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The Trouble with Shopping: Discourses, Practices and Pedagogies of the Consumer-Citizen
Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006

Kaela Jubas The University of British Columbia


Keywords: Citizenship, consumption, globalization, informal adult learning

In this paper, I begin with an outline of modern citizenship and a review of feminist and other critical analyses of this concept. I then discuss the role of consumption as a marker of citizenship. The paper closes with the prospect of understanding shopping as a potential process of learning about the links between consumption, citizenship and globalization.

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