| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Note |
Papers collected from the ESRC/AHRC Cultures of Consumption Programme seminar. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Grounding Consuming Space. 1. Introduction: situating consumption, space and place / Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman, and Michael Redclift --- 2. Multiple spaces of consumption: some historical perspectives / Frank Trentmann --- 3. The seduction of space / David B. Clarke ---- Part I. The Consumption of Space and Place. 4. Frontier spaces of production and consumption: surfaces, appearances and representations on the Mayan Riviera / Michael Redclift --- 5. 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. 6. Ethical campaigning and buyer-driven commodity chains: transforming retailers' purchasing practices? / Alex Hughes, Neil Wrigley and Martin Buttle --- 7. 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. 8. Manufacturing meaning along the chicken supply chain: consumer anxiety and the spaces of production / Peter Jackson, Neil Ward and Polly Russell --- 9. Place and space in alternative food networks: connecting production and consumption / David Goodman ----Part IV. Consumption as Production and Production as Consumption. 10. Creating palate geographies: Chilean wine and UK consumption spaces / Robert N. Gwynne --- 11. Consuming Burmese teak: anatomy of a violent luxury resource / Raymond Bryant --- 12. Space for change or changing spaces: exploiting virtual spaces of consumption / Angus Lang, Terry Newholm and Gillian Hogg. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human geography.
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Human geography. |
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Human territoriality.
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Human territoriality. |
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Spatial behavior.
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Spatial behavior. |
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Consumption (Economics)
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Goodman, Michael K., 1969-
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Goodman, David, 1938-
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Redclift, M. R.
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Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain)
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Arts and Humanities Research Board (Great Britain)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780754672296 |
| ISBN |
9780754672296 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0754672298 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780754689119 (ebook) |
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0754689115 (ebook) |
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1282525107 |
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9781282525108 |
| Standard No. |
9786612525100 |
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