John Urry

John Richard Urry (born June 1, 1946 in London , † March 18, 2016 in Lancaster , Lancashire ) was a British sociologist. Most recently, he was Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University . His work is particularly influential in social and cultural geography .

Urry studied at the University of Cambridge , where he passed his bachelor and master ’s exams and obtained his Ph.D. received his doctorate. Since 1985 he has been a professor at Lancaster University.

Initially, his research interests were in political power and political revolutions, dealing with various Marxist theorists such as Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser . Later, in his research, he turned to social change on a global scale, especially to that associated with increasing mobility.

The University of Roskilde awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2004.

Fonts (selection)

• The end of organized capitalism (with Scott Lash ), Madison (Wisconsin) 1987, ISBN 0299116700
• The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies , London 1990, ISBN 0803981821
• Economies of signs and space (with Scott Lash), London 1994, ISBN 0803984715
• Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-first Century , London / New York 2000, ISBN 0415190894
• Global complexity , Cambridge / Malden 2003, ISBN 0745628176
• Mobilites , Cambridge / Malden. 2007, ISBN 9780745634197
• Climate change and society , Cambridge, UK 2011, ISBN 9780745650364

literature

• Peter Adey and David Bissell: Mobilities, meetings, and futures: an interview with John Urry . In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28, 2010, pp. 1-16.
• Peter Adey: John Urry . In: Key Thinkers on Space and Place , 2nd ed., Ed. by Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin, London a. a. 2010, ISBN 9781849201025 , pp. 432-439.

Web links

• Literature by and about John Urry in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary for John Urry, University of Lancaster