The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality, and Gender in Commerce advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. Contributors address case studies in Brazil, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru to provide new insights in key concepts such as informality, materiality, and gender. These case studies work to understand which actors, and...

Das neueste Handy, das angesagte Event oder ein attraktives Profil bei StudiVZ: Persönlichkeit, Individualität und Status werden in unserer Gesellschaft maßgeblich über Konsumentscheidungen hergestellt. Populäre Marken und serielle Massenproduktion führen dazu, dass sich Konsum oft entlang eines vom Angebot vorgegebenen Mainstreams bewegt. Einige Menschen jedoch entfalten enorme Kreativität, um diesen zu unterlaufen: Die Bandbreite reicht von einer übertriebenen Annahme der Angebote, wie e...

Data has emerged as a key component that determines how interactions across the world are structured, mediated and represented. This book examines these new data publics and the areas in which they become operative, via analysis of politics, geographies, environments and social media platforms.By claiming to offer a mechanism to translate every conceivable occurrence into an abstract code that can be endlessly manipulated, digitally processed data has caused conventional reference ...