Consuming Geographies

Author : David Bell,Gill Valentine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135103231

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Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place. Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the food media, this book demonstrates the importance of space and place in identity formation. We all think place (and) identity through food - we are where we eat!

Author : David Bell,Gill Valentine
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0415137683

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Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are intensively reflexive, and food consumption as a practice impacts on our sense of place.

Author : David Bell,Gill Valentine
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : 9780415137676

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Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are intensively reflexive, and food consumption as a practice impacts on our sense of place.

Author : Hillary J. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136679322

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The Consuming Geographies of Food by Hillary J. Shaw Pdf

The consumption and distribution of food, as well as its production, has become a major public policy issue over the past few decades; what we eat is no longer merely a private matter but carries significant externalities for wider society. Its increasing significance within the public arena implies a dissonance regarding the boundaries of food; where do we draw the line between food as private and food as public? What are the rights of society to impinge upon individual food consumption, and what conflicts will ensue when this boundary is disputed? The Consuming Geographies of Food explores these multiple issues of food across different regions of the world from the consumer’s perspective. It uniquely explicates the factors that lead customers towards certain typologies of consumption and towards certain types of retailing, offering a comprehensive review of the obesity problem, the phenomenon of food deserts and the issue of exclusion from a healthy diet. It then considers the effects of food on the consumer, the dynamic relationship between food and people, and the issue of food exclusion before concluding with possible futures for food consumption, from low-technology projects to high-technology scenarios. Based on original research into food access, ethics and consumption in both developed and less-developed countries this book will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the fields of geography, economics, hospitality health, marketing, nutrition and sociology.

Author : Juliana Mansvelt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 076197430X

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Geographies of Consumption by Juliana Mansvelt Pdf

An overview of the research into consumer behaviour and the use of space, including the internet, identity, connections through commodity chains, commercial culture and morality.

Author : Wendy Schissel,University of Saskatchewan. Women's Studies Research Unit
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781552381847

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Home/bodies by Wendy Schissel,University of Saskatchewan. Women's Studies Research Unit Pdf

With Home/Bodies, editor Wendy Schissel brings together a diverse range of voices which explore the concepts of home, gender, and identity. Home/Bodies includes contributions by several new-generation feminist scholars and researchers, along with established teachers, researchers, and activists in the academy and the community.

Author : Louise Crewe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781472589583

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The Geographies of Fashion by Louise Crewe Pdf

Clothes are inherently geographical objects, yet few of us consider the social and economic significance of their journey from design to production to consumption. The Geographies of Fashion is the first in-depth study of fashion economies from a geographer's perspective, exploring the complex relationship between our attachment to the clothes we own, love and desire, and their geographic and economic ties. How far does a garment physically travel from factory to wardrobe? How do clothes come to have social or economic value and who or what creates it? What are the geographies of fashion and how do they interact with one another? This ground-breaking book powerfully reframes fashion spaces, from the body to the city, digital or virtual space to material production, positioning fashion at the centre of contemporary culture and collective identities. Combining contemporary theoretical approaches with a cutting-edge analysis of international fashion brands and institutions including Maison Martin Margiela, Zara, Louis Vuitton, ASOS and Savile Row, The Geographies of Fashion is essential reading for students of fashion, geography and related disciplines including sociology, architecture and design.

Author : Sarah L. Holloway,Gill Valentine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134622542

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Children's Geographies by Sarah L. Holloway,Gill Valentine Pdf

Children's Geographies is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, the book analyses children's experiences of playing, living and learning. The diverse case studies range from an historical analysis of gender relationss in nineteenth century North American playgrounds through to children's experiences of after school care in contemporary Britain, to street cultures amongst homeless children in Indonesia at the end of the twentieth century. Threaded through this empirical diversity, is a common engagement with current debates about the nature of childhood. The individual chapters draw on contemporary sociological understandings of children's competence as social actors. In so doing they not only illustrate the importance of such an approach to our understandings of children's geographies, they also contribute to current debates about spatiality in the social studies of childhood.

Author : Juliana Mansvelt
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847871428

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Geographies of Consumption by Juliana Mansvelt Pdf

This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life. In Geographies of Consumption Juliana Mansvelt provides readers with a detailed explanation of political-economic and social-cultural perspectives on consumption at different scales. She opens with overview chapters on the history and conceptualisation of consumption and moves on to thematic chapters on consumption spaces; the body and identity; commodity chains; globalization commercial cultures. The text is illustrated throughout with comparative case study-material and features boxes and annotated notes for further reading. A review of consumption from a spatial perspective, this critical analysis of the key debates is the first synoptic overview in the geographic literature. Geographies of Consumption will be widely used in modules in economic and social geography, and should be the core text for those with a focus on consumption

Author : Professor David Goodman,Professor Michael Redclift,Professor Michael K Goodman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409488514

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Consuming Space by Professor David Goodman,Professor Michael Redclift,Professor Michael K Goodman Pdf

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 : Tim Edensor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317129042

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Geographies of Rhythm by Tim Edensor Pdf

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. Here, leading geographers advance and expand on Lefebvre's theories, examining how they intersect with current theoretical and political concerns within the social sciences. In terms of geography, rhythmanalysis highlights tensions between repetition and innovation, between the need for consistency and the need for disruption. These tensions reveal the ways in which social time is managed to ensure a measure of stability through the instantiation of temporal norms, whilst at the same time showing how this is often challenged. In looking at the rhythms of geographies, and drawing upon a wide range of geographical contexts, this book explores the ordering of different rhythms according to four main themes: rhythms of nature, rhythms of everyday life, rhythms of mobility, and the official and routine rhythms which superimpose themselves on the multiple rhythms of the body.

Author : Harvey Neo,Jody Emel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317129196

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Geographies of Meat by Harvey Neo,Jody Emel Pdf

With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of the world? What are some of the ways to resist such broad convergences in meat production and how successful are they? This book locates the answers to these questions at the intersection between the culture, science and political economy of meat production and consumption. It details how and why techniques of production have spread across the world, albeit in a spatially uneven way. It argues that the modern meat production and consumption sphere is the outcome of a complex matrix of cultural politics, economics and technological faith. Drawing from examples across the world (including America, Europe and Asia), the tensions and repercussions of meat production and consumption are also analyzed. From a geographical perspective, food animals have been given considerably less attention compared to wild animals or pets. This book, framed conceptually by critical animal studies, governmentality and commodification, is a theoretically driven and empirically rich study that advances the study of food animals in geography as well as in the wider social sciences.

Author : Liz Bondi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317144601

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Emotional Geographies by Liz Bondi Pdf

Bringing together well-established interdisciplinary scholars - including geographers Phil Hubbard, Chris Philo and Hester Parr, and sociologists Jenny Hockey, Mike Hepworth and John Urry - and a new generation of researchers, this volume presents a wide range of innovative studies of fundamentally important questions of emotion. Following an overarching introduction, three interlinked sections elaborate key intersections between emotions and spatial concepts, on which each chapter offers a particular take informed by substantive research. At the heart of the collection lies a commitment to convey how emotions always spill over from one domain to another, as well as to illuminate the multiplicity of spaces that produce and are produced by emotional life. The book demonstrates the richness that an interdisciplinary engagement with the emotionality of socio-spatial life generates.

Author : D. Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473164515

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Consuming Geographies by D. Bell Pdf

Author : John Horton,Peter Kraftl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317753674

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Cultural Geographies by John Horton,Peter Kraftl Pdf

Cultural geography is a major, vibrant subdiscipline of human geography. Cultural geographers have done some of the most important, exciting and thought-provokingly zesty work in human geography over the last half-century. This book exists to provide an introduction to the remarkably diverse, controversial, and sometimes-infuriating work of cultural geographers. The book outlines how cultural geography in its various forms provides a rich body of research about cultural practices and politics in diverse contexts. Cultural geography offers a major resource for exploring the importance of cultural materials, media, texts and representations in particular contexts and is one of the most theoretically adventurous subdisciplines within human geography, engaging with many important lines of social and cultural theory. The book has been designed to provide an accessible, wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction for students studying cultural geography, or specific topics within this subdiscipline. Through a wide range of case studies and learning activities, it provides an engaging introduction to cultural geography.