Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754672296)

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.

Author: Michael K. Goodman
ISBN-10: 0754672298
ISBN-13: 9780754672296
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2010
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 83