Consumption

This chapter examines consumption as a process that encompasses practices of acquisition, use and divestment. It demonstrates how consumption in material and online mediums requires and produces geographies, geographies which extend from the individual and their household to the global. Drawing on notions of spatiality, sociality and subjectivity, the chapter reveals how access to and experiences of consumption are uneven, recognising that the manifestation and impacts of consumption at various scales extend beyond what we typically label as the economic realm.