Shopping
Laurie Taylor hears about research by Emma Casey on a mall in Newcastle which revolutionised shopping. Also Katie Appleford on the loss of the shopping experience in Covid.
In 1986 in Gateshead the MetroCentre opened on the site of a former power station. Laurie Taylor talks to Emma Casey, Reader in Sociology at the University of York about a new study which charts the history and the impact of this mall which created space for more than 300 shops. They're joined by Katie Appleford, Senior Lecturer in Consumer Behaviour at University for the Creative Arts, London and researcher into UK mothers' shopping habits post-COVID. Has the promise of shopping, as represented by the Metro Centre, faltered in the wake of the pandemic?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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听- , Senior Lecturer in Consumer Behaviour at University for the Creative Arts, London
Shifts in UK Mothers鈥� shopping practices Post-COVID: Complex consumption and the loss of the shopping experience鈥� (Presentation at the British Journal of Sociology conference at the听 LSE in April 2024)
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Welcome to the shopping revolution! Commodifying selfhood and rearticulating consumer capitalism at the Metro Centre, Gateshead (published in Sociological Review March 2024)
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