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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"spaces of consumption"”.
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Re-constructing inner cityscapes as spaces of consumption
… re-present cityscapes in disadvantaged areas as spaces for leisure and tourism consumption to desired target markets, especially higherspending visitors; b) To explain the processes that refashion inner cityscapes as 'ethnic cultural quarters', with critical examination of the effects on social …
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A part of community or apart from community? Young people's geographies in mixed community developments
… people, there has been no specific examination of young people's experiences of living in such communities. Through a mixed methods exploration of two new mixed communities in Northamptonshire, the social and spatial lives of young people aged 11-16 have been explored to see what affect living …
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Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
The production style of English actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree embodied the mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. Producing spectacular Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English bourgeois audiences at the turn of the century, Tree filled his stage with …
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The places, power, and politics of Uganda’s secondhand clothing industry
… accompanied by the rapid implementation of neoliberal policy directives. Bound with and driving this dramatic urban growth, Uganda’s second hand clothing industry is a dynamic, power-laden, and hotly debated trade. In 2015, Uganda alone imported 1,261 tons of worn clothing, worth nearly …
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Our Biometric Future: The Social Construction of an Emerging Information Technology
… investigates the social and cultural dimensions of new information technologies known as biometrics. Biometrics are designed to generate digital readings of the body as a means of identifying individuals, enlisting a number of communication technologies, including photography, video, and computer …
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Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India
… urban India structure the making/ unmaking of gendered identities for young men in a working class, scheduled caste neighborhood in the western Indian city of Pune. Present day Pune, an aspiring metropolis, presents a complex socio-spatial intersection of neoliberal processes and peculiar …
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Constructing global Amman: petrodollars, identity, and the built environment in the early twenty-first century
This study investigates the influences of capital flows, particularly petrodollars from the Gulf states, to Amman in the early twenty-first century on the city’s urban built environment. The study is carried out through an in-depth analysis of three case studies of contemporary megaprojects in …