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The tourist gaze. Leisure and travel in contemporary societies
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ISBN: 080398183X 0803981821 9780803981829 9780803981836 Year: 1990 Publisher: London : Sage Publications,

Sociology beyond societies
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ISBN: 9786610354269 0203190718 1280354267 0203021614 9780203190715 9780203021613 661035426X 9780415190886 0415190886 9780415190893 0415190894 0203184262 9780203184264 0415190886 0415190894 9781280354267 9781134655403 9781134655441 9781134655458 1134655444 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Do societies still exist? How should sociology adapt after globalization? This book extends the recent debate about globalisation from the sociological perspective.

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Sociology --- Philosophy.


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Societies beyond oil
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ISBN: 1780321724 1780321716 1283924218 1780321708 9781780321707 9781780321714 9781780321691 1780321694 9787803216845 9781780321684 7803216846 1780321686 1350222658 Year: 2013 Publisher: London Zed Books

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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 learned from past energy-constrained societies. With no large-scale plan B to energize and mobilize societies, Urry assesses the likelihood of some very different futures for this century.


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The tourist gaze 3.0.
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ISBN: 9781849203760 9781849203777 1849203776 1849203768 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Sage

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"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 so making this very successful book even more relevant for tourism students, researchers and designers in the new century. The tourist gaze remains an agenda setting theory; here it incorporates new principles and research. Packed full of fascinating insights this major new edition is fresh and contemporary, intelligently broadening its theoretical and geographical scope and providing a nuanced account which responds to various critiques. All chapters have been significantly revised to include up-to-date empirical data, many new case studies and fresh concepts. Three new chapters have been added which explore: photography and digitization, embodied performances, risks and alternative futures. Innovative and informative this book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, economic regeneration, heritage and the arts."--Publisher's description.

Contested natures
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ISBN: 0761953132 1283880601 1848609310 0585338507 0761953124 9781848609310 9781446217337 1446217337 9780761953128 9780761953135 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications,

Tourism mobilities
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ISBN: 1134302657 1280078715 0203340337 9780203340332 9786610078714 6610078718 9780415338783 0415338786 9780415338790 0415338794 0415338794 0415338786 9781134302659 9781134302604 1134302606 9781134302642 1134302649 9781280078712 Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York

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This book shows how a diverse array of places around the world are being produced and made fit for tourist consumption. It analyzes tourist performances such as eating, shopping, waling, photographing and clubbing.

Touring cultures : transformations of travel and theory
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ISBN: 9780203427736 9781134833696 9781134833733 9781134833740 9780415111249 9780415111256 Year: 1997 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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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.


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Social theory as science
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ISBN: 1136839232 1283242117 1136839240 9786613242112 020383285X 9780203832851 9780415608770 0415608775 9780415608787 0415608783 Year: 2011 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge,

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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 important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.

Bodies of nature
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ISBN: 9786612559938 0857022741 1282559931 1857022742 9781857022742 9780857022745 9781446221266 1446221261 6612559934 9781282559936 0761973354 9780761973355 Year: 2001 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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This text examines the nature of people's experience in, and of the modern world. This is part of the deep-seated 'turn towards the body', which has been such a pronounced feature of sociology in the last two decades.

Consuming places
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ISBN: 0415113113 0415113105 113482968X 0203296400 1280354755 0203202929 9780203296400 9780203202920 9781134829637 9781134829675 9781134829682 9780415113106 9780415113113 1134829671 Year: 1995 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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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 pos

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