Consuming Geographies: A Review Essay

Crang, Philip; Malbon, Ben; Maffesoli, Michel; Smith, Don C; Miller, Daniel; Wrigley, Neil; Lowe, Michelle

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“…In recent years there have been growing attempts by economic, cultural and social geographers to reconceptualize their subdisciplines and embrace the 'de-differentiation of economy and culture' (Crang & Malbon 1996;Amin & Thrift 2000;Sayer 2000). Of particular relevance here is the rise of approaches that attempt to account for both the material condition and speci c experience of individuals, while at the same time situating the individual within political and economic structures of power, con ict and resistance (Ateljevic 2000).…”

Section: Culture and Consumptionmentioning

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Tourism, economic development and the global-local nexus: Theory embracing complexity

Milne¹,

Ateljević²

2001

Tourism Geographies

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In this paper we review the complex links that exist between the tourism industry and processes of economic development. A brief overview of the industry's economic role at the international and national scale leads us into a discussion of local and regional involvement in the tourism industry. We emphasize the need to develop a more rigorous understanding of the evolving tourism industry and how it in uences processes of local economic development. Following a review of the major theoretical frameworks that have been applied to help us understand these processes, we highlight the ways in which current attempts to understand the links between tourism and economic development are embracing the complexity of the industry and its in uence on everyday lives. We advocate 'new' ways of seeing and studying the economics of tourism geography, ways that re ect the cultural turn in the 'new' economic geography, and the increasing signi cance of networks and new information and communication technologies. We argue that a willingness to embrace complexity is essential if we are to unpack the 'glocal' nature of tourism development processes.

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Section: Culture and Consumptionmentioning

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Tourism, economic development and the global-local nexus: Theory embracing complexity

Milne¹,

Ateljević²

2001

Tourism Geographies

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“…The paper illustrates the role of culture in Murter as the principal regulator of the economic, yet simultaneously reveals elements and practises in which the cultural manifest as materialization of the economic (see Crang & Malbon 1996). The cultural context described here through the use of insider perspectives reveals a rationality through which social structures, politics and economy are maintained and advanced despite the last decade of political instability, upheaval and war.…”

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“…The reconceptualization of geographical subdisciplines and the embrace of 'de-differentiation of the economy and culture' (Crang & Malbon 1996;Amin & Thrift 2000;Sayer 2000) are central to the emergence of a 'new' theorization of tourism. Within ' the economic ', contemporary cultural and social geography attempts to account for both the material condition and the experience of individuals, as well as the place of the individual within Downloaded by [York University Libraries] at 01:08 20 November 2014 the structures of power and economy.…”

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“…The traditionally economic concepts of tourism entrepreneurship have been predominantly interpreted from a 'structuralist/reductionist' perspective in isolation of tourism economy. Following the argument of Crang & Malbon (1996) we examine our case study of tourism entrepreneurship, pursuing the de-differentiation between culture and economy in terms of both: (1) the cultural regulation of the economic; and (2) the 'cultural materialization of the economic' (see also du Gay 1996).…”

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Unpacking the local: A cultural analysis of tourism entrepreneurship in Murter, Croatia

Ateljević

Doorne

2003

Tourism Geographies

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In recent years, there has been a paradigmatic shift articulated by the 'cultural' turn of tourism geography. Within the cultural analysis of economic relations the embrace of complexity and diversity has become essential to broadening our understanding of tourism development processes. This paper seeks to engage with local cultural perspectives, which inform these 'new' ways of theorizing tourism. This study focuses on small-scale tourism entrepreneurship in the village of Murter in the Balkans set against the backdrop of economic transition in a post-war environment. It is argued that the role of local values is critical in the re-emergence of tourism as a key economic sector and the shaping of small enterprise culture. The analysis utilizes an 'insider' perspective as a key positioning element in the discussion.

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“…In this 'new' retail geography, traditional concerns with theorizing retail provision have been broadened to encompass consideration of shopping as a cultural activity. Here, an important in uence has been the work of those social geographers who have drawn on theories of consumption in their attempt to elucidate the way that people purchase and transform commodities in different contexts (Crang and Malbon 1996). Rejecting neo-classical models of consumer behaviour, such theories stress the negotiated nature of consumption, emphasizing its importance in the construction of identity.…”

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Consumption, exclusion and emotion: the social geographies of shopping

Williams¹,

Hubbard

Clark³

et al. 2001

Soc. Cultural Geog.

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In recent years, a productive dialogue has developed between retail geographers and those social geographers concerned with the spatiality of consumption. This has resulted in a series of accounts of shopping that emphasize notions of consumer creativity. Nonetheless, this paper argues that many of these have struggled to reconcile the meaning of shopping with an understanding of the material parameters within which consumers operate. Recognizing that this tendency has distracted from the socio-spatial inequalities evident in retailing, the paper examines how shopping rituals are embedded in social relations that discourage particular shoppers from visiting certain retail locations. Drawing on extensive and intensive data derived in Coventry (UK), the paper questions the extent to which this geography of exclusion is the product of constraint, arguing that shopping is shaped by a more complex spatiality of inclusion and (self-) exclusion. Accordingly, the paper makes the case for a social geography of shopping that pays careful attention to the emotionally laden transactions played out in particular settings.

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Consuming Geographies: A Review Essay

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Tourism, economic development and the global-local nexus: Theory embracing complexity

Tourism, economic development and the global-local nexus: Theory embracing complexity

Unpacking the local: A cultural analysis of tourism entrepreneurship in Murter, Croatia

Consumption, exclusion and emotion: the social geographies of shopping

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