Geographien des Konsums

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"I consume, therefore I am." - Consumption and its geographies refer not only to the needs of consuming people, but equally to their moral values, their ideas and desires for their own lives and not least to the question of their own self. The increasing importance of consumption for society and its individuals, their living spaces and their everyday life manifests itself spatially from local to global scale. Consumption in its economic, sociocultural and spatial dimension penetrates a multitude of subject areas that are of great interest to human geography. A consumer-geographical perspective opens up a new perspective on many familiar phenomena, encounters current social questions and thus offers a diverse field of research. The present volume "Geographies of Consumption" offers the first German-language overview of spatially-related and geographical consumption research. Based on seven focus areas, the author guides through the thematic diversity of geographies of consumption as well as their integration into the interdisciplinary field of consumption research. The development of spatially-related and geographical consumption research, the development lines of consumer society, the spaces of consumption, the connections between production and consumption, the commercial cultures within globalization as well as the consideration of identity and morality in the context of consumption are presented. Finally, a conclusion is drawn on the state of consumer-geographical research and an outlook on open research questions is given. Rosa Patzwahl is a research assistant in the Mobility and Demographic Change working group at the Geographical Institute of Ruhr University Bochum. Her research focuses are geographical consumption research as well as questions of social inequality in urban space.