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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... social groupings, the gay culture of San Francisco being a good example (see Hetherington 1990). It is clear that ... relations. Such relations are increasingly organised on an international basis. This gives a particular role to towns ...
... social relations of production which have generated the requirement for labour-power to be reproduced through forms of collective consumption. In this account the 'spatial' form taken by patterns of urban protest is seen as explicable ...
... social conditions which affect the general disposition to political activism (Pickvance 1985: 39-44). A second ... relations, patriarchy) are realised (see Gregory and Urry 1985; Sayer 1992). Specifically, Massey argues that there are a ...
... social and political effects became the subject of a major research ... relations within a nation-state; that there are large variations in local ... social and political effects, whether these be socialist (inter-war Nelson), anti-black ...
... social institutions is drawn upon within contingent social acts. In order to ... relationship to routinised social practices. Rooms in a house are, for example ... relations out of local involvements. Expert systems bracket time and space ...
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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 |