Libros de John Urry

Deslocalizaciones

• 264 páginas

Mobilities: New Perspectives On Transport And Society

• Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and..

Offshoring

• The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring..

Offshoring

• The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring..

The End Of Organised Capitalism

• In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and..

Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs And Social Futures

• This groundbreaking book, from a distinguished sociologist, examines the profound adjustments..

Mobilities

• Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and..

Climate Change And Society

• 217 páginas
• This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts..

Climate Change And Society

• 224 páginas
• 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. So far the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behaviour...

After The Car

• 224 páginas
• It is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry..

Mobilities

• 344 páginas
• Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and..

Sociology Beyond Societies

• 255 páginas
• In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that, if sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the global era, it must abandon its original aim--the study of society as a set of institutions--and switch...

Global Complexity

• 184 páginas
• This work examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can help us to analyse global processes. The idea of complexity emphasises that systems are balanced between order and chaos, that events are both unpredictable and irreversible in their effects....

Global Complexity

• 184 páginas
• Global Complexity is a path-breaking book, which examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can

Economies Of Signs And Space

Contested Natures

Touring Cultures

• 224 páginas
• It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in

Consuming Places

• 272 páginas
• 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.