Adventures, auctions and aspirations: Illuminating shifts, tensions and contradictions in consumers' leisure shopping experiences/ Kristina Backstrom
Material type: TextSeries: The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research ; Volume23 , no 1.Oxfordshire: Taylor and Francis 2013Content type:- text
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- 09593969
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Journal Article | Main Library - Special Collections | HF5429 INT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Vol 23,no 1.pages 65-87 | SP17793 | Not for loan | For In-house use only |
Drawing upon the work of Simmel ([1907–1911] 1971) and other socioculturally oriented theoreticians (e.g. Campbell 1987; Thompson et al. 1994), this paper illuminates the composite and dynamic character of leisure shopping. Using three overarching themes – the adventure, the auction and the aspiration – the paper illustrates that leisure shopping experiences comprise a synthesis of opposites, involving dynamic shifts between for example spontaneity and control, delight and disappointment, dreams and fantasies as well as rational calculations and purposive planning. Leisure shopping is thus described as a form of rational recreation (Lash and Urry 2002), where consumers seek pleasure in highly rationalized ways.
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