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Distinguished Professor John Urry
Distinguished Professor and CeMoRe Director
Degree: BA, MA PhD Cambridge
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Lancaster Professions Network, Mobilities.Lab
Current Teaching
PhD supervision
Research Interests
Research in the last 25 years focused on five main areas. First, there is the urban and regional research mainly associated with the Lancaster Regionalism Group. Collaborative research resulted in Localities, Class and Gender (1985) and Restructuring. Place, Class and Gender (1990) Two particular themes have been pursued: the relationship between society and space (as in the Social Relations and Spatial Structures, co-edited with Derek Gregory, 1985); and the possibilities of developing local economic policies (as in Place, Policy and Politics, 1990).
The second area of research has been in the more general dimensions of economic and social change in western capitalist societies. This has resulted in three jointly written books, Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (1983); The End of Organized Capitalism (1987); and Economies of Signs and Space (1994; latter two with Scott Lash).
Third, research focused upon one particular set of industries that are of particular significance in contemporary western societies, namely consumer services and especially tourist-related services, see The Tourist Gaze (1990, 2002: 2nd edn, 2011), Consuming Places (1995), Touring Cultures (1997, edited with Chris Rojek),Tourism Mobilities(2004, edited with Mimi Sheller), and Performing Tourist Places (with J-O Barenholdt, M Haldrup, J. Larsen). This concern was extended see Contested Natures (1998) and Bodies of Nature (2001) (both with Phil Macnaghten).
Fourth, there are various research projects and publications relating to the changing nature of mobility within contemporary societies. Publications include:
- Sociology Beyond Societies (2000)
- Automobilities (2004/5; co-edited with Mike Featherstone, Nigel Thrift)
- Mobile Technologies of the City (2006; co-edited with Mimi Sheller)
- Mobilities, Networks, Geographies (2006; with Jonas Larsen, Kay Axhausen)
- Mobilities (2007)
- Aeromobilities (2009; co-edited with Saulo Cwerner and Sven Kesselring)
- After the Car (2009; with Kingsley Dennis)
Finally, some implications of complexity theory for the social sciences have been examined in Global Complexity (2003), and Complexity, a special double issue of Theory, Culture and Society (2005).
He is one of the founding editors of the journal Mobilities, and has been the editor of the International Library of Sociology since 1990 (Routledge).
Recent research Grants
- Travel Time Use in the Information Age (EPSRC), with Glenn Lyons, Juliet Jain, Laura Watts.
- UK-China Networks of Low Carbon Innovation (ESRC) with Brian Wynne, James Wilsdon and David Tyfield
- Alternative Automobility Futures, with Kingsley Dennis
- ESRC UK Transport Research Centre - Lancaster node
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Potential Doctoral Proposals
mobilities, complexity theory, tourism, transportation, contemporary capitalism, climate change and social science
Additional Information
Administration
Head of the Lancaster Sociology Department (1983-9)
Dean of the Lancaster Faculty of Social Sciences (1989-1994)
Lancaster Dean of Research (1994-1998)
Director of the Centre for Mobiliteis Research at Lancaster (2003-)
Chair of HEFCE's Research Assessment Exercise Sociology Panel (1996, 2001).
Member of executive committe and council, Academy of Social Sciences (2006-)
Research Students
Dana Bentia - Travelling tastes
Paula Bialski - Connecting When Mobile: How physical mobility is shifting how we interact, with whom, and why
Allison Hui - Enthusiastic Travel: Crafting the mobilities and travelling practices of enthusiasts and enthusiasms
Kichan Lee - Korean Memories
Misela Mavric - Bodily Performances of the Authentic
Sung-Yueh Perng - Media and Tourism
Basak Tanülkü - Gated communities in Istanbul, Turkey
James Tomasson - Rural heritage
Polly Atkins - Dove Cottage, Grasmere
Joe Rigby - Terror and Circulation: Border Practices in the War on Terror
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
John Urry has 91 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Urry, John (2010) Consuming the planet to excess. Theory, Culture, and Society . (In Press)
Urry, John (2010) Mobility. In: Hart, K., (ed.) The Human Economy: A World Citizen’s Guide. . (In Press)
Urry, John (2009) Aeromobilities and the global. In: Cwerner, S. and Kesselring, S. and Urry, John, (eds.) Aeromobilities. Routledge, London, pp. 25-38. ISBN 9780415449564
Dennis, K. and Urry, John (2009) After the Car. Polity. ISBN 9780745644219
Urry, John (2009) Carros, climas e futures complexos. In: Calvalcanti, J. and Weber, S. and Dwyer, T., (eds.) Desigualdade, Diferença e Reconhecimento. Tomo, Porto Allegre, pp. 105-130.
Urry, John and Tyfield, D. (2009) Cosmopolitan China: Lessons from International Collaboration in Low-Carbon Innovation. British Journal of Sociology, 60 (4). pp. 793-812. ISSN 1468-4446
Urry, John and Buscher, M. (2009) Mobile methods and the empirical. European Journal of Social Theory, 12 (1). pp. 99-116.
Urry, John (2009) The network society and the networked traveller. In: Saleh, M. and Sammer, G., (eds.) Travel Demand Management and Road User Pricing. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 89-107. ISBN 978-0-7546-7303-3
Urry, John (2009) The sociabilities of travel. In: Kitamura, R. and Yoshii, T. and Yamamoto, T., (eds.) The Expanding Sphere of Travel Behaviour Research. Emerald, pp. 3-16. ISBN 9781848559363
Urry, John (2008) Climate change, travel and complex futures. British Journal of Sociology, 59 (2). pp. 261-279.
Associated Keywords: Automobilities, Migration and diaspora, Mobilities, Social exclusion, Sociology, Systems theory
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Room: Bowland North, B11
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