Consuming PlacesRoutledge, 11. ožu 2002. - Broj stranica: 272 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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... characteristic of modern machine civilisation was temporal regularity organised via the clock, an invention that was in many ways more important even than the steam engine. Thompson famously argued that an orientation to time becomes ...
... characteristic of capitalism. The exchange of commodities is in effect the exchange of labour times. Capitalism entails the attempts by the bourgeoisie either to extend the working day or to work labour more intensively, as Marx says ...
... characteristics of the urban: collective consumption (as in Castells); local- level political processes; and spatial proximity. Existing formulations are unsatisfactory because they only focus upon one of these. Pickvance further argues ...
... characteristics of modern society. This in turn relates to a further gap in Giddens' account, namely, the importance of the use of time and space for travel. He provides no analysis of why people travel and hence why saving 'time', or ...
... characteristic which social science has thought to be the defining feature of natural time. Social science has operated with an inappropriate conception of time in the natural sciences, an almost non-temporal time invented by certain ...
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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 |