ABSTRACT
In a world long on ‘isms’ the notion of an Urryism finding favour in the future – that is, a group inspired by John Urry’s canon – is problematized by the sheer breadth of his intellectual pursuits and his habitual rejection of monist thinking. John Urry went on to pluralize many concepts in his career: the notion of society, nature, mobility, the climate, and even the future. His legacy will be the depth he gave to all of these subjects as well as the critical awareness that there are more sides to most stories. The impetus for John Urry’s pluralization of the idea of ‘society’ was the pressure the social sciences felt in the ‘rebranding’ in the 1980s of the Social Science Research Council due to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s assertion that ‘there is no such thing as society’.
