Consuming Space

Placing Consumption in Perspective

By: Michael K. Goodman (Editor), David Goodman (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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298 Pages

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23.39 x 15.6 x 1.75

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Emerging from a series of seminars on 'Cultures of Consumption' which encouraged a robust interdisciplinary debate, this volume focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions of consumption. The contributors specifically explore the changing dimensions of consumption as networking across temporal and transcultural contexts. In considering spaces and places of consumption, it explores how these are delineated and scaled over time, and how the politics of scale play out over the changing networked relationships of local, national, transnational and globalized consumption spaces.In these spatial processes, the role of 'place' can become both fixed and malleable. In some cases, 'placed' commodities appear to act at a distance, acquiring value and 'reputation', while in other cases, commodity biographies of place are suppressed by mechanisms of displacement.A team of leading scholars from the USA, UK and Latin America analyze the different orderings of the 'power of space' in the historical, material and cultural constructions of consumption. In doing so, the book also questions the way the changing nature of consumption is dealt with theoretically and conceptually across space, place and time and the complicity of this analysis.

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'This is a book that quite literally maps the complex territory between consumption and production. Case studies of Chilean wine, chewing gum, chickens and more provide fascinating insight into the changing contours of what proves to be a fluid, contested and sometimes disturbing landscape.' Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University, UK 'In a most interesting set of geographical analyses Consuming Space enriches our understanding of the diverse spatial and locational patterns and relations of consumption in modern society. An excellent and innovative volume, complementary to the existing literature on consumption.' Arthur P.J. Mol, Wageningen University, The Netherlands 'The wide range of material covered in Consuming Places did indeed 'place consumption in perspective' demonstrating successfully how production and consumption are intertwined in the construction and reconstruction of place and space. A pleasure to consume, the book has a permanent 'place' on my bookshelf!' Juliana Mansvelt, New Zealand Geographer '... an enduring accomplishment of this edited collection is its significant contribution to the current debate on sustainable consumption. Indeed, it adds to our knowledge of the broader disciplines of human geography and economics and specifically of the fields of spatial behaviour, colonialism, post-colonialism and human territoriality. In summary, this publication should be regarded as essential reading for students, from undergraduate level upwards, and for geographers, historians and economists alike.' Irish Geography

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