Consuming Geographies

Taylor & Francis

The 'cultural turn' has brought identity politics and issues of consumption to the fore in geography . By exploring geographies of food consumption, Bell and Valentine examine how we all think place and identity through food. We are where we eat. > \nFood 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.\nDrawing 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 - w.