Titlebook: Lived Experiences of Public Consumption; Encounters with Valu Daniel Thomas Cook Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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The Play of Authenticity in Thai Handicraft Marketsin the multiple meanings that play suggests — a gay distraction, a past-time without consequences, a representation of the absent, a plot in the service of greed or envy. Through amusement, ritual, or trickery, handicraft markets are spaces of performance — enacted dramas staged, blocked, and riddle

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Tradition, Adventure, and Pleasure in Santiago, Chile’s Informal Marketsment store, and big box grocery chain sector (Moulián, 1997, 1998; Tórche, 1998; Tironi, 2002; Márquez, 2003; Dammert, 2004). Yet the above exchange in a Santiago, Chile neighborhood street market underscores the complex social dynamics of consumption in alternative settings missed in scholarly acco

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‘Attention, Shoppers — Family Being Constructed on Aisle Six!’: Grocery Shopping and the Accomplishm do the shopping. Noticing a billboard ad for a store’s fresh produce on the way to get enough gas to drive to that store. Remembering a newscast about the dangers of food additives. Placing an apple from New Zealand in the cart. Negotiating snack purchases with the oldest of the kids. Allowing a yo

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Spreading Like a Dis/ease?: Afro-Jamaican Higglers and the Dynamics of Race/Color, Class and Genderd market activities in each of these economies vary often privileging formal markets, as more ‘legitimate,’ over informal markets. This essay examines the meanings of one particular market and market activity — higglering — in the informal economy of Jamaica. Higglering is a Jamaican term that denot

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Framing a Fair Trade Life: Tensions in the Fair Trade Marketplace Chicago, IL. Pauline Tiffen, author, activist, and founding member of the North American Fair Trade Alliance, gave the keynote address and explained how ‘the market’ should be reframed as a place where people come to interact and actively make decisions:

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The Mall and the Street: Practices of Public Consumption in Mumbais glittering new supermarkets and shopping malls and the consumption possibilities offered within them herald Mumbai’s membership into an elite group of ‘world class cities.’ Malls have also produced a euphoria among business and political elites, as well as some journalists, who see them as signali