Circulating Stuff through Second-hand, Vintage and Retro Markets

Editorial
Culture Unbound Vol. 7 Editorial
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Martin Fredriksson and Naomi Stead


Introduction: Circulating Stuff on Second-hand, Vintage and Retro Markets
Staffan Appelgren and Anna Bohlin

With modernity, the circulation of used objects though donation, selling, barter and gifting has tended to take place in the shadow of increasingly dominating forms of industrial commodity production and consumption. Progress-oriented consumer modernity in the 1950s and 1960s and deregulated global markets in the 1980s and 1990s created conditions for great leaps forward for a linear consump-tion practice that in Sweden was strikingly captured by the motto ‘buy, use and discard’. Lately, however, the relatively unchallenged position of first cycle mass production and consumption has come under question, and throughout affluent countries in the Global North there is an emergent interest in various forms of circulation and reuse (ur inledning Culture Unboud #1 2015).

Charity Shops and the Imagined Futures of Objects: How Second-Hand Markets Influence Disposal Decisions when Emptying a Parent’s House
Melanie Lovatt

Reusing Textiles: on Material and Cultural Wear and Tear
Anneli Palmsköld

Vintage, the First 40 Years: The Emergence and Persistence of Vintage Style in the United States
Nancy L. Fische

Montreal Modern: Retro Culture and the Modern Past in Montreal
Kristian Handberg

Market Hydraulics and Subjectivities in the “Wild”: Circulations of the Flea Market
Niklas Hansson and Helene Brembeck

Yard Sales: A Book and an Exhibition: From Selling Off Objects to Redeeming Memory
Octave Debary

Growing in Motion: The Circulation of Used Things on Second-hand Markets
Staffan Appelgren and Anna Bohlin

Volume 7, Theme 1, 2015
Complete theme: Circulating Stuff through Second-hand, Vintage and Retro Markets

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Publicerad: 2015-03-17

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