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Displacement, Consumption, and Identity

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  • P Crang

    (Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP, England)

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Increasingly attention is being paid to the ways in which consumption is a geographically constituted process. In this paper the notion of ‘displacement’ is used to reflect on these constitutive geographies, and in particular as a way of understanding contemporary consumption neither as a homogenising nor a locally bounded social activity. Two aspects of the geographies of displacement within consuming worlds are highlighted: the representations of origins, travels, and destinations—or geographical knowledges—that surround and in part comprise commodities; and the juxtapositional character of the arenas in which consumption takes and makes place. These geographies are illustrated and critically analysed through examples of commodities that deploy representations of the ‘global’, the ‘ethnic’, and the ‘hospitable’.

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  • P Crang, 1996. "Displacement, Consumption, and Identity," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 28(1), pages 47-67, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:28:y:1996:i:1:p:47-67
    DOI: 10.1068/a280047
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    1. Rioux, Sébastien, 2014. "Food quality and the circulation time of commodities: lessons from the British milk trade 1845–1914," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 114-121.
    2. Simon R. Bush, 2010. "Governing ‘Spaces Of Interaction’ For Sustainable Fisheries," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 101(3), pages 305-319, July.

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