Consuming Space – Placing Consumption in Perspective

Consuming Space – Placing Consumption in Perspective

Article Type: Books and resources From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 21, Issue 6

Edited by Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman and Michael RedcliftAshgateLondonApril 2010296 pp.ISBN 9780754672296£60.00

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.