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Interfusions: Consumption, Identity and the Practices and Power Relations of Everyday Life

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  • A Pred

    (Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA)

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Consumption involves knowledge acquisition and act-ual usage—not simply shopping and purchasing—and therefore is intricately bound up with the practices, power relations, and discourses of everyday life. Widely accepted observations about the fluidity and multiple dimensions of identity do not adequately link situated practices with the repeated (re)constitution and destabilization of identity elements. Moreover, it is not only through the use of purchased goods to produce individual and collective difference that consumption and identity are connected. Circumstances in contemporary commodity societies demand that critical human geographical studies of consumption and identity unconventionally couple ethnography and political economy, that the practices of ‘safe’ geography and ‘safe’ representation be forsaken.

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  • A Pred, 1996. "Interfusions: Consumption, Identity and the Practices and Power Relations of Everyday Life," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 28(1), pages 11-24, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:28:y:1996:i:1:p:11-24
    DOI: 10.1068/a280011
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    1. Iosifidi, Maria, 2016. "Environmental awareness, consumption, and labor supply: Empirical evidence from household survey data," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 1-11.

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