Consumo y territorio: antecedentes teóricos para el estudio de nuevas formas de segregación socioespacial

Abstract

Nowadays principles such as individualism, hedonism and consumerism have been ratified by consumer society and

postmodernism’s interpretation of cultural change. Thus consumption has gained importance in a global society context, with

increasing interaction levels at planetary scale and new ways of social and territorial segregation. Key elements in wich

relation between consumption and territory appears submitted in this paper are postmodern interpretation of reality, mass

culture as well as consumer society. Discussion trys to join in an every time dynamic debate in Geography