This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides anengaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumptionis intim... » 

This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides anengaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumptionis intimately related to the production of space in everyday life.In Geographies of Consumption Juliana Mansvelt provides readers with a detailedexplanation of politicaleconomic and socialcultural perspectives onconsumption at different scales. She opens with overview chapters on thehistory and conceptualisation of consumption and moves on to thematic chapterson consumption spaces the body and identity commodity chains globalizationcommercial cultures.The text is illustrated throughout with comparative case studymaterial andfeatures boxes and annotated notes for further reading.A review of consumption from a spatial perspective this critical analysis ofthe key debates is the first synoptic overview in the geographic literature.Geographies of Consumption will be widely used in modules in economic andsocial geography and should be the core text for those with a focus onconsumption «