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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... sense of sight; and the possibility of changing locations and the consequences especially of the arrival of the 'stranger'. Overall Simmel tends to see space as becoming less important as social organisation is detached from space. In ...
... sense that the money economy makes people more calculating about their activities and relationships; and in the specific sense that people have to schedule activities in precise ways and that there needs to be accurate time-keeping ...
... senses of this concept (see also Savage and Warde 1993: 104). First, there is its use in a simply topographical sense, such as to refer to the boundaries of a particular settlement: second, there is the sense of community as a local ...
... sense concepts such as town, city, community, the urban and so on. Castells argued that such an object should be developed and this would be based on a distinctive 'structuralist' analysis of the unfolding contradictions of capitalist ...
... sense of deprivation. Thus I have suggested that four sets of writings consecrated the temporal and spatial turns in the later 1970s and early 1980s: these can be summarised in terms of the concepts of 'collective consumption' and the ...
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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 |