Author: John Urry
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sociology, international, library, century, twenty, societies, mobilities, first
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-01-04
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0415190894
ISBN-13: 9780415190893

In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology - the study of society - is outmoded in an increasingly borderless world. If sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the post societal era it must forget the social rigidities of the pre-global order and, instead, switch its focus to the study of both physical and virtual movement. In considering this sociology of mobilities, the book concerns itself with the travels of people, ideas, images, messages, waste products and money across international borders, and the implicatio

Author: John Urry
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: complexity, global
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2003-01-07
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0745628184
ISBN-13: 9780745628189

Global Complexity is a path-breaking book, which examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can help us to analyse global processes. Urry argues that there are major advantages in thinking about global processes in this way. The idea of complexity emphasizes that systems are balanced between order and chaos, that a system does not necessarily move towards equilibrium and that events are both unpredictable and irreversible in their effects. Hence specific events can have unexpected effects, often distant in time and space from where they occurred. This book combines new theory w

Author: JOHN Urry
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sociology, library, international, places, consuming
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-03-28
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0415113113
ISBN-13: 9780415113113

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. C

Author: John Urry
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: mobilities
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0745634184
ISBN-13: 9780745634180

Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people’s lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave-trading to global terrorism, from global warming to teleworking, issues of ’mobility’ are centre-stage upon many academic and policy agendas. These topics and issues are increasingly analysed as part of a concern with ’mobility’ which this wide-ranging book both describes and seeks to develop. John Urry has been at the centre of these

Author: John Urry
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: mobilities
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0745634192
ISBN-13: 9780745634197

Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people’s lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, from airport expansion controversies to the decline of walking, from slave-trading to global terrorism, from global warming to teleworking, issues of ’mobility’ are centre-stage upon many academic and policy agendas. These topics and issues are increasingly analysed as part of a concern with ’mobility’ which this wide-ranging book both describes and seeks to develop.John Urry has been at the centre of these debates

Author: Professor John Urry
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: culture, society, theory, association, gaze, published, tourist
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2002-03-29
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0761973478
ISBN-13: 9780761973478

This Second Edition deepens our understanding of how the tourist gaze orders and regulates the relationship with the tourist environment, demarcating the "other" and identifying the "out-of-the-ordinary." It elucidates the relationship between tourism and embodiment and elaborates on the connections between mobility as a mark of modern and postmodern experience and the attraction of tourism as a lifestyle choice. The result is a book that builds on the proven strengths of the First Edition and revitalizes the argument to address the needs of researchers and students in the new century.

Authors:Chris Rojek, John Urry,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theory, travel, transformations, cultures, touring
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-06-10
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0415111250
ISBN-13: 9780415111256

It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential writers in the field to examine the complex connections between tourism and cultural change and the relevance of tourist experience to current theoretical debates on space, time and identity.