Reflections About the Commerce and Consumption In Perspective of The Human Geography

Abstract

Studies on the geography of trade and consumption are slowly beginning in geographic science from the 1950s and 1960s. This fact is observed, especially in Fracophone geography surveys from the Sporck, Belgium, Delobez and Beaujeau-Garnier investigations in France.As well, by the Anglo-Saxon geography with studies of Brian J. Berry. In this sense, this article aims to understand the geography of commerce and consumption from a perspective of human geography through the geographic currents: new geography, critical, cultural and poststructuralist. The article has a theoretical-epistemological character. At times, even with the epistemological divisions, it starts from the idea that there is a "entanglement" of conceptions that, in a way, was organized in the attempt to have a more comprehensive and globalizing view of the geography of commerce and consumption in the society of consumer culture. It is not necessarily a study of the historical course, however, to observe some temporal cuts considered relevant for the understanding of the theoretical and methodological assumptions that involve this geographical field. Finally, the article in its bulge expresses the mismatch of temporalities, the counterpoints between the traditional and the (post) modern, the continuities and discontinuities of urban and metropolitan space.