“Consumption”

Girke, Felix

doi:10.1086/660166

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“…A rich anthropological history examines everyday consumptive acts as part of macroscale capitalist development, but it also mobilizes neoliberal ideologies that undermine consumption's very important role of social construction (Graeber 2011). By holistically understanding logics of "local consumptionscapes" (Ger and Belk 1996), values emerge that underscore their relevance to social identity-making practices (Friedman 2005).…”

Section: Class Mobility and Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consumption is a way people articulate social values within larger economic systems, even when consumption is limited by sociomaterial constraints (Carrier 2012a(Carrier , 2012b. Whether "passive victims" (MacKay 1997, 6) or "active, creative, or critical" agents (Hebdige 1979, 3), Graeber (2011) notes that people are incorrectly depicted as enveloped by their engagement in the monolithic, Western notion of consumption. India's narrative of water consumption is not only about the development of water access and distribution but likewise about the social construction of contemporary India through its water.…”

Section: Class Mobility and Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Conspicuous reserves: Ideologies of water consumption and the performance of class

O’Leary

2019

Economic Anthropology

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Water has multiple values across and within cultures—transforming it from basic substance to a vehicle of cultural identity. Water scarcity can be imposed by hydrological or by social exclusion; each reinforces the other. Yet, even under scarcity, hierarchies are not immutable. People use myriad tools to increase their share of water, including, at times, the expenditure of more water. In water‐scarce informal settlements and tenements in Delhi, India, people's conspicuous use of water not only increases their social status and economic power but also generates additional access to water. This article argues that broader transformations of urban Indian culture, such as its increased commitment to middle classness, are demonstrated through the conspicuous consumption of water as a form of economic agency. Economic anthropology's theories of consumption are valuable frameworks to challenge the way water expenditures are modeled and hierarchies are upheld.

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Section: Class Mobility and Consumptionmentioning

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Section: Class Mobility and Consumptionmentioning

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Conspicuous reserves: Ideologies of water consumption and the performance of class

O’Leary

2019

Economic Anthropology

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“…However, while a culture of "consumerism" as such is an old phenomenon, global mass consumption, in its contemporary form, is often seen as a key feature of late-twentieth-century globalization in the form of ever-expanding flows of cultural mass imageries and mass commodities (see Slater 1997 for a thorough analysis). There is a broad body of anthropological literature dealing with novel ways of understanding the role and meaning of consumption in the contemporary world (Appadurai 1988;Friedman 1994;Douglas and Isherwood 1996;Miles 1998;Jackson 1999Jackson , 2004Walsh 2003;Graeber 2011). As these analyses emphasize, global imageries of consumption are codified, transformed and absorbed in numerous ways in different cultural contexts.…”

Section: The Power Of Conspicuous Consumptionmentioning

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Moralities, Money and Extractive Capitalism

Strønen

2017

Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela

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Venezuelans know the price of everything and the value of nothingVenezuelan actor and intellectual Julio Motta, cited in Strønen and Waerness (2007) Caracas, spring 2011: I was sitting on a tall bar chair in a little DVD and CD stall located in a small and worn-down basement shopping mall close to La Hoyada, in downtown Caracas. I was doing an interview with Ricardo, a family man in his 30s from 23 de Enero, and a newly elected vocero (spokesperson) for the communal council in his street. He was the owner of the stall, and I was interviewing him as passing customers stopped for a peek, to purchase something or for a chat. Ricardo had recently been elected vocero for the Committee for Ideology. At the meetings I had attended in his community, he was always trying to cut through the quarrels, urging people to come to their senses, stop fighting and rather think about the collective good. The community was in the midst of finalizing housing projects that would benefit around 20 families. This was a project that had been going on for a long time, causing a lot of rifts, quarrels and dirty maneuvers among the neighbors. Now, the money seemed to be on its way, and with some secret horse-trading and heated public arguments, the matter of who would be benefiting from it was settled. However, it had been a long process. Allegations of robbery, fraud and ulterior motives had stirred tempers and caused the consolidation of two factions in the community competing to gain control over the process. Ricardo was frustrated about his community and the way people behaved:

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“…Graeber ) y del consumo en Occidente (cf. Graeber ), que genera modos de actuar. Al mismo tiempo, como recuerda Collins () la antropología hace mucho tiempo entendió que los mercados laborales están socialmente construidos, y profundamente arraigados a las instituciones y prácticas locales .…”

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Trabajar, Pedir, Vender. El Caso de los Vendedores Ambulantes en Trenes de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Perelman

2013

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen Este artículo se basa en el trabajo de campo con enfoque etnográfico que desarrollo con vendedores ambulantes en trenes de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Me concentro en cómo los actores se presentan y realizan diferentes performances para poder vender sus productos. Mi argumento es que estas diferencias están basadas en los discursos sociales sobre la pobreza (legítima e ilegítima) y sobre el trabajo, pero que estos discursos y prácticas son reinterpretadas por las personas de carne y hueso. Ello ocurre durante las interacciones entre los vendedores, los pasajeros y otros actores presentes en el trayecto del ferrocarril y a partir de las trayectorias de los vendedores. El artículo busca contribuir a la comprensión de la forma en que miles de personas se ganan la vida realizando actividades localizadas en una zona gris entre el trabajo y el no trabajo, entre la legalidad y la ilegalidad, legitimidad e ilegitimidad.

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“Consumption”

Cited by 142 publications

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Conspicuous reserves: Ideologies of water consumption and the performance of class

Conspicuous reserves: Ideologies of water consumption and the performance of class

Moralities, Money and Extractive Capitalism

Trabajar, Pedir, Vender. El Caso de los Vendedores Ambulantes en Trenes de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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