Course Description |
This module is designed to introduce key issues of consumption and its geographies. It explores how everyday mundane consumption affects people’s identity and built environment. The module also seeks to examine important issues including moral and ethical consumption as well as the growth of credit society and over-consumption. The module’s focus on consumption in geography is therefore not only concerned with consumption of goods but also consumption of financial products and the ripple effects these have on societies and economies at different scales, from local to global
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