Consuming space : placing consumption in perspective

Online-Ressource (xii, 282 p)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Grounding Consuming Space; 1 Introduction: Situating Consumption, Space and Place; 2 Multiple Spaces of Consumption: Some Historical Perspectives; 3 The Seduction of Space; Part I - The Consumption of Space and Place; 4 Frontier Spaces of Production and Consumption: Surfaces, Appearances and Representations on the 'Mayan Riviera'; 5 Recognition and Redistribution in the Renegotiation of Rural Space: The Dynamics of Aesthetic and Ethical Critiques; Part II - Consumption in Space and Place

6 Ethical Campaigning and Buyer-Driven Commodity Chains: Transforming Retailers' Purchasing Practices?7 The Cultural Economy of the Boutique Hotel: The Case of the Schrager and W Hotels in New York; Part III - Consumption as Connection/Disconnection/Reconnection; 8 Manufacturing Meaning along the Chicken Supply Chain: Consumer Anxiety and the Spaces of Production; 9 Place and Space in Alternative Food Networks: Connecting Production and Consumption; Part IV - Consumption as Production and Production as Consumption; 10 Creating Palate Geographies: Chilean Wine and UK Consumption Spaces

11 Consuming Burmese Teak: Anatomy of a Violent Luxury Resource12 Space for Change or Changing Spaces: Exploiting Virtual Spaces of Consumption; Index

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