Praxitopia : How shopping makes a street vibrant
Praxitopia : Hur shopping gör en gata levande
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Summary, in English
The study draws on practice theory and focuses on shopping as the main unit. The analysis is built on a sensitivity to the interrelationships existing between social practices and place, emerging from the epistemic positioning resulting from the identification of 'modes of practices'. In order to grasp the enmeshed character of shopping, which is complicated by cultural, spatial, temporal, material, and sensorial layers, video ethnography was employed as the primary research collection method, in combination with go-along interviews, observation and mental-mapping.
The research reveals five major modes of shopping practice which jointly represent a typology for understanding shopping in terms of being enacted in the street; i.e. convenience shopping, social shopping, on-the-side shopping, alternative shopping, and budget shopping. This thesis also shows that the bundling of these modes of shopping shapes the street into a vibrant part of the city by interrelating with the shopping street’s sensomaterial and spatiotemporal dimensions in complex and multifaceted directions. Consequently, the local shopping street is conceptualized as a praxitopia, a place co-constituted through social practices.
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Publishing year
2021-05-26
Language
English
Full text
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Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University
Topic
- Other Social Sciences
Keywords
- Shopping
- Consumption
- Place
- Cities
- Practice Theory
- Video Ethnography
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-821-4
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-822-1
Defence date
24 June 2021
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Online, Zoom link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/64859890756?
Opponent
- Sarah Pink (Professor)