Modes of Shopping Constituting a Local Street: A video-ethnography of shopping as a practice
Aslan, Devrim Umut LU
(2019)
ESA 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association
- Abstract
- In the last decades spatiotemporal manifestations of shopping are changed radically in conjunction with proliferation of car usage, internationalization of retail, and establishment of out-of-town malls. The social, cultural, and economic backgrounds of this axis alteration and its implication to the city life have been discussed thoroughly. However, the main empirical focus laid mostly on the mainstream and spectacular geographies of shopping. There is little literature on how shopping is enacted in “other” shopping geographies, particularly on local shopping streets.
Södergatan, established as the main street of a working-class district in Helsingborg, Sweden, after going through modernization phases, today it mostly hosts... (More) - In the last decades spatiotemporal manifestations of shopping are changed radically in conjunction with proliferation of car usage, internationalization of retail, and establishment of out-of-town malls. The social, cultural, and economic backgrounds of this axis alteration and its implication to the city life have been discussed thoroughly. However, the main empirical focus laid mostly on the mainstream and spectacular geographies of shopping. There is little literature on how shopping is enacted in “other” shopping geographies, particularly on local shopping streets.
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. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/5c746c9c-82a4-40a4-bed8-bdec5e04c610
- author
- Aslan, Devrim Umut
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Shopping, Shopping street, Practice theory, Video ethnography
- conference name
- ESA 14th Conference of the <br/>European Sociological Association
- conference location
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- conference dates
- 2019-08-20 - 2019-08-23
- project
- Praxitopia: How shopping makes a street vibrant
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 5c746c9c-82a4-40a4-bed8-bdec5e04c610
- alternative location
- https://www.conftool.pro/esa2019/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=2017&form_tracks=9
- date added to LUP
- 2019-09-09 10:42:19
- date last changed
- 2019-09-09 12:33:54
@misc{5c746c9c-82a4-40a4-bed8-bdec5e04c610,
abstract = {{In the last decades spatiotemporal manifestations of shopping are changed radically in conjunction with proliferation of car usage, internationalization of retail, and establishment of out-of-town malls. The social, cultural, and economic backgrounds of this axis alteration and its implication to the city life have been discussed thoroughly. However, the main empirical focus laid mostly on the mainstream and spectacular geographies of shopping. There is little literature on how shopping is enacted in “other” shopping geographies, particularly on local shopping streets.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.}},
author = {{Aslan, Devrim Umut}},
keywords = {{Shopping; Shopping street; Practice theory; Video ethnography}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Modes of Shopping Constituting a Local Street: A video-ethnography of shopping as a practice}},
url = {{https://www.conftool.pro/esa2019/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=2017&form_tracks=9}},
year = {{2019}},
}