Devrim Umut Aslan
Lärare
Modes of Shopping Constituting a Local Street: A video-ethnography of shopping as a practice
Författare
Summary, in English
Södergatan, established as the main street of a working-class district in Helsingborg, Sweden, after going through modernization phases, today it mostly hosts so-called migrant entrepreneurships, service-based premises, and grocery stores. This study examines the major modes of shopping on this local shopping street in order to understand how shopping geographies outside of mainstream ensure their relevance. It contributes to the literature on shopping geographies from a cultural perspective, particularly on the co-constitutive interrelation between enactments of shopping and arrangements of shopping places. While doing this, the study engages in “practice theory”, which supplies a profound conceptual vocabulary and dynamic epistemological gaze for concentrating on shopping as the main analytical unit. The major method employed in the research is video-ethnography, due to its capability to synchronically appreciate enactments of shopping, shoppers’ reflections, the sensory and material environment of the street, and the movement within.
The research shows that there are some major place-specific modes of shopping that are enacted in the street and in the district, and these modes of shopping, bundling with each other, materially and sensorially co-constitute the street into a meaningful, integral and convivial part of the city.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap
- Avdelningen för modevetenskap
Publiceringsår
2019
Språk
Engelska
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag: abstract
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- Shopping
- Shopping street
- Practice theory
- Video ethnography
Conference name
ESA 14th Conference of the <br/>European Sociological Association
Conference date
2019-08-20 - 2019-08-23
Conference place
Manchester, United Kingdom
Status
Published
Projekt
- Praxitopia: How shopping makes a street vibrant