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Shopdropping: Materialities, Mobilities, Creative Interventions
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Abstract This article brings together a feminist sloth, a cultural activist practice and a Human Geography student. That student, the author of this article, shop-dropped a sloth sticker to protest the discriminatory body politics of diet magazines. Through a practice-based and autoethnographic approach, she... view more
This article brings together a feminist sloth, a cultural activist practice and a Human Geography student. That student, the author of this article, shop-dropped a sloth sticker to protest the discriminatory body politics of diet magazines. Through a practice-based and autoethnographic approach, she tries to make sense of her own experience and of shopdropping as an activist practice. Drawing on the geographical concepts of place and movement, shopdropping is situated within the debates around subversive material cultures and creative interventions into places of consumption. Shopdroppers' disobedient things lend themselves to thinking through the connections between geography, art, and activism and for contemplating the effects of creative engagements with cultures of consumption.... view less
Keywords
consumption; subversion; creativity; intervention; protest
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Other Fields of Humanities
Free Keywords
shopdropping; material geographies; subversive material culture; disobedient things; consumption cultures
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 63-75
Journal
Soziologiemagazin : publizieren statt archivieren, 11 (2018) 2
Issue topic
Konsum und Verhalten in postmaterialistischen Gesellschaften
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3224/soz.v11i2.06
ISSN
2198-9826
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed