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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... urban and 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) ...
... urban and rural sociology there was limited recognition of the processes of internal differentiation across space. What was therefore investigated by much twentieth century sociology was a system of independent societies whose social ...
... urban sociology of 1840s' England. More generally in The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) Marx and Engels describe how fixed, fast-frozen relations are swept away, all newly formed relations become antiquated before they can ...
... urban personality is reserved, detached and blase. Second, at the same time the city assures individuals of a distinctive type of personal freedom. Compared with the small-scale community the modern city gives room to the individual and ...
... urban life in terms of the spatial form of the city. His work is more an early examination, paralleling Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto, of the effects of 'modern' patterns of mobility on social life wherever it is to be ...
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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 |