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  • What is the Future?

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Offshoring

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • O olhar do turista 3.0

    Considerado um clássico para a formação de estudantes e profissionais de turismo, além da sociologia do lazer, o livro dialoga com um vasto repertório no campo das humanidades em diálogo atento ao impacto das novas tecnologias sobre viagens e viajantes. O que constitui uma experiência real e como se dá a encenação da experiência turística? Quem são seus protagonistas? Quais agentes compõem os ... Leer más

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  • Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Mobile Lives

    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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Mobile Methods

    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 ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    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 ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Mobilities, Networks, Geographies

    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 book puts forward one ... Leer más

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  • A New Industrial Future?

    3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption

    Series series Antinomies
    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 drawing upon expert ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

    de John Urry ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    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 sets out a theory of ... Leer más

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  • Contested Natures

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Travels in Paradox

    Remapping Tourism

    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 ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD