Place, Modernity, and the Consumer′s World: Relational Framework for Geographical Analysis - Hardcover

Sack

 
9780801843365: Place, Modernity, and the Consumer′s World: Relational Framework for Geographical Analysis
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801843367 ISBN 13: 9780801843365
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Explores the phenomenon of marketing places as consumer goods: retail stores made up to look like the Australian outback; magazine ads for tourism; staged "native rituals" on guided tours; and the like. Sack (geography and integrated liberal studies, U. of Wisconsin) constructs a geographical basis for judging such practices. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Review

"The product of a powerful and subtle intellect, at its best in ethical and moral explorations... For any reader who is prepared for a lengthy philosophical treatise that informs the next trip to the supermarket, this book is worthwhile." -- Geographical Review

Synopsis

Explores the phenomenon of marketing places as consumer goods: retail stores made up to look like the Australian outback; magazine ads for tourism; staged "native rituals" on guided tours; and the like. Sack (geography and integrated liberal studies, U. of Wisconsin) constructs a geographical basis

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Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801843367
ISBN 13 
9780801843365
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
352