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Market Detachment

Breaking Social Ties in Economic Settings
Langbeschreibung
While the dynamics of market attachments have been extensively analyzed, the implied other to this - market detachments - have not. This book addresses this imbalance and investigates economies of detachment or the processes whereby various elements or relations in markets are removed or severed.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction - Letting go: economies of detachment 1. Allowing for detachment processes in market innovation. The case of short food supply chains 2. Market research as ascetic detachment: product testing in a German market test town 3. Fashionable detachments: wardrobes, bodies and the desire to let go 4. Minimalism and lightweight backpacking in France: a material culture of detachment 5. Detachment as a privilege: industry participation at TV programming and distribution marketplaces 6. Can energy savings certificates help in boiler scrappage programs? Exploring the market agencing of a detachment policy 7. Detaching from plastic packaging: reconfiguring material responsibilities
Helene Brembeck is Senior Professor in Ethnology, and previous Director of the Center for Consumer Science at Gothenburg Research Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research areas are aspects of consumer culture and consumption from a cultural perspective. She has been a project manager of several large projects and published extensively in this field. Among other things, she was Editor of the special issue of Consumption, Markets & Culture, "Moving Consumption" together with Franck Cochoy and Johanna Moisander (2014) and contributed to the anthology Overwhelmed by Overflows? edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Orvar Löfgren (2019).
ISBN-13:
9781000550245
Veröffentl:
2022
Seiten:
124
Autor:
Helene Brembeck
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
0 - No protection
Sprache:
Englisch

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