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2022

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
93
Citations
104693
World Ranking
144
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

John Urry was affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research focused primarily on the social sciences, with particular attention to anthropology and marketing as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work included archaeology and natural history, American history and culture, and historical and cultural archaeology studies. These thematic areas reflect a scholarly engagement with both material culture and broader historical contexts related to American history.

Their recent publications comprised two papers:

  • A Study of Southwestern Archaeology. Stephen H. Lekson. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2018, 480 pp. $34.95, paper. ISBN 9781607816416. Published in 2020 in the Journal of Anthropological Research.
  • The House of the Cylinder Jars: Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. Patricia L. Crown, editor. 2020. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. xiv + 222 pp. $95.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8263-6177-6. $95.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8263-6178-3. Published in 2022 in American Antiquity.

The publication venues for these papers were:

  • Journal of Anthropological Research
  • American Antiquity

The scientist had no frequent co-authors listed.

Throughout their career, John Urry contributed to academic discussions situated at the intersection of anthropology and archaeology, particularly focusing on material culture in the American Southwest. The works indicate an interdisciplinary approach connecting archaeological findings with historical and cultural narratives.

Best Publications

  • The Tourist Gaze “Revisited”

    John Urry

  • Economies of signs and space

    Scott Lash;John Urry

  • The new mobilities paradigm.

    Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Sociology beyond societies : mobilities for the twenty-first century

    John Urry

  • Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society

    Margaret Grieco;John Urry

  • The end of organized capitalism

    Scott Lash;John Urry

  • The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies

    John Urry

  • The tourist gaze

    John Urry

  • Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings

    Kevin Hannam;Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • The ‘System’ of Automobility

    John Urry

  • Enacting the social

    John Law;John Urry

  • Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings

    Kevin Hannam;Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Mobility and Proximity

    John Urry

  • Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

    Russell Keat;John Urry

  • The City and the Car

    Mimi Sheller;John Urry

  • Social Relations and Spatial Structures

    Derek Gregory;John Urry

  • The tourist gaze 3.0

    John Urry;Jonas Larsen

  • Mobile Methods and the Empirical

    Monika Büscher;John Urry

  • Performing Tourist Places

    Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt;Michael Haldrup;Jonas Larsen;John Urry

  • Climate Change and Society

    John Urry

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott Lash
Scott Lash University of Oxford
Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller Drexel University
Alan Warde
Alan Warde University of Manchester
Elizabeth Shove
Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University
Sylvia Walby
Sylvia Walby City, University of London
Jane Falkingham
Jane Falkingham University of Southampton
Christopher D. F. Rogers
Christopher D. F. Rogers University of Birmingham
Rachel Cooper
Rachel Cooper Lancaster University
Andrew Sayer
Andrew Sayer Lancaster University
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol

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