Consumption spaces within globalization: "Super size me" moving images in the teaching of school geography

Abstract

At present the reconfiguration and re-signification of traditional eating habits are not only connected to the food production process but also to its adaptation to certain globalized consumption and socialization forms [fast food], which are typical of urban life. This proposal was developed together with the students of a UNICEN-dependant secondary school, Colegio Nacional Ernesto Sabato. This paper is about the social consumption space, and it makes use of Human Sciences qualitative perspective to perform an analysis and interpretation in school geography. The film "Super Size Me" was shown and used as a didactic strategy. The complex relation between consumption, territory and society were explored within the current context of local and global growing social consumption practices. This paper is a qualitative approach, from moving visual images, to consumers'behavior, to their motivations and to their consuming habits within urban recreation and food consumption spaces