Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Summary of Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Geographies of Consumption -- Geography and Consumption Matters -- Box 1.1 Geographies matter to consumption: eBay - the world at your fingertips -- Box 1.2 Consumption matters to geographies: e-trash as a world of waste -- Conceptualizing Consumption -- Box 1.3 The social life of things: commodified and decommodified moments -- Box 1.4 Material culture: why, where and how things come to matter -- Geographies of Consumption: Critical Social Science -- Spatialities of Consumption -- Box 1.5 Alternative economic spaces: local exchange trading schemes -- Socialities of Consumption -- Box 1.6 Ethical food relations: new socialities, new geographies and ethics -- Box 1.7 Horizontal and vertical systems of provision -- Subjectivities of Consumption -- Box 1.8 Mort: mapping masculinities -- Power Matters -- Box 1.9 Karl Marx (1818-1883). Producing consumption: commodification and commodity fetishism -- Marxism and political economy -- Poststructuralism -- Box 1.10 Foucault: productive power -- Box 1.11 Power geometries: the social and spatial exercise of power -- Outline of the Chapters -- Consumption and Geography Matters -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 2 Histories -- Urbanization, Industrialization and the Emergence of 'Modern Consumption' -- Box 2.1 When did modern consumption emerge? -- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Consumerism: the Spatial and Social Extension of Consumption -- Box 2.2 Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). Consuming production: conspicuous consumption and emulation -- Box 2.3 Advertising and the context of the commodity: commodity racism -- Emerging 'public' spaces of consumption -- Box 2.4 'Consuming' women out of place: the New York woman and the middle class shoplifter -- Fordist production and consumption.

Alternative geographies -- Box 2.5 Contesting the hegemony of consumerism: consumer societies -- Postmodernity and Niche Consumption -- Box 2.6 Postmodernity and lifestyle shopping -- 'Placing' Transformation in Consumption: Problems of Extrapolation and Interpretation -- Box 2.7 Capitalism, commodification and consumption in Russia -- Histories and Chronologies: the Need for Specificity -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 3 Spaces -- Space, Place and Scale -- Box 3.1 Lefebvre and Soja: making sense of space -- Box 3.2 Robert Sack and the consumer's world -- Spectacular spaces -- Box 3.3 Theme parks: spectacular spaces of consumption -- Trajectories of Consumption? Placing Consumption Sites -- Box 3.4 Benjamin and the arcades project -- Shopping malls: all-consuming places? -- Box 3.5 John Goss and the magic of the mall -- Box 3.6 Reconciling textual and ethnographic approaches -- Box 3.7 Socialities and subjectivities: shopping malls in Turkey -- Exploring 'alternative' sites of consumption -- Box 3.8 Alternative spaces of consumption -- Home: Scaling Public/Private Spheres -- Box 3.9 Making home and home-making: tools of gender? -- Geographies of Cyberspace -- The Internet and cyberspace: inclusions and exclusions -- Box 3.10 Consuming cyberspace: linking real and virtual worlds -- Consuming Spaces -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 4 Identities -- Consuming Identities and the Postmodern Condition -- We consume to become who we are? -- We consume according to who we are? -- Box 4.1 Bourdieu: cultural capital, distinction and identity formation -- Body Matters -- Box 4.2 Geographies of the body matter: the wardrobe moment -- Bodies out of place -- Box 4.3 Embodiment and emplacement: landscapes of 'later years' -- Linking Embodiment and Emplacement -- Performance -- Box 4.4 Goffman: performance in frontstage and backstage settings -- Performativity.

Box 4.5 Butler: performativity, gender and identity -- Box 4.6 Body matter: dirt, discourse and second-hand clothing -- Placing Consuming Identities: Geographies of Food -- Box 4.7 The world on a plate: displacement and identities -- Box 4.8 Consuming food: spaces, practices, identities -- Commodity and Body Journeys -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 5 Connections -- Linking Production and Consumption: the Commodity Chain -- Box 5.1 Chickens and commodity connections -- Global commodity chains -- Box 5.2 Nike: 'just do it' or 'just stop it'? Consumer activism and global chains -- Box 5.3 Services and commodity chains: the case of sex tourism -- Systems of provision -- Box 5.4 Transnational biographies: the used clothing industry -- Commodity Circuits -- Box 5.5 The Story of the Sony Walkman -- Actor Network Theory -- Box 5.6 Plants and people: an ANT approach -- Box 5.7 Linking consumption and production: black boxes and coffee consumption -- Box 5.8 Shaping motherhood and milk consumption: poststructural political economies -- Power, Politics and Connectivities -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 6 Commercial Cultures -- Understanding Commercial Cultures -- Box 6.1 Commercial cultures -- Music: Exploring the Politics of Commercial Culture -- Box 6.2 Instore music: the product and performance of consumption -- Box 6.3 Hip-hop: rap as resistance? -- Commercial Cultures and Globalization -- Global homogenization -- Box 6.4 McDonald's: consuming meanings in sacred and therapeutic landscapes -- Creolization, hybridity and transnationalism -- Box 6.5 Transnationalism and commercial cultures -- Tourism: Consuming Culture as Other? -- Box 6.6 One hundred per cent pure? Maori as the welcome party of Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Commercial Cultures as Connections -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 7 Moralities -- Performativity: Seeing, Doing and Becoming Geographies.

Box 7.1 Consumption knowledges: performing the subject of consumption -- Box 7.2 Food deserts: deprivation and diet -- Moral Geographies of Consumption -- Box 7.3 Commodification, consumer culture and moral economy -- Box 7.4 Perspectives and praxis: influencing global environmental change? -- Box 7.5 Questions of sustainability: household consumption practices -- Box 7.6 Shaping moral geographies: consumer citizens and climate protection -- Politics and Praxis -- Box 7.7 The practice of hunger -- Consuming Geographies -- Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Index.