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  • Consuming Placesby JOHN Urry

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 52.95

    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... more...

  • Sociology Beyond Societiesby John Urry

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 61.95

    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... more...

  • Societies beyond Oilby John Urry

    Zed Books 2013; US$ 26.95

    In this groundbreaking book, John Urry shows how the twentieth century created a mirage of unlimited future growth that masked its limits. He considers the nature of an oil-dependent world facing energy descent and what lessons can be learnt from past energy-constrained societies. With no large-scale plan B to energize and mobilize societies, Urry... more...

  • Touring Culturesby Chris Rojek; John Urry

    Routledge 1997; US$ 57.95

    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 debates on space, time and identity. more...

  • Tourism Mobilitiesby Mimi Sheller; John Urry

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 63.95

    Many places around the world are being produced, converted, interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption. This fascinating book analyzes tourist performances such as walking, shopping, sunbathing, photographing, eating and clubbing, and studies why, and indeed how, some places become global centres whilst others don?t. Arranged in four distinct... more...

  • Mobile Technologies of the Cityby Mimi Sheller; John Urry

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95

    Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion and security across many urban contexts. This book... more...

  • Bodies of Natureby Phil Macnaghten; John Urry

    SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 40.00

    This book examines the embodied nature of people's experience in, and of, the modern world. It is therefore part of the deep-seated `turn towards the body', which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades. The book argues that bodies in nature are subject to novel, complex and contradictory opportunities of freedom and... more...

  • MOBILE LIVESby Anthony Elliott; John Urry

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 51.95

    How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21 st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems... more...

  • Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)by Russell Keat; John Urry

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 42.95

    This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science... more...

  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0by John Urry; Jonas Larsen

    SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 51.00

    A fully revised edition of a seminal text from a world class authority in tourism. Each chapter has been significantly updated to include fresh data, examples and critical theory and three entirely new chapters have been added. A modern classic. more...