'Twin transformations': The Salvation Army's charity shops and the recreating of material and social value

Podkalicka, A; Meese, J

'Twin transformations': The Salvation Army's charity shops and the recreating of material and social value

Podkalicka, A Meese, J

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Citation:: European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2012, 15 (6), pp. 721 - 735
Issue Date:: 2012-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Podkalicka, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Meese, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1910-6166	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2012, 15 (6), pp. 721 - 735	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1367-5494	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/114682
dc.description.abstract	This article uses an empirically grounded historical case study of The Salvation Army's charity shops in Melbourne, Australia to review recent debates around the position and function of 'cultural intermediaries' beyond its traditional meaning and application to aesthetic sectors within cultural industries. Drawing on archival research, cultural observation and interviews with staff members, the article focuses on the stores' specific cultural identity engendered by the organization's history of remaking the value of discarded objects, alongside its development of individual human agency and context-based community links. Secondhand 'Salvos Stores' form a network of hybrid commercial and social enterprises that serves as a basis for developing a wider conceptualization of the notion 'cultural intermediary'. Following Cronin, Howells and McFall, we argue for an understanding which emphasizes their embedded, contextually reliant qualities, informed by the discourses, practices and networks of sociality. © The Author(s) 2012.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	European Journal of Cultural Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1367549412450635	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Communication & Media Studies	en_US
dc.title	'Twin transformations': The Salvation Army's charity shops and the recreating of material and social value	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	2001 Communication and Media Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/IKM and Digital Studies Program
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Abstract:

This article uses an empirically grounded historical case study of The Salvation Army's charity shops in Melbourne, Australia to review recent debates around the position and function of 'cultural intermediaries' beyond its traditional meaning and application to aesthetic sectors within cultural industries. Drawing on archival research, cultural observation and interviews with staff members, the article focuses on the stores' specific cultural identity engendered by the organization's history of remaking the value of discarded objects, alongside its development of individual human agency and context-based community links. Secondhand 'Salvos Stores' form a network of hybrid commercial and social enterprises that serves as a basis for developing a wider conceptualization of the notion 'cultural intermediary'. Following Cronin, Howells and McFall, we argue for an understanding which emphasizes their embedded, contextually reliant qualities, informed by the discourses, practices and networks of sociality. © The Author(s) 2012.

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