
Consuming Space : Placing Consumption in Perspective.
Title:
Consuming Space : Placing Consumption in Perspective.
Author:
Goodman, Michael K, Professor.
ISBN:
9780754689119
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Grounding Consuming Space -- 1 Introduction: Situating Consumption, Space and Place -- 2 Multiple Spaces of Consumption: Some Historical Perspectives -- 3 The Seduction of Space -- Part I - The Consumption of Space and Place -- 4 Frontier Spaces of Production and Consumption: Surfaces, Appearances and Representations on the 'Mayan Riviera' -- 5 Recognition and Redistribution in the Renegotiation of Rural Space: The Dynamics of Aesthetic and Ethical Critiques -- Part II - Consumption in Space and Place -- 6 Ethical Campaigning and Buyer-Driven Commodity Chains: Transforming Retailers' Purchasing Practices? -- 7 The Cultural Economy of the Boutique Hotel: The Case of the Schrager and W Hotels in New York -- Part III - Consumption as Connection/Disconnection/Reconnection -- 8 Manufacturing Meaning along the Chicken Supply Chain: Consumer Anxiety and the Spaces of Production -- 9 Place and Space in Alternative Food Networks: Connecting Production and Consumption -- Part IV - Consumption as Production and Production as Consumption -- 10 Creating Palate Geographies: Chilean Wine and UK Consumption Spaces -- 11 Consuming Burmese Teak: Anatomy of a Violent Luxury Resource -- 12 Space for Change or Changing Spaces: Exploiting Virtual Spaces of Consumption -- Index.
Abstract:
An examination of the relationship between space, place and consumption offers important insights into some of the most powerful forces constructing contemporary societies. Space and place are made and remade through consumption. Yet how do cultures of consumption discover space, and how do they construct place? This book addresses these questions by exploring the implications of conceptualizing consumption as a spatial, increasingly global, yet intensely localized activity. The work develops integrative approaches that articulate the processes involved in the production and consumption of space and place. The result is a varied, engaging, and innovative study of consumption and its role in structuring contemporary capitalist political economies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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