Tales of the Unexpected: Exploring Car Boot Sales as Marginal Spaces of Contemporary Consumption

摘要: Marginal and/or resistant consumption practices have been neglected in current geographical debates on and retailing. This has resulted partial skewed theorizations of exchange within contemporary consumption. Consumption spaces such as car boot sales represent sites which the conventions marketplace are suspended or abandoned, replaced by forms sourcing, commodity circulation, transaction codes, pricing mechanisms value quite different from those typify more conventional retail malls department stores. Drawing anthropological literature traditional peasant markets, we argue that sale is socially, culturally geographically embedded emphasize intrinsic importance fun sociality to activities. offer both some important clues into potential for rethinking dynamics, notably with respect our understandings value, intriguing possibilities consumer politics.