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- Aslan, Devrim Umut, et al.
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Att utforska detaljhandels gränser i Helsingborgsregionen
- 2015
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Ingår i: Den forskande staden : 8 essäer om forskning, kultur och näringsliv i Helsingborg - 8 essäer om forskning, kultur och näringsliv i Helsingborg. ; , s. 31-44
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Aslan, Devrim Umut
(författare)
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How do consumers make the cultural geography of a 'low-end' street? : The case of Sodergatan: a high street at the urban margins
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research examines the practices of consumers that are made possible by a 'low-end' street, and how these shopping practices in turn shape and maintain a high street at the urban margins. It locates itself within the academic inquiries of cultural geographies of retail.Södergatan is the field of the study, the main shopping street in the stigmatized southern part of city of Helsingborg in Sweden, which was first established as a working-class neighborhood. Never enjoyed being a legitimate part of the commercial city center, the street has further been excluded recently due to contemporary retail restructuring. Today it mostly hosts so called immigrant entrepreneurships, service-based premises and convenience stores. Södergatan is a typical neighborhood commercial street, which can be found in almost any city. In this sense, the research takes the mission of shedding light to consumer dynamics of long-neglected, unglamorous, yet indispensible, organic parts of urban life.The study theoretically draws upon “practice theory”, that has been proven to supply a solid framework in exploring people’s everyday shopping activities. The major method employed will be “video-ethnography” because of its capability to synchronically appreciate consumer practices, consumer reflections and the material environment of the street.
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- Aslan, Devrim Umut, et al.
(författare)
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Second-hand values and the production of ethical urban markets
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We are seeing today an increased interest in ethics, the environment, and social responsibility at the same time as the individual is expected, in different ways, to realize him-/herself through consumption. These interests coincide with the establishment of ethical markets for re-use and second-hand. In this paper we investigate and map out the ethical shopping spaces in Helsingborg, and how these retail spaces are co-created by consumers, retailers and city planners. Helsingborg is a regional center in the south of Sweden. Challenged by recent retail reconstruction at the global and national scale, the city’s commercial center is struggling in maintaining its position against out-of-town shopping malls and growing e-commerce. The paper aims to describe and analyse how re-use and second-hand are organised. In retail planning, re-use is a partly problematic business that generates different types of value for a place. Which values are expressed in various re-use and second-hand practices? How are these values transformed into strategies in retail planning? The paper is based on empirical data gathered in the process of producing a digital map for ‘environment-friendly’ good assortment and shops in Helsingborg, as well as a survey conducted among retailers and in-depth interviews with city planners.
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