Beyond economics
expressive appropriations of contemporary materialistic culture
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https://doi.org/10.4000/cp.9022Keywords:
objects, consumption, appropriations, trajectoriesAbstract
This paper presents a brief analysis of two recent major theoretical contributions to the field of Consumption Studies. The main objective is to encourage and contribute to the debate about contemporary consumption from an innovative perspective that highlights its practices as potentially creative, expressive and revealing of identity strategies in the present context.
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