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Consuming space : placing consumption in perspective /

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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain), Arts and Humanities Research Board (Great Britain)
Otros Autores: Goodman, Michael K., 1969-, Goodman, David, 1938-, Redclift, M. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.