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  • What is the Future?

    by John Urry ...
    Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the greatest mystery, especially because futures are unpredictable and often unknowable, the outcome of many factors, known and unknown. The future is ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Offshoring

    by John Urry ...
    The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies. These often secretive activities offshore also involve relations of work, finance, pleasure, waste, energy and security. Powerful and pervasive offshore worlds ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Place, Policy and Politics

    Do Localities Matter?

    Edited by Michael Harloe, C.G. Pickvance, John Urry ...
    The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies.The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

    by 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 important sociological ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Mobile Lives

    by Anthony Elliott, John Urry ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    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, ordinary lives. The authors ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Contested Natures

    by John Urry, Phil Macnaghten ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    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 global.The authors ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

  • Travels in Paradox

    Remapping Tourism

    by Kathleen Adams, Tim Edensor, Steven Flusty, Jessica Jacobs, Pauliina Raento, John Urry, Soile Veijola, Ning Wang, Mike Crang ...
    This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. The book examines how ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Mobile Methods

    Edited by Monika Büscher, John Urry, Katian Witchger ...
    In the twenty-first century, more than ever, everything and everybody seems to be on the move. Global flows of people, goods, food, money, information, services and media images are forming an intensely mobile background to everyday life. Social scientists, too, are on the move, seeking new analytical purchase on these important aspects of the social world by trying to move with, and to be moved ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The End of Organized Capitalism

    by Scott Lash, John Urry ...
    In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.In a wide-ranging analysis of the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and others, he argues that there are three key issues which have shaped debates in this field: first, the nature and origin of nations and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    by John Urry, Jonas Larsen ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "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 UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Societies beyond Oil

    Oil Dregs and Social Futures

    by John Urry ...
    What would a de-carbonised society be like? What are the implications of a general de-globalisation for our social futures? How will our high-carbon patterns of life be restructured in a de-energized world?As global society gradually wakes up to the new reality of peak oil, these questions remain unanswered. For the last hundred years oil made the world go round, and as we move into the century of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes

    by John Urry, Nicholas Abercrombie ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    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 distinction is of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD