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What is the Future?

What is the Future?

John Urry

The future is rarely a simple extrapolation from the present. In this important book, John Urry seeks to capture the many efforts that have been made to anticipate, visualize and elaborate the future.
Climate Change and Society

Climate Change and Society

John Urry

Kathleen Franz, Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), p. 10; Nigel Thrift, Non- Representational Theory (London: Routledge, 2008), p. 40; Kingsley Dennis and John Urry, ...
Bodies of Nature

Bodies of Nature

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Phil Macnaghten, John Urry. UI'G " Bodiéé offiN'éi; edited by Phil Macnaghten & John Urry Bodies of Nature edited by Phil Macnaghten John Urry ...
Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First ...

Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First ...

John Urry

Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century John Urry. Chapter. 6. Dwellings. We are in the epoch of simultaneity, the epoch of near and far, of the side by side, of the dispersed. (Michel Foucault 1986: 22) Dwellings and communities I have used the ...
Global Complexity

Global Complexity

John Urry

This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics, geography and economics and to and to all those concerned with rethinking the nature of globalization.
Mobilities

Mobilities

John Urry

This book rewrites social science through a mobilities paradigm.
Mobilities

Mobilities

John Urry

This book rewrites social science through a mobilities paradigm.
Climate Change and Society

Climate Change and Society

John Urry

This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes.
Automobilities

Automobilities

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Three Ages of the Automobile The Cultural Logics of the Car David Gartman JOHN URRY (2000: 57-64) has recently changed the way wethink about automobiles with his idea of automobility. With this concept focused on movement and ...
The Tourist Gaze 3.0

The Tourist Gaze 3.0

John Urry

Three new chapters have been added which explore: photography and digitization embodied performances risks and alternative futures This book is essential reading for all involved in contemporary tourism, leisure, cultural policy, design, ...
Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-first ...

Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-first ...

John Urry

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

Scientific Theology: Theory

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In their important work Contested Natures (1998), Phil Macnaghten and John Urry explored these two very different ways of experiencing, perceiving, representing and valuing nature, noting how their differences are laden with significance in ...
A Scientific Theology

A Scientific Theology

Alister E. McGrath

In their important work Contested Natures (1998), Phil Macnaghten and John Urry explored these two very different ways of experiencing, perceiving, representing and valuing nature, noting how their differences are laden with significance in ...
Scientific Theology: Theory

Scientific Theology: Theory

Alister E. McGrath

In their important work Contested Natures (1998), Phil Macnaghten and John Urry explored these two very different ways of experiencing, perceiving, representing and valuing nature, noting how their differences are laden with significance in ...
Consuming Places

Consuming Places

JOHN Urry

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.
Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects

Peter Adey

As Kingsley Dennis and John Urry (2009) suggest, the apparent flexibility and liquidity of mobile technologies such as the aeroplane are entirely dependent upon the liquidity of the resource oil - a commodity with a limited future. In this context ...
Consuming Places

Consuming Places

John Urry

Contains significant essays on the sociology of place. Interrogates nature of time and place, how places are economically and culturally transformed and the ways in which travel has changed nature and the environment.
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (RLE Social Theory)

Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (RLE Social Theory)

John Urry

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.
After the Car

After the Car

Kingsley Dennis

Kingsley Dennis, John Urry. control and advise traffic on the network to maintain traffic flow without adversely affecting the local environment.18 Indeed, road space allocation may lead to trafficmanagement systems that will prioritize journeys ...
Nature: From nature to natures : contestation and reconstruction

Nature: From nature to natures : contestation and reconstruction

David Inglis

38 TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF NATURE Phil Macnaghten and John Urry Source: Sociology 29(2) (1995): 203-220. Abstract This paper is concerned with the relationship between sociology and nature or the environment. We briefly ...
Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture

Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture

Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Matthew Paterson, Automobile Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). 15. See, e.g., Kingsley Dennis and John Urry, “The Digital Nexus of Post- Automobility,” Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, ...
The Tourist Gaze

The Tourist Gaze

John Urry

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.
The Tourist Gaze

The Tourist Gaze

John Urry

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.
Mobile Technologies of the City

Mobile Technologies of the City

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mobile technologies of the city/(edited by) Mimi Sheller and John Urry. p. cm. – (The networked cities series) 1. City and  ...
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

General Stanley McChrystal

Michael Martin and Lee C. McIntyre (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994), 56. 67 “when China gets a cold"...John Urry, Global Complexity (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 2003). Quoted in Ben Ramalingam, Harry Jones, Toussaint Reba, ...
Cargomobilities: Moving Materials in a Global Age

Cargomobilities: Moving Materials in a Global Age

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Moving Materials in a Global Age Thomas Birtchnell, Satya Savitzky, John Urry. Changing Mobilities Series Editors: Monika Büscher, Peter Adey This series explores the transformations of society, politics and everyday experiences wrought by ...
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (RLE Social Theory)

Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (RLE Social Theory)

John Urry

01890, USA George Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd, 8 Napier Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia First published in 1983 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Abercrombie, Nicholas Capital, labour and the middle classes.
Digital Theatre: A "live" and Mediated Art Form Expanding ...

Digital Theatre: A "live" and Mediated Art Form Expanding ...

Nadja Linnine Masura

Places have indeed been physically and semiotically designed for landscape rather than land." Phil MacNaghten, and John Urry, "Bodies of Nature: Introduction," in Bodies of Nature, edited by Phil MacNaghten and JohnUrry, 1-11 (London: ...
A Framework for Sustainable Global Development and the ...

A Framework for Sustainable Global Development and the ...

Gregory Borne

One commentator, in conjunction with a number of collaborators, who has attempted to directly tackle the complexities involved in public perceptions of sustainable development is Phil Macnaghten (Macnaghten and Urry 1998; Macnaghten ...
3D Printing in Custom Capitalism

3D Printing in Custom Capitalism

Thomas Birtchnell

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.

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