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Thrifting: Relating To Places, Second-Hand Practices, And Ethical Considerations: A Sensuous Study Of Contemporary Second-Hand Consumption In The Stockholm Municipality
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Anthropology.
2023 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This thesis engages with the multifaceted socio-material entanglements of thrifting. Its purpose is to focus on how people attach meaning to thrifting, how they relate to thrifted items, and how different second-hand places affect the overall experience of thrifting. It explores the thrifting practice around the Stockholm municipality. Second-hand materials are approached with a sensuous method in order to understand their significance in different spatiotemporal settings. The settings involve the physical thrifting places and items that have been thrifted in the past, thus situating them away from second-hand stores. It focuses on how places affect the thrifting practice and how different material elements affect interlocutors' perceptions. There is an unconscious and conscious classification of socio-material entanglements in regard to items and spaces. This thesis also contemplates the socioeconomic situations involved in the districts and how that affects the perception of different stores. Additionally, it examines research participants' ethical considerations and abstractions regarding sustainability and consumerism attached to the thrifting experience.

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2023. , p. 81
Keywords [en]
Thrifting, second-hand, consumption, sustainability, materiality, reuse, sensuous ethnography, infrastructure.
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Social Anthropology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-221811OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-221811DiVA, id: diva2:1802121
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Available from: 2023-10-18 Created: 2023-10-03 Last updated: 2023-10-18Bibliographically approved

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