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  • PERFORMING TOURIST PLACES
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    PERFORMING TOURIST PLACES
    JØRGEN OLE BÆRENHOLDT / MICHAEL HALDRUP / JOHN URRY
    This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through va...

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  • A NEW INDUSTRIAL FUTURE?
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    A NEW INDUSTRIAL FUTURE?
    THOMAS BIRTCHNELL / JOHN URRY
    A New Industrial Future? examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book Birtchnell and Urry examine such a new possible future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing. The locating of 3D printers in homes, offices, stores and workshops would disrupt existing systems and pose novel challenges for incumbents. The book...

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  • MOBILITIES, NETWORKS, GEOGRAPHIES
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    MOBILITIES, NETWORKS, GEOGRAPHIES
    JONAS LARSEN / JOHN URRY
    There have been striking increases in both long-distance travel and in communications through mobile phones, text messaging, emailing and videoconferencing. Such developments in communication, along with a similar increase in physical travel and movement of goods around the globe, reconfigure social networks by disconnecting and reconnecting people in new ways. This original b...

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  • MOBILITIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSPORT AND SOCIETY
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    MOBILITIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSPORT AND SOCIETY
    JOHN URRY
    Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which...

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  • CAPITAL, LABOUR AND THE MIDDLE CLASSES
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    CAPITAL, LABOUR AND THE MIDDLE CLASSES
    JOHN URRY / NICHOLAS ABERCROMBIE
    Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review the literature on the middle class, concentrating particularly on the traditions of Marxist theory and of the more empirical work inspired by Max Weber. They show, however, that this...

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  • REFERENCE GROUPS AND THE THEORY OF REVOLUTION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    REFERENCE GROUPS AND THE THEORY OF REVOLUTION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JOHN URRY
    First published in 1973, this is a reissue of John Urry's important and influential study of the theory of revolution. Part 1 offers a detailed discussion of the concept of the reference group, tracing its development from the symbolic interactionist tradition and then showing how it came to be used in ways which emasculated some of the suppositions of that tradition. Part 2 se...

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  • SOCIOLOGY BEYOND SOCIETIES
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    SOCIOLOGY BEYOND SOCIETIES
    JOHN URRY
    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 physica...

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  • SOCIAL THEORY AS SCIENCE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    SOCIAL THEORY AS SCIENCE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    RUSSELL KEAT / JOHN URRY
    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 with an examination of imp...

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  • MOBILE LIVES
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    MOBILE LIVES
    ANTHONY ELLIOTT / JOHN URRY
    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 21st 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 are transforming everyday, ordinar...

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  • AEROMOBILITIES
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    AEROMOBILITIES
    CWERNER, SAULO / KESSELRING, SVEN / URRY, JOHN
    Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to helicopters, and from movement in airports to software systems, Aeromobilities seeks to e...

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  • MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE CITY
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    MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE CITY
    SHELLER, MIMI / URRY, JOHN
    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 brings together a carefully ...

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  • TOURISM MOBILITIES
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    TOURISM MOBILITIES
    MIMI SHELLER / JOHN URRY
    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 parts, Sheller and Urry consi...

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  • CONSUMING PLACES
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    CONSUMING PLACES
    JOHN URRY
    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...

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  • ECONOMIES OF SIGNS AND SPACE
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    ECONOMIES OF SIGNS AND SPACE
    SCOTT LASH / JOHN URRY
    This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of `society′ and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflex...

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  • THE TOURIST GAZE 3.0
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    THE TOURIST GAZE 3.0
    JOHN URRY / JONAS LARSEN
    "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!" - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University This new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this...

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  • CONTESTED NATURES
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    CONTESTED NATURES
    PHIL MACNAGHTEN / JOHN URRY
    Demonstrating that all notions of nature are inextricably entangled in different forms of social life, the text elaborates the many ways in which the apparently natural world has been produced from within particular social practices. These are analyzed in terms of different senses, different times and the production of distinct spaces, including the local, the national and the ...

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