This book explores the relationship between space, place and consumption, aiming to develop 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.

Introduction; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Multiple Spaces of Consumption; Chapter 3: The Seduction of Space; Part I: The Consumption of Space and Place; Chapter 4: Frontier Spaces of Production and Consumption; Chapter 5: Recognition and Redistribution in the Renegotiation of Rural Space; Part II: Consumption in Space and Place; Chapter 6: Ethical Campaigning and Buyer-Driven Commodity Chains; Chapter 7: The Cultural Economy of the Boutique Hotel; Part III: Consumption as Connection/Disconnection/Reconnection; Chapter 8: Manufacturing Meaning along the Chicken Supply Chain; Chapter 9: Place and Space in Alternative Food Networks; Part IV: Consumption as Production and Production as Consumption; Chapter 10: Creating Palate Geographies; Chapter 11: Consuming Burmese Teak; Chapter 12: Space for Change or Changing Spaces

Dr Michael K. Goodman is Lecturer in Geography, King's College London, David Goodman is Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA and Michael Redclift is Professor of International Environmental Policy at King's College London, UK