Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective

by David Goodman, Michael Redclift, Michael K Goodman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409488514
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Dr Michael K. Goodman is Lecturer in Geography, King's College London, David Goodman is Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA and Michael Redclift is Professor of International Environmental Policy at King's College London, UK

Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman, Michael Redclift, Frank Trentmann, David B. Clarke, John Wilkinson, Alex Hughes, Neil Wrigley, Martin Buttle, Donald McNeill, Kim McNamara, Peter Jackson, Neil Ward, Polly Russell, Robert N. Gwynne, Raymond L. Bryant, Angus Laing, Terry Newholm, Gill Hogg.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction – Grounding Consuming Space: Introduction: situating consumption, space and place, Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman, and Michael Redclift; Multiple spaces of consumption: some historical perspectives, Frank Trentmann; The seduction of space, David B. Clarke. Part I The Consumption of Space and Place: Frontier spaces of production and consumption: surfaces, appearances and representations on the ‘Mayan Riviera’, Michael Redclift; Recognition and redistribution in the renegotiation of rural space: the dynamics of aesthetic and ethical critiques, John Wilkinson. Part II Consumption in Space and Place: Ethical campaigning and buyer-driven commodity chains: transforming retailers' purchasing practices?, Alex Hughes, Neil Wrigley and Martin Buttle; The cultural economy of the boutique hotel: the case of the Schrager and W hotels in New York, Donald McNeill and Kim McNamara. Part III Consumption as Connection/Disconnection/Reconnection: Manufacturing meaning along the chicken supply chain: consumer anxiety and the spaces of production, Peter Jackson, Neil Ward and Polly Russell; Place and space in alternative food networks: connecting production and consumption, David Goodman. Part IV Consumption as Production and Production as Consumption: Creating palate geographies: Chilean wine and UK consumption spaces, Robert N. Gwynne; Consuming Burmese teak: anatomy of a violent luxury resource, Raymond L. Bryant; Space for change or changing spaces: exploiting virtual spaces of consumption, Angus Laing, Terry Newholm and Gill Hogg; Index.