important unit of time, and the seasons and ...
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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 |