Cultural Geography
empirical evidence, this work demonstrates how the strategies and practices of even large firms are shaped by (and embedded with ...
different: that the rise (and especially the early 1990s recovery) of the Valley was really a story about a finely articulated l ...
here to the work on multinational corporations and the global economy, where most of us still labour under ridiculously simple-m ...
sub-discipline in the last ten or fifteen years’ (2000a: 689). He adds, ‘there is no doubt that the cultural turn saved economic ...
19 While Florida’s use of a performative metaphor such as ‘talent’ may be unconscious, others have more consciously adopted a pe ...
Grabher, G. (1993) ‘The weakness of strong ties: the lock-in of regional development in the Ruhr area’, in G. Grabher (ed.) The ...
Schoenberger, E. (2000) ‘The management of time and space’, in G.L. Clark, M.P. Feldman and M.S. Gertler (eds) The Oxford Handbo ...
The literature on consumption has grown enormously over the past 15 years, now constitut- ing a recognized subdiscipline within ...
Finally, it is partly through the study of consumption that we have come to better under- stand the role of culture in the const ...
anthropology in which the sharing of goods and meanings in consumption is fundamental to moulding the material and cultural form ...
corporations over the taste forming processes which generated demand for their goods. Indeed, the critical stalemate that stymie ...
technically, labour is denied ownership of the means of production; under conditions of exploita- tion(the extraction of surplus ...
production, exemplified by the Fordist flow-past assembly line with its intensive technical divi- sion of labour, high productiv ...
analyses of consumption as an aspect of cultural reproduction. Firstly, the various schools of semiotics, drawing on the model o ...
socially central? All three of the previously mentioned approaches would point to quantita- tive and qualitative shifts over the ...
As often noted (for example, Miller, 1987), this argument is not a million miles away from much of Bourdieu’s (1984), in which b ...
GOING SHOPPING Shopping and retailing both exemplify the different variations of postmodern thought and have constituted the mos ...
owning, but also in looking and browsing, watching other consumers and moving through sign worlds, we imaginatively try on ident ...
homogenized global culture took the form of debates over Americanization during much of the twentieth century. America seemed to ...
CULTURES OF CONSUMPTION 159 is the ethical framework evolved by Sen and Nussbaum (Sen, 1985; 1987) which seeks to understand dev ...
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