Life Phases, Mobility and Consumption
Subtitle: an Ethnography of Shopping Routes
By: Helene Brembeck, Niklas Hansson, Michèle Lalanne, Jean-Sébastien Vayre
Contributors: Hansson, Niklas, author; Lalanne, Michèle, author; Vayre, Jean-Sébastien, author
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781472445339
Subjects: Child consumers; Consumer behavior; Older consumers; Young consumers; Enfants consommateurs; Consommateurs; Comportement; Consommateurs âgés; Jeunes consommateurs; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Popular Culture
Description: The very routines of our daily life are to a great extent the expression of our vulnerability and dependence on incredibly wide and complex networks and socio-technical systems. Following people's routes in the city, makes visible the differentially distributed capacities and potentials for mobility. In today's consumer society, shopping is the kind of mundane and routine mobility that we all engage in. Yet having a first child or growing old radically changes people's logistical habits as consumers, what the authors of this book call consumer logistics; moving from home to the store and back home again with recent purchases. Depending on the ages and number of children in the family and the condition of one's body (physical health and strength), going shopping requires quite different settings and gear. Exploring consumer mobility through the lens of life phase and age will deepen the understanding of hitherto under-researched aspects of the ageing process, and of mobility, knowledge that is of vital importance for societies striving for sustainable mobility and sustainable cities.
Notes: Significant Aspects of Consumers' Emotional Expenditure and Physical Investment in Relation to Infrastructures and Means of Transportation.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Shopping Routesand Being a Consumer on the Move with Recent Purchases; From Technical to Spatial Solidarity; Consumers in Motion and Environmental Affordances; Mobility as Differently Distributed Resource; Connecting Mobility and Life Phase; Positioning Life Phase and Age; Families, Consumption and Mobility: a Family Life Phase Perspective; The Elderly, Consumption and Mobility; Section 1.2: Methodology and Qualitative Data; Steps in the Survey Approach; Carrying out the Survey.; title: Presentation of Findings: Projects and Passages2 Families; Section 2.1: Projects; Children's Ambivalent Power and Parental Dispositions towards Shopping Trips; Familial Shopping Rhythms and Multi-temporal Adjustments; Shopping Equipment, Carrying Devices and Means of Mobility: Families' Consumer Tools at the Market; Pushchairs, Bags and Hooks: Familial Tools for Carrying Children and Purchases; Section 2.2: Passages; Residential Location and Dispersed and Integrated Logistics in the Construction of Shopping Passages.; title: Motorized Families with RecentPurchases: Spatially DispersedLogistics PassagesMobility Freedom and Convenience: Carrying Groceries from the Car; Safe Rides: Parental Work while Shopping; Cars Enrolled in Mundane Shopping Errands: from Communicative Markers to Uncool Shopping Tools; Spatially Integrated Logistics Passages: Walking to the Market; Walkable Neighbourhoods and Sociality when Shopping with a Pushchair; Inconveniences of Going Shopping with Pushchairs: When Objects Turned Equipped Ambulation into Immobility.; title: The Inconvenience of Public Transport: Moralities of Sociotechnical Systems?Managing Parental Responsibilities on a Bike: Velomobile Shopping Passages; 3 Elderly; Section 3.1: Projects; Planning the Supply/Mapping the Route; Time Space; A Social Space; The Waste Container: Hub between Consumer Logistics and Waste Logistics; The Calendar and the Shopping List; Money; Shoes; Bags; Memories, Norms and Values; Assembling the Cluster; Ready to Leave; Section 3.2: Passages; Appropriating the Pavement/Walking with Hervé; title: Infrastructure Urban Design as a Framework for Action: Pedestrian Crossings, Traffic Lights and BollardsThe Square: Makes Socializing Possible; Driving; Biking; Going by Bus; Passing Through the Shop; Valuation Techniques; Containers in a Situation of Shopping; Moving Back Home; Back Home; Ageing and Motility; 4 Conclusion; A Broader Perspective on Mundane Consumption: Consumer Logistics and Actor-network Theory; Location, Residential Area and Mobility Access/Capital/Motility; Consumer Equipment for Extending Carrying and Calculating Capacities.