Spaces of Consumption in Environmental History.
Consumption has emerged as an important historical subject, with most scholars explaining it as a vehicle for therapeutic regeneration, community formation, or economic policy. This work all but ignores how consumption begins with changes to the material world, to physical nature. While environmenta...
| Published in: | History & Theory Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 94 - 111 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2003
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