GEOG 2200 Lecture 3: Week 3 Lecture 1 GEOG 2200 2013 Notes.docx
5 Jun 2014
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Week 3 lecture 1: consumption and beyond: connections through consumption and. We are all connected in a complex web of relations as consumers, as workers, as citizens of states and even as capitalists (through our investments in the market). We all are part of the economic world. While we operate at different scales in different ways, as consumers we truly operate at the global scale (and not necessarily out of choice either). As i have said before, read the label of the clothing that you consider buying. Behind each such label lies a complex story that could and often does span continents. Consumption can be defined as those processes involved in the sale, purchase and use of commodities (mansvelt 2005:6). Therefore we are not talking about the manufacturing process per se. Consumption is the end goal of production; or, more accurately, it is the other side of the coin to the manufacturing or production process.
