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Lash, Scott, and John Urry. Economies of Signs and Space. London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1994.
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Table of contents
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| Preface | vii |
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| 1. Introduction: After Organized Capitalism | 1 |
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| Part 1. Economies of Objects and Subjects |
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| 2. Mobile Objects | 12 |
| Emptying out: subjects, space-time, objects | 13 |
| The spatial institutions of capitalism: the new core | 17 |
| Core and periphery | 28 |
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| 3. Reflexive Subjects | 31 |
| Reflexive modernization: the risk society | 32 |
| Giddens: self-reflexivity in modernity | 37 |
| Bodies and classifications | 44 |
| Sources of the self: the uses of allegory | 51 |
| Aesthetic reflexivity and time-space | 54 |
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| Part 2. Economies of Signs and the Other |
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| 4. Reflexive Accumulation: Information Structures and
Production Systems | 60 |
| Collective reflexivity: Japanese production systems | 65 |
| Practical reflexivity: German production systems | 81 |
| Discursive reflexivity: information-rich production systems | 94 |
| Conclusion | 107 |
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| 5. Accumulating Signs: The Culture Industries | 111 |
| Flexible production: disintegrated firms | 113 |
| Limits of flexibility: training, finance, distribution | 123 |
| Reflexive objects | 131 |
| Conclusion | 142 |
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| 6. Ungovernable Spaces: The Underclass and Impacted Ghettoes | 145 |
| The American underclass | 146 |
| The underclass in Europe | 157 |
| Polarization: poverty and professionals | 160 |
| The politics of space and the making of the underclass | 165 |
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| 7. Mobile Subjects: Migration in Comparative Perspective | 171 |
| Migration after organized capitalism | 171 |
| Case-study: clothing and fashion | 175 |
| Corporatist exclusion in a reunited Germany | 180 |
| Conclusion | 190 |
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| Part 3. Economies Of Space and Time |
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| 8. Post-Industrial Spaces | 193 |
| Restructuring services | 197 |
| Restructuring and the public sector | 207 |
| Services and the restructuring of place | 211 |
| Conclusion | 220 |
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| 9. Time and Memory | 223 |
| Sociology of time | 224 |
| Time and the duality of structure | 230 |
| Time, powers and nature | 236 |
| Disorganized capitalism and time | 241 |
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| Part 4. Globalization and Modernity |
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| 10. Mobility, Modernity and Place | 252 |
| Travel and modernity | 252 |
| The emergence of organized tourism | 260 |
| Tourist services and disorganized capitalism | 269 |
| Conclusion | 277 |
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| 11. Globalization and Localization | 279 |
| Money and finance | 285 |
| Nature and the environment | 292 |
| Global culture and national culture | 305 |
| Conclusion | 312 |
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| 12. Conclusion | 314 |
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| Bibliography | 327 |
| Index | 351 |
