Bargaining, learning and control: production of consumption spaces in post-socialist context
Abstract: Post-socialist economies that had been considered as markets of high growth potential by retailers grew increasingly contested during the last decade. The growth and restructuring in the retail sector resulted in a deeper embedding into global flows of goods, increasingly diverse consumption spaces, and changing socio-spatial practices. At the same time, the shifts and turns in the discourses over consumption and citizenship reflected the variety of social interests related to this issue and also the rise of new agents challenging major retailers’ dominance. This paper is focused on various interconnected strategies and practices – those of producers, retailers, property developers, local political elites and consumers – that are “at work” in post-socialist countries, producing new landscapes of shopping and driving discourses over consumption through which, individual and collective identities are constructed. Corporate strategies of retailers, such as their deeper embedding into
- Alternative title
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Feilschen, Lernen, Kontrolle: Entwicklung von Konsumräumen in einem postsozialistischen Kontext
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
In: Europa Regional ; 20 (2014) 1 ; 42-54
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2014
- Creator
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Nagy, Erika
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-419070
- Rights
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:33 AM CEST
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Associated
- Nagy, Erika
Time of origin
- 2014
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